Dave Hertz and Beth Thomas Hertz, who met at the BJ, are celebrating their 25^th wedding anniversary today.

Or, at Beth puts it:

“25 years ago today I married a cute guy who I’d met while working the evening shift at the Akron Beacon Journal. Good decision! As David famously wrote in a poem for the occasion, “the joys of years together start with the faith of youth” - so true!”

David describes the “cute redhead copy editor” Beth as “my utterly fascinating and captivating wife.”

Beth and David seem to have an acute case of the cutes. That's cute.

They were married at the Civic Theater with an audience filled with BJ co-workers.

David went from 15 years at the BJ as night metro editor, deputy business editor, region editor, business editor, metro editor and enterprise editor to vice president in the media relations department of Dix& Eaton in Cleveland. He came to the BJ after 5 years in Knight-Ridder’s Boca Raton, Florida newspaper.

 

Beth was at the BJ from 1991 to 1995 in several jobs including page layout and design. She became managing editor in the Communications Department at the Cleveland Clinic. After six years, she left to be a full-time freelance writer.

 

They live in Copley. Their children are Alyssa and Josh.