First general manager of the Inter-Cooperative Council (ICC), the governing body of student cooperatives in Ann Arbor, Mich., who served the ICC for 34 years beginning in 1951. Buchele also helped to establish the North American Student Cooperative League (NASCL) and North American Student Cooperative Organization (NASCO). Before that he was active in the student cooperative movement on the University of Kansas campus.
This photograph of Jack Bloch was sent to his partner Max Gundy postcard-style, mounted in a paper frame that has been inscribed with a note. The photograph is black and white, and depicts Jack Bloch in his army uniform sitting next to a small alligator with palm trees and a body of water in the background.