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Art Rooney II recalls family vacations, station wagon rides with Dad

No matter how busy he was handling matters with the Steelers or the National Football League, Dan Rooney always managed to find time for his family.

And it was quite a large family.

He was one of five children (all boys), and his wife, Patricia, was one of 10. Together, they had nine children — five girls and four boys.

Each summer, said Art Rooney II, the oldest of the nine kids, his mom and dad would take them on a vacation, sometimes to the beach at Spring Lake, N.J., other times on educational getaways to the Civil War battlefields or Ireland.