23 ex-BJers went to PD. Any more?

When I returned from 8 days in Michigan with Paula as we visited my friend from first grade in tiny Monongah, West Virginia, I got an email from Roger Mezger updating information on BJ folks who switched to the Plain Dealer.

Donna Robb Miller, an intern at the BJ, is with the PD.

And Desiree Hicks, who left the BJ's Washington bureau for the PD's Washington bureau, is no longer with the PD, Roger emails.

Cliff Pinckard and Traci James, two of the last people that Stuart Warner hired at the BJ for the copy desk, both left for the PD shortly after Stuart left. Cliff is still at the PD on the sports copy desk. Traci, an Akron native, moved on to Philadelphia.

So that makes 23, including the 6 no longer at the PD (17 at the PD today were once at the BJ). They are:

Gone from the PD, too:

Stuart Warner
Mary Vanac
Bob Paynter
Terry Oblander
Desiree Miller
Traci James

Still at the PD:

Regina Brett
Mark Dawidziak
Reggie Fields
John Funk
Sheryl Harris
John Horton
Tim Leonard
Butch Maier
Roger Mezger
Donna Robb Miller
Cliff Pinchard
Terry Pluto
Don Rosenberg
Debra Adams Simmon
Mary Lou Sneyd
Debbie Van Tassel
Brian Windhorst

If anyone knows of others who fit the BJ-to-PD category, email me at

jo4wvu@sbcglobal.net

Or you can add the information by clicking on "Comment" for this post. I'll add the names when I see your comment.

Thanks.

John Olesky