Trip down memory lane

BY JOHN OLESKY (1969-96)

When former Daily Kent Stater editor Saul Daniels pulled out a photo of the 1970 Stater staff to see how many people would be recognized after all these years, one thing stood out for me:

Hey, I worked with at least five of them!

In that 1970 Stater staff photo were Stu Feldstein, Terry Oblander, Paul Tople and Paula Stone Tucker. Chuck Ayers, who wasn’t in the photo, was part of the Stater staff, too.

After leaving the BJ, Feldstein worked for Business Week before becoming co-founder and president of SMR Research Corporation, which helps businesses scope out competitors. Oblander left the BJ for the Plain Dealer, retired and returned as the BJ’s features specialist for Medina County. Tople already was working part-time for the BJ and became full-time after his graduation. Paul has been a BJ photographer for more years than I can count. Ayers was a BJ cartoonist till his retirement and still does the “Crankshaft” comic strip. Zitrin, after entertaining the newsroom from his Sports Department desk with his antics, wound up at APB News as national correspondent. Tucker became a psychologist after her BJ State Desk days, mostly in California but, before her retirement, in Akron.

As for Saul Daniels, who was promoting 40th anniversary events tied to the May 4 day that National Guardsmen killed four and wounded nine other KSU students, his resume includes the Los Angeles Times and L.A. Examiner, Miami Herald, Orlando Sentinel and other newspapers.

To see photos of the BJ alums during their Daily Kent Stater days, and other pictures related to the 1970 Kent State tragedy, click on the headline.

Go to

www.may4.org

to see the schedule for the 40th anniversary observances.