Her presence recalled lunch tribute one year ago.

Sandi Levenson, Dave Boerner, Tom Moore and Harry Liggett

Printers Carl Nelson, Calvin Deshong, Gene McClellan, Al Hunsicker and Joe Catalano

Attendance at the Beacon Journal retrees lunch on Wednesday tied last month’s total of 10 which was the best attendance since the July 8 lunch in 2008 in memory of Sanford Levenson and Robert Pell. There were 28 at that lunch.

Levenson’s wife, Sandi, was among those attending this luncheon which was almost a year to the day retirees paid tribute to her husband and Pell.

Levenson worked for more than 35 years at the Akron Beacon Journal where he began as a reporter in 1966 and later served in a variety of roles including Beacon Magazine Editor and features writer. He retired as Copy Desk Editor. He then worked as News Editor of the Medina Gazette.

Pell began as a typesetter at the Barberton Herald, but within a few years moved to the Akron Beacon Journal, where he was a loyal employee for 37 years until his retirement in 1991.

On one side of the table this week at Papa Joe’s restaurant were the four most loyal lunch attenders: retired printers Calvin Deshong, Al Hunsicker, Gene McClellan and Carl Nelson. Joe Catalano, another retired printer, rounded out the total of five for printers.

News types at the lunch were Dave Boerner, Tim Hayes, Harry Liggett and Tom Moore. The news types could claim Sandi to bring their total to five to tie the attendance of printers.

Photos provided by Tom Moore. There was no photo of Tim Hayes.