Update from Scott Bosley

That 1974 story on "Superdesk" brought a lot of good memories tumbling back! And it was fun to view on the blog the recent reunion photo of those 70's reporters in Columbus. What a crew of pros!

You asked for an update, so I'll give it a whirl:

After being JOA'd once (Detroit) and sold twice (New York's Journal of Commerce and The Post-Tribune in Gary), it seemed an appropriate time to move in another direction. And so I did in 1999 and am enjoying my work as executive director of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

This move deposited us back in the Washington area where Carol and I had lived for awhile in the 90s and left us near our remaining families in eastern West Virginia. We live in Bethesda, Md., and I work across the river in Reston, Va. Our offices are in the American Press Institute Building where, until he retired as API president, Bill Winter was our landlord.

Our family is grown up and has expanded a bit. Son Jeff is a labor lawyer and litigator in San Francisco for Chicago-based Winston & Strawn. He and his wife have two daughters, Devin (3) and Megan (5), who are of course very special for us. They just live too far away! A few weeks ago I was on business in California and spent the weekend keeping up with the girls in their Larkspur neighborhood. Great fun!

Daughter Julie, after working several years in sports marketing with the NBA and the Philadelphia 76ers, went back to college a few years ago, got an MBA and is working in corporate relations for Kellogg's in Battle Creek, Mich. A side benefit is that she travels a good bit, and sometimes in our direction. So we we see her more often than the California delegation.

Carol is active in our church but, sadly, has been most active in elder care for the past several years due to the declining health of her parents. Her dad died in January after a long battle with cancer and her mother is now in a nursing home.

Last year, I had the special privilege of introducing Tom Melody, into the Legion of Honor at our common alma mater, Keyser (WV) High School. And I had a wonderful xperience, 60 years after D-Day, of joining my brother and tracing the steps of our dad off Omaha Beach and through Normandy to the small town where was injured. We were there, in Mortain, for the town's celebration of the battle in which the town was liberated. A very heartwarming experience.

It is fun, always, to bump into BJ friends. Bill Hershey was a star panelist at a program on Ohio politics when our ASNE board met in Springfield last year, I was able to join Marilynn Marchione for breakfast when she came to Washington for a conference and, occasionally, in my work I cross paths with Al Fitzpatrick, Tim Smith and current BJ publisher Jim Crutchfield. Jim was a colleague in the Detroit days I shared with John Dunphy, Lalrry Froelich and Jim Ricci. And, of course, I really caught up on things a few years ago when Charlene Nevada came through town for a conference. She needs to come back soon so I'll know what's really going on in Akron.

All good wishes,

Scott