CATCHING UP WITH ARNIE ROSENBERG

 

Former BJ Deputy Metro Editor Arnie Rosenberg posted a lovely tribute to his wife, Fran Sherman, on her birthday:

“Happy birthday to my wonderful, beautiful wife . . . who puts up with my “crap,” as the greeting card said! I've got so much to be thankful for, but nothing more than her good health and terrific recovery from surgery. We started celebrating two weeks ago and will keep it going until at least this weekend! You're the best!"

Glad to read about Fran’s recovery from her surgery.

These days Arnie is Treasure Coast Newspapers Editor.

Also after leaving the BJ Arnie was GIE Publishers editor in chief, Denver Post former assistant City Editor, Sun Sentinel Metro editor for Palm Beach County.

His resume includes Sun News editor, Painesville Telegraph reporter.

The Beachwood High and Ohio University graduate lives in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

One photo shows Arnie and Fran in Colombia.

 

 

WOW! WHAT A NASTY RESPONSE TO AN UNFAVORABLE ART REVIEW!

 Think it’s easy being an art critic?

Hannover state opera house ballet director Marco Goecke, unhappy with dance critic Wiebke Huester’s review, smeared animal feces on her face!

Don Rosenberg and Elaine Guregian never told me they ran into this kind of problem, even from the a--holes who got Don removed from his beat because they didn't like his reviews!

This incident has so many comebacks, most of them not in good taste. I'll leave that to others who are cruder than me.

Although it does remind me of the chant I hear in Mountaineer Field after EVERY WVU game, even when my alma mater is NOT playing Pitt, whose name rhymes with the distasteful chant that the German ballet director brought to my mind.

ART CULLISON'S GRANDSON PASSES AWAY. ART HELPED REAR HIM AFTER GRANDSON'S MOTHER PASSED AWAY

 

Former BJ copy desk

Whiz grandson passes

 

Art Cullison’s grandson Robert Lawrence Cullison, Jr. passed away.

 

Art and wife Helen helped raise their grandson along with Robert’s father Robert Cullison Sr. after Robert Jr.’s mother passed away.

 

Robert Jr.’s obituary:

 

Robert Lawrence Cullison

COPLEY - Robert Lawrence Cullison Jr passed away on January 27,2023.

 

He was preceded in death by the grandparents that raised him, Ardent and Helen Louise Cullison, and his father Robert Cullison Sr.

 

MARLA RIDENOUR & MIZELL STEWART HAVE AN UNPLANNED REUNION IN CALIFORNIA

 

Marla Ridenour, covered the Cleveland Browns for the BJ, was vacationing in a Santa Barbara County and in a grocery line in Cambria, California, when she heard a voice behind her say:

“Marla?

“Mizell.”

Marla said:

“It was Mizell Stewart. He said he’d been there for a month and was leaving the next day. Mizell and I go back to our Dayton Daily News days, where I worked from 1981-90. Talk about a small world.”

Mizell was at Dayton before he came to the BJ as managing editor in 2006, reuniting with Marla whose career began at the BJ in 1999. Twinsburg native and Bowling Green graduate Mizell began his newspaper career at the Springfield News-Sun.

Dayton, Akron, Tallahassee Democrat, back to the BJ, Evansville Courier & Express, corporate stops at E.W. Scripps Company, Journal Media Group and Gannett/USA TODAY network.

Mizell doesn’t have a suitcase large enough for all his travel stickers to fit on them.

While Mizell changes jobs more often than he changes underwear he stays with one woman. Wife Valerie and Mizell have been married for 3 decades, give or take a few years in either direction, and live in West Chester Township, which is near Middletown and Hamilton and Cincinnati.

Marla went from the Dayton Daily News and Mizell to the Columbus Dispatch before arriving at the BJ in 1999.

She has covered the Browns, the Indians, the Reds and  the Bengals. And made Hall of Fames in Ohio AND Kentucky media.

Marla even added a 2018 Cleveland Press Club first place for an OBITUARY -- on legendary football coach Ara Parseghian who brought national titles to Notre Dame in 1966 and 1973 and is in the College Football Hall of Fame.

Marla accepted a Gannett buyout last November which ended her BJ and newspaper career.