Friday is last day for business editor

Friday will be the last day for Beacon Journal business editor Dave Hertz. He is leaving the newspaper after 15 years to become a vice president in the media relations department of Dix & Eaton, a firm in Cleveland. He starts there Nov.1.

“I’ve had a good run at the Beacon Journal, and I have worked with a number of talented journalists.” Hertz writes. “I’ve learned a great deal. Now it is time for me to move on.”

Hertz started at the Beacon Journal in May 1991 and has been night metro editor, deputy business editor, region editor, business editor, metro editor, enterprise editor and then business editor again. He also spent five years previously at another Knight Ridder paper in Boca Raton so he really has 20 years of service.

Each departure of long-time employees brings back special memories. The Hertz leaving recalls a classic BJ office romance. There have been others, but this one was special. There was a crowd from the BJ when Beth Angela Thomas and David Ralph Hertz were married on Saturday, October 23, 1993 in the Akron Civic Theater.

Beth was at the newspaper from February 1991 to November 1995 in several jobs including page layout and design. She now works in the Communications Department at the Cleveland Clinic. Her title is managing editor.

So David and Beth will both be working in Cleveland, but they hope to continue living in Copley. You can e-mail 13th anniversary best wishes to them at Hertz23@aol.com