Former copy editor Dick McLinden, who retired in 1990, got a couple of unwanted gifts just before Christmas. McLinden, who still lives in North Canton, told us in a phone conversation that he had cataract surgery on both eyes and then suffered a heart attack and had to have a pacemaker installed.
Dick, who probably is better known for his work in the Sunday department on the Beacon magazine, was working on the copy desk when computers first came to the BJ and had to learn three or four different systems as the newspaper grew into the technology. By the time he retired he was tired of learning new computer systems so he never gets on one now.
He did promise to send us some more information by U.S. mail--perhaps reminisce about those Beacon mag days and old friends.
Dick's wife died in 1999 just a year before they would have celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.
We will be watching for the mailman to deliver more info from Dick. We hope to lure him back to a computer just to catch up with some old BJ stuff.
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