Bonnie Bolden is among a platoon of West Virginia University School of Journalism graduates who came to the BJ.

Others included former BJ managing editor Scott Bosley, who is retired to Kalamazoo, Michigan; the late BJ sports columnist Tom Melody; former Society Features department editor Len Gross; and me, former assistant State Desk editor/newsroom electronics coordinator/television editor John Olesky, retired for 23 years and living in Tallmadge when I’m not traveling the country or the world.

Scott and Tom both are in the Keyser (WV) High School Hall of Fame. Len returned to Morgantown after leaving the BJ.

The late Bill Canterbury grew up in Wayne County, West Virginia, which is adjacent to Mingo County, where I had my first job after graduating from WVU at the Williamson Daily News, before winding up as a quiet BJ reporter.

Tom Moore worked at the Bluefield paper, in the town where John S. Knight was born before he immigrated at the age of 2 to Ohio, before coming to the BJ. He still lives in Akron.

Bonnie left Ol’ Blue Walls in 2006 to pursue other interests.