HERTZ FAMILY ENJOYS MONTH-LONG REUNION IN OHIO

 

             DAVE AND BETH ON WEDDING ANNIVERSARY AND ON THEIR WEDDING DAY

Month-long reunion for Hertz family 

Former BJ page layout and design editor and Copley School Board member Beth Thomas Hertz and husband and BJ night Metro editor, deputy business editor, region editor, business editor, metro editor, enterprise editor and then business editor again for about two decades enjoyed a month-long visit from daughter Alyssa Hertz.

They took Alyssa to the airport for a flight to Tampa where she will spend a few weeks at Norwegian headquarters before cruising in the Caribbean and, all summer, cruising Iceland, Norway, Belgium, Holland and England.

Beth reports: “Son Joshua went back to college so we are empty nesters again!”

I know the feeling. I’ve been fortunate in that only 2 of my grandchildren live outside Ohio, where I’ve lived for nearly 70 years – Dr. Dylan in Wisconsin and MonnieLynn in the Carolina. 3 children, 5 grandchildren, 5 of 7 great-grandchldren are within 30 miles of my Tallmadge home.

Among adults with at least one living parent or adult child, 74.8% have their nearest parent or adult child within 30 miles, and 35.5% hav all parents and adult children living that close. 

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.

After the BJ and another Knight newspaper in Boca Raton, Florida, Dave became media relations vice president for Cleveland’s Dix & Eaton and, in 2018, became Cleveland Jewish Publication Company board chairman.

Cleveland Jewish News is a weekly created in 1964 that became Cleveland Jewish Publication Company in Beachwood.

 

Beth and Dave were involved in the 1994 BJ Pulitzer for its Question of Color series. Beth Angela Thomas and David Ralph Hertz were married in 1993 in the Akron Civic Theater before a large BJ contingent.

Beth was a “cute redhead copy editor,” Dave recalled, when they met at the BJ and began their office romance and their marriage.

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