L-R: Jim Mackinnon, Cheryl Powell-Fuller, Betty-Lin Fisher, Katie Byard

They mean business

I found this photo interesting for those of us who haven’t been to the third floor of the BJ for a few decades.

The people in the photo are Jim Mackinnon, Cheryl Powell-Fuller, Betty-Lin Fisher and Katie Byard, the BJ’s business writers.

The windows behind their heads are where Betty Jaycox once prowled in the Society Department, as it was called in those days. 

Between the heads of the three females is where Pat Englehart once ruled the State Desk. 

The blue-greenish stuff on the right of the photo is where the Sports Department once regaled the rest of the newsroom.

With scarcely 60 people left in the newsroom, that’s close to one-fourth the number when I retired in 1996.