Pam McCarthy: journalist, teacher then and now

Former BJ staffer Pam McCarthy retired May 31 after 33 years of teaching and, she says, 35.88 hours on the state pension systems.

This provided us an opportunity to reprint a favorite old photo: A gathering in the back room of Jack Horner 's in 1974 for the wake of the old State Desk which was disbanded.

In front is Pam McCarthy, Standing In the back is Cathy Strong who now lives in New Zealand. Caught in the middle (from left) are Kathy Goforth, now in New York City, Kathy Fraze who is still at the BJ as copy desk chief, retired TV editor John Olesky, then assistant State Desk editor retired since 1996, and the late Jan Clark. Pat Englehart was State Editor. He died Oct 29, 1995 in Ocala, FL, at the age of 70.

Pam retired from North Canton Hoover High School after 22 years of advising The Viking Views. For the past don't-know-how-many years, the kids have been publishing a 40-page newsmagazine 12 times a year. This year, due to money matters, there were 9 print issues and 2 web-only issues, published on the asne-sponsored website.

All 11 issues plus the senior color supplement were also published in PDF format on the school website at www.northcanton.sparcc.org/~vv1nc

The ASNE website is at www.my.highschooljournalism.org/oh/northcanton/hhs

On the cover of the last print issue of this year -- issue 11 -- students asked Pam to choose her favorite covers from the past 22 years.

“I'm having it framed for my home office,” Pam writers. :” It's been a nice ride. Now I get to re-invent myself.”

Send your well wishes to
pam.mccarthy@gmail.com
1006 Sunset Blvd. SW
North Canton, OH 44720