BETH HERTZ ELECTED TO COPLEY-FAIRLAWN SCHOOL BOARD

 

Beth Thomas Hertz, former BJ page layout and design editor, was elected to the Copley-Fairlawn Board of Education. She finished 2^nd in the race for the 3 seats. Jim Borchik and Paula Lynn were re-elected.

Beth was at the BJ in 1991-1995, then free-lance writer and managing editor of the Cleveland Clinic’s Communications Department at CC’s Akron General Hospital.

Her husband, David Hertz, was at the BJ for 15 years as night Metro editor, deputy business editor, region editor, business editor, metro editor, enterprise editor and then business editor again after 5 years at another Knight-Ridder newspaper in Boca Raton, Florida. He became media relations vice president for Cleveland’s Dix & Eaton and, in 2018, became Cleveland Jewish Publication Company board chairman.

Cleveland Jewish News, a weekly which morphed into Cleveland Jewish Publication Company, was formed in 1964, succeeding the Jewish Independence, founded in 1906, and the Jewish Review & Observer, whose history began with the Hebrew Observer, founded in 1889.

 

After being located in Shaker Heights and University Heights, Cleveland Jewish Publication moved to its current location in Beachwood.

Beth and David were involved in the 1994 BJ Pulitzer for its Question of Color series.

Beth Angela Thomas and David Ralph Hertz were married on Saturday, October 23, 1993 in the Akron Civic Theater before a large BJ contingent. Beth was a “cute redhead copy editor,” Dave recalls, when they met at the BJ and began their office romance and their 28-year (so far) marriage.

They have two children, Alyssa Sandra Hertz and Joshua Daniel Hertz, who attended Copley-Fairlawn schools.

And they keep hospitals in business, Dave at Akron General for hip replacement and Beth for rotator cuff surgery.