Gresocks enjoy 50th-anniversary honeymoon

Retired Beacon Journal printer Dick Gresock and wife Lorraine traveled more than 5,200 miles in September to national parks and for other Western sightseeing for their honeymoon. In their case, it was their 50th-anniversary honeymoon.

The Gresocks, who live in Medina, were married June 20, 1959 in Indiana, Pennsylvania. They drove to Yellowstone and Bryce national parks, into the Black Hills of South Dakota and Chief Crazy Horse, the world’s largest mountain carving, and wherever two weeks would take them.

Their children are Marie (Robert) Ellium of Garrettsville, Rich (Paula) Gresock of Medina, John (Teresa) Holland Gresock of Medina and Kathy (Jeff) Yarian of Fairview Park. Lorraine and Dick have 10 grandchildren. One of their sons still works at the Beacon Journal.

I was electronics coordinator for the BJ newsroom when Dick was Composing electronics coordinator Ken Wright’s right-hand man. We did a lot of formatting in those days to make the newsroom computers sing and dance and spit out fancy runarounds, and created templates so that repetitive work could be handled with a few keystrokes. Later technology improvements made it possible for anyone who could type to do projects in minutes that once took us hours to figure out.

Dick was at the monthly BJ Alums lunch today at Papa Joe’s on Akron-Peninsula Road at Portage Trail Extension. So were retired printers Cal Deshong, who will be 91 years old next month, Al Hunsicker and Carl Nelson. And newsroom escapees Dave Boerner, John Olesky and Tom Moore, who will heading for Florida in a week to join former BJ Sports Editor Tom Giffin for the Roy Hobbs World Series for guys who are never too old to play baseball.

The 2009 Roy Hobbs World Series will be held Saturday, October 24, through Sunday, Nov. 22, in Fort Myers. The young-at-heart guys play on the same fields that the Boston Red Sox and Minnesota Twins use for spring training. They come from a ton of states and some countries. Tom handles the daily newspaper about their activities, including feature stories.

As usual, there was plenty of laughter among the BJ Alums lunch bunch. And information about PSAs. Unless you’re of Medicare age, you probably don’t know what PSAs are. They aren’t Public Service Announcements and it’s a guy thing.

You should try it if you want to have fun. The BJ Alums lunch, not the PSAs. Just show up at 1 p.m. on the second Wednesday of every month at Papa Joe’s.

Click on the headline to see photos of those at the BJ Alums lunch.