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.
A painting by German impressionist artist Walter Sickert that depicts his interpretation of Whitechapel murders' killer Jack the Ripper. Some investigators suspected (and continue to suspect) that Sickert could have been Jack the Ripper, though no DNA evidence exists to prove his involvement in the case.