THE WARNERS AT AKRON WOMAN'S CITY CLUB SEPTEMBER 28

Former BJ editors Stuart Warner and wife Deb Van Tassel Warner will be the speakers at the Akron Woman’s City Club, 732 East Exchange Street, at noon Tuesday, September 28.

The subject will be the book they edited and produced, “Akron’s Daily Miracle: Reporting the News in the Rubber City.”

Stuart came to the Beacon Journal after 10 years with Knight-Ridder's Lexington newspaper. He was at the BJ from 1979 until 1999 before switching to the PD.  

Deb is a former BJ Features Editor and PD and Arizona editor.

The luncheon costs $20, payable when you show up at the event.

To make a reservation call Valerie at the Akron Woman’s City club at (330) 762-6261.

The book, naturally, will be available for you to purchase. 

SUSAN MANGO CURTIS KEEPS STACKING UP HER HONORS

 

Susan Mango Curtis, former BJ assistant managing editor, is going to need to enlarge her trophy room.

Saturday, August 27 she received the National Association of Black Journalists-Visual Task Force Legacy Award during the group’s convention auction.

Mango’s response:

“I am honored and humbled. It’s a blessing to have served as a member of such an creatively talented group of visual journalists.”

 

In 2020 Mango was named Black Journalists’ Education Journalist of the year.

In 2019 she received the Society for News Design’s  Lifetime Achievement Award.

Before leaving the BJ for in 1997 for become associate professor of visual arts at Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University  Mango was involved in the “Question of Color” project that led to one of the 4 BJ Pulitzers (JSK got a 5^th). The late BJ State Desk editor Pat Engelhart graduated from Northwestern before his DeNobil days at the BJ.

Mango is a 1981 graduate of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts and a 1977 graduate of Great Mills High School in Lexington Park, Maryland.

Her career includes art director for the National Rifle Association, where she designed American Marksman magazine.

If you want to personally congratulate Mango her e-mail is mangocurtis@northwestern.edu  and her phone number is (847) 508-6057.

A LOVELY REUNION FOR PAULA AND JOHN IN OHIO

 

  

Paul Stone Tucker visited John Olesky in Ohio for 3 weeks in August.

Paula rescued John from his misery when John’s wife, My Mona Lisa as he called her, passed away. For 17 years.

Paula has a home in The Villages, Florida.

John still lives in the condo they jointly purchased in 2006 and lived together in Talmadge.

Paula left The Villages on July 30 and arrived at John’s condo on August 1. She left for the 2-day auto drive to Florida on Sunday, August 22.

Paula and John made good use of the time.

They had dinner in Sugarcreek at Der Dutchman Restaurant, as they have several times before. After visiting the Atwood Lake A-Frame owned by Paula’s parents where she spent her childhood summers.

They walked through Gorge Park in Cuyahoga Falls, even though they had to crawl under a 100-foot toppled tree that blocked the footpath.

They visited the Beaver Pond in Summit County Metro parks and ran into Ranger Bob, Paula’s brother-in-law.

They hiked around the lake in Munroe Falls.

Paula and John golfed together at Mulligan Springs in Portage County, which shares a border with Tallmadge’s Summit County.

They visited Paula’s sister, Janet, at her Lakeside getaway on Lake Erie.

Paula visited all of her siblings: Tom and wife ‘Rae in the former Tamsin Lake area turned into housing allotments; Janet and husband Bob in Boston Heights; Michael and wife Ann in Silver Lake; and Raymond and wife Mary in Akron.

Paula and John also attended the Akron Porchroker event where Raymond and his barbershop quartet sang. The crowds were so thick that they had to walk 11 blocks from where they parked their car, the nearest empty parking place to the porch where Raymond and his quartet sang. Musical groups performed from porches on residential homes in block after block of the city. It’s an extremely popular annual event.

And, by driving 200 miles each way Paula spent her August 20 birthday with her son, Patrick, who drove from New York City for the Bear State Park rendezvous in Pennsylvania.

At Paula’s suggestion John and Paula looked at John’s My Mona Lisa photo album of his late wife and their extended family.

Paula and My Mona Lisa never competed with each other for John’s affections. They were bookends to his love life.

Paula took the sunshine back to Florida with her. But it was lovely while it lasted.