More media job losses in 2019 than in 4 straight bad years

7,700 people have lost their media jobs in 2019. In 4 years (2014-17), there were 5,000 media job losses.

That makes 2019 a calamity for media employment. 2019 sent 54% more media workers onto the streets than a terrible, 4-year period.

Gannett, BuzzFeed, Verizon, McClatchy and Disney are major job shit-canners.

Gannett: 207 jobs, December; 400 jobs, January 23.

      Go to https://www.businessinsider.com/2019-media-layoffs-job-cuts-at-buzzfeed-huffpost-vice-details-2019-2  

for the full article.

Mark Bianculli, son of former BJ TV critic David Bianculli, is co-producer/writer of “Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector,” a crime series that NBC will premiere as a 2020 midseason replacement.

Russell Hornsby plays Lincoln Rhyme, a retired paraplegic forensic criminologist who continues his work remotely to help NYPD detectives, played by Arielle Kebbel and Michael Imperioli, solve cases.

The TV series is based on “The Bone Collector” novel by Jeffery Deaver.

Mark has been making his mark (sorry about the pun) as a writer and, now, a writer-producer.

As for his father, David Bianculli, he tormented me repeatedly when I was his Television Editor at Ol’ Blue Walls, entertaining the newsroom with his antics that included dancing on his desk as deadline approached. Brilliant writer. Not so special at meeting deadlines.

David is the founder and editor-in-chief of the website TVWorthWatching.com, and an associate professor of TV and film history at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey.

David skipped into the BJ newsroom from the Fort Lauderdale News-Sentinel, where David spend his official childhood, then danced into the Philadelphia Inquirer and New York Post before bouncing off to the New York Daily News and then sauntering away into the academic world. The University of Florida graduate also has been contributing to National Public Radio’s “Fresh Air” for a zillion years.

I have had extraordinary luck during my 42-year newspaper career. Hall of Famers crossed my path regularly.

As Television Editor, I began with Bianculli as we gave birth to Channels, the now-defunct weekly television guide that ushered the BJ into the computer technology age and the expansion of cable and TV that rivaled the Big Bang of the universe.

When David headed for bigger things in Philly and New York, Mark Dawidziak, the man from Tennessee by way of New York City, became my next TV critic.

Mark since has written more books than I can count, about Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, Columbo, etc. and, I think, rivals Hal Holbrook in doing Twain for his Mostly Literary Theatre Company. And still is a pop culture critic, at the PD.

Next came Rich Heldenfels, who in the beginning refused to change his byline to that name from his R.D. Heldenfels when he came to 44 E. Exchange Street.

Rich – I’m allowed to call him that now – retired from the BJ but still collects checks for answering TV trivia questions that are distributed by Tribune News Service.

When I was second in command at the Dayton Daily News I worked under legendary Sports Editor Si Burick, who was named sports columnist of the year in Ohio so often that they should have just named the trophy after him.

Much like my 20-year Blue Room munch partner, Bob Dyer, has done with the Ohio Columnist of the Year award.

At the St. Petersburg Times I got ushered into the office of owner/publisher/everything Nelson Poynter, along with all the other recent hires. He was a big deal in newspapers, too.

But Poynter, in my mind, stands in a far more giant shadow in John S. Knight, probably the best newspaper owner in American history.

And I was hired by Ben Maidenburg, another giant, even though Ben knew I had been fired in Dayton, after 13 years, for my union activities. Ben’s advice: “Pick a side, and stick with it.”

But I disgress.

This is about David Bianculli’s son, Mark Bianculli, who may well make his father look like a piker when it comes to careers. And that’s what every father wants, including me, for his children to far excel what their parents have achieved.

OopS!

I guess my son and grandson, who attended the game, lied to me.

They said the Browns beat the Dolphins, 41-24.

Baker Mayfield is surprised, too, that our Ohio heroes lost to the two-victories Miami bottom-dwellers.

From Ben Maidenburg’s grave I  can hear the outraged shouting:

“Doesn’t anyone edit this newspaper any more!”

Those who worked at the BJ in Ben and JSK’s days were familiar with that outburst. It helped make the BJ a great newspaper.

Maybe someone in Austin, Texas is writing the BJ headlines these days.

 

Ben’s obituary, for those who came late to the party:

"Hollering the paper" is how Ben Maidenburg described his first newspaper job - hawking the Marion Chronicle on the streets of his adopted Indiana hometown as a schoolboy in the 1920s.

Lessons learned early followed Maidenburg throughout the loftier days of his long journalism and civic career in Akron, Ohio, where he lived most of his life until his death in 1986.

Maidenburg hollered for higher quality and more accuracy in his newspaper, The Beacon Journal - sometimes even berating a miscreant reporter or editor in the middle of the newsroom.

He hollered for jobs, jobs and more jobs in Akron - and landed them in impressive numbers, for which he won the nickname "Mr. Akron."

For him, hollering worked. Indeed, one of his admirers and employers, the late John S. Knight, said about Maidenburg, "Ben was a feisty, loud-talking individual with tons of energy and a generally combative attitude."

But there also was a quieter side to Maidenburg, a side Knight called "warm and compassionate."

He was quieter when he stepped in - as executive editor and publisher of the Beacon Journal - to personally mediate, and resolve, labor disputes between union and management in Akron.

And he was quieter when he dug into his own pocket to put some poor students through the University of Akron, when he worked to rehabilitate ex-convicts and when he led an effort to get a swimming pool in a black neighborhood when others would not.

Maidenburg undoubtedly took his combination of assertiveness and quiet effectiveness from his parents, Russian immigrants who fled czarist oppression in 1900, first to Germany and later to Jewish communities in New York City and Philadelphia.

Philadelphia was the city of Maidenburg's birth, in 1910, but soon the family moved to America's Midwest, to Marion. There, David Maidenburg (Ben was the only member of the family to spell his last name with a "u") sold dry goods and eventually opened a store in Gas City, a smaller town outside Marion.

After hawking papers, Maidenburg went for the big money of the newsroom -writing amateur baseball games for $1 a game. When the paper's sports editor hurriedly left town amid rumors of a romance gone wrong, Maidenburg, while still in high school, became the new sports editor.

After high school, he briefly attended Butler University, but when financial aid fell through, he went back to Marion.

He was not, however, the kind to settle in for the rest of his life. Soon, he was writing to a dozen papers, asking for a job. The Des Moines Register said yes, and Maidenburg accepted even though it meant a $12 a week cut in pay.

Nine years later, Maidenburg was Knight's choice for a prized new job: editor of the Sunday paper that resulted from the merger of the Beacon Journal and the Times-Press.

"He was never content," his obituary story in the Beacon Journal said, "for 'good enough' and constantly strived for the unusual, the original, the story that would raise eyebrows or stir the emotions"

Knight again called on Maidenburg to instill that never-good-enough attitude at other Knight papers - the Miami Herald, the Detroit Free Press and Chicago Daily News.

But he always came back to Akron. In 1948, he became the Beacon Journal's executive editor and occasionally he hollered. He would stride into the newsroom and yell, "Who the blankety blank wrote this headline?" His defenders and there were many, saw his style as intellectually honest and saying "what he thought."

From his executive editor's s spot, Maidenburg deepened his foray into charity work - the United Fund, Akron Chamber of Commerce, St. Thomas Hospital and Medical Center, Akron Jewish Center, Citizens for Progress and many more.

"He was an editor and community activist, and he made no apologies for the dual role, even when it caused concern, conflict and hairpulling within the ranks of his reporters and editors at the paper," the Beacon Journal said in an editorial at the time of his death.

"His era may have been a different one, but Ben Maidenburg saw his role as larger that simply being editor of a newspaper. If there was a leadership vacuum in town or during consideration of a particular project, he eagerly filled it and usually with skill and success."

It was no shock when Maidenburg became publisher in 1963, but it was when he announced his retirement in 1975 to become president of the Knight Foundation.

Ill health - his and his wife Jeanne's - soon struck, and in 1978 Maidenburg retired from the foundation.

But even in his final years, he was active, quietly but influentially, in charity and economic development work in Akron. The time for holding was past.

Maidenburg is survived by a daughter, Suzan Shoshan; two sons, David and Ben Jr.; and two brothers, Milton and Frank Maidenburg.

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Gannett/GateHouse print loss surpasses national average

BJ drop an exception, better than national average

GateHouse Media and Gannett, which have merged for $1.2 billion, are losing print circulation faster than the national average and 10% are declining at twice the national rate or worse, according to a Business Journal analysis.

The national average is bad enough: 12% a year. But GateHouse/Gannett plunge even faster. One “bright” spot, by comparison: The BJ is losing 10.7%, less than the national average, from 2017 to 2019.

This is the BJ’s parent company, which has 260 newspapers . . . all going down the drain together in print circulation.

So plans are to trim $300 million in costs. Guess what that means for newsroom employment.

To read the full artice, go to https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2019/11/22/most-gannett-papers-are-losing-print-circulation.html

BJ Pulitzer stolen

The BJ’s Pulizer for the 1994 “A Question of Color” series was stolen from the enclosed display case at 44 E. Exchange Street while the BJ newsroom moved to its new office on the 7^th floor of the AES Building on 388 S. Main Street, previously a Goodrich factory.

The theft happened between Tuesday and late Thursday morning. Work crews were dismantling desks and other equipment to clear the Exchange Street building, which is owned by the Beacon Journal’s former owner, Black Press.

The BJ has 4 Pulitizers:

• In 1968 for Editorial Writing by John S. Knight for his Editor’s Notebook weekly columns opposing the Vietnam War and defending the public’s right to protest.

• In 1971 for General Local Reporting for coverage of the National Guard shootings that killed four students and wounded nine at Kent State University on May 4, 1970.

• In 1987 for General News Reporting for “The Goodyear War” when Sir James Goldsmith conducted a greenmail takeover of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

 

• In 1994 for Public Service for “A Question of Color,” a series on race relations and cultural awareness.

Newspaper becomes non-profit charity

The Salt Lake Tribune has been designated a non-profit public charity by the IRS.

Supports can make tax deductible contributions to keep the Tribune afloat.

Owner Paul Huntsman gave up his sole ownership to turn the newspaper into a non-profit. From cash cows to non-profit. The sad story of newspapers in America.

Some incredible characters and talent walked through Ol' Blue Walls

Kerry Clawson in new newsroom with view of old BJ tower visible from the window

The Beacon Journal moved from 44 E. Exchange Street, its home since 1938, about two blocks southwest to the top floor of the AES Building in the former B.F. Goodrich complex at 388 S. Main St. in downtown Akron.

These are photos of the new digs on the seventh floor.

The old BJ building went up on the site of another razed landmark, the German-American Music Hall, where Akron rubber worker Clark Gable had his first speaking role in a play.

Mark Price tells me that the new building has some blue walls so the newsroom went from Ol’ Blue Walls to New Blue Walls.

Those who are gone wax eloquently about the Good Ol’ Days. Those who remain will continue to do the good journalism that the BJ is known for.

 You don’t get four Pulitzers by accident.

Giffels wins Ohioana Book Award

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David Giffels

ormer BJ columnist David Giffels won the Ohioana Book Award for non-fiction for his book, “Furnishing Eternity,” about building a casket with his father. The Ohio Library Association sponsors the awards.

Another former BJ columnist, Thrity Umrigar, was a finalist for “The Secrets Between Us” in the fiction category.

Former BJ reporter Ted Gup won an Ohioana Award in 2011 for “A Secret Gift: How One Man’s Kindness and a Trove of Letters Revealed the Hidden Story of the Great Depression.”

The 2019 Awards were handed out October 17.

The Ohioana Library is in Columbus.

Back row (from left):

Dan Roese, Mark Price, Scott Babbo, Craig Webb, Joe Thomas, Jeff Lange, Doug Livingston, Dan Kadar.

 
Second row from back:

Kerry Clawson, Karen Schiely, Katie Byard, Mike Shearer, Scot Fagerstrom, Darrin Werbeck, Malcolm Abram

Third row from back:

Kim Drezdon, Cheryl Powell, Emily Mills, Betty Lin-Fisher, Stephanie Warsmith, Jennifer Pignolet, Phil Masturzo, Alan Ashworth

 
Seated:

Yvonne Bruce Webb, Jim Mackinnon, Mike Cardew

Not in photo:

Bob Dyer, Amanda Garrett, Mary Kay Quinn, Kim Profant

Rich Stallsmith, George Thomas, Marla Ridenour, Ryan Lewis

Michael Beaven, Nate Ulrich, all the sports henchers

Apollo taking over Cox TV stations and Ohio newspapers

Apollo Global Management has purchased a majority stake in Cox Media Group’s TV stations, including WHIO-TV in Dayton, and Cox newspapers the Dayton Daily News and the Springfield News-Sun and Journal-News.

TV stations in Atlanta, Boston, Seattle, Orlando, Charlotte, Pittsburgh, Memphis, Tulsa and Jacksonville are included in the takeover.

The price wasn’t announced but who thinks that Apollo Global isn’t going to be running the show?

Based in New York, Apollo specializes in buying distressed companies and profiting from streamlining, reorganizing and downsizing. With more than $300 billion in assets, Apollo has a lot of clout.

Apollo’s leaders were with Drexel Burnham Lambert before that acquisitions firm collapsed about six months before Apollo was founded.

Kathryn Johnson, legendary civil rights reporter for the Associated Press, passed away Wednesday, October 23.

The Columbus, Georgia native began her coverage of Martin Luther King, Jr. when he was a little-known Baptist preacher from Atlanta.

Her book, “My Time With the Kings,” was

published in 2016. Both Martin and Coretta Scott King gave her access that other media did not get.

She left the AP in 1979 to be an associate editor at U.S. News & World Report. In 1988, she joined CNN, and stayed there until 1999.

To read the article, click on

https://www.apnews.com/1d3621711b3f4035bda110c6a33fe2b8?fbclid=IwAR1e5GUcJRDCgzrd5Tnp80ldoC1zQXVk_4e2Dh8NJFuRvFuo6CW6LDuTtj8

Trexler interview in Cleveland Scene

The Cleveland Scene magazine has an interesting interview of former BJ crime and courts reporter Phil Trexler.

After 16 years at 44 E. Exchange Street, Phil is executive producer with Tom Meyer’s investigative team at WKYC-Channel 3 in Cleveland. He began the Cleveland TV gig on May 4.

Best quote from Phil: “My goal is to be a reporter and I’m doing that here” at WKYC.

Trexler is no stranger to television. He discussed the Painesville murder case on CNN’s “Nancy Grace Show.” Kevin Knoefel, 43, was convicted of guilty having sex with his foster daughter, Sabina Zunich, and convincing her to kill his wife, Lisa Knoefel, for nearly $785,000 in insurance money while Knoefel was elsewhere.

Phil also keeps busy writing books about baseball, such as “Ballparks, Yesterday & Today” and “Cleveland Indians, Yesterday and Today.”

To read Doug Brown’s interview of Phil, go to

https://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/a-longtime-akron-reporter-joins-wkyc-up-here-in-cleveland/Content?oid=4590549&fbclid=IwAR3FNi8vb4rqGtd73DsNsM8lrw1CLC87Zy5f6ajhbP9_ObItOMmkXzCD2zU

To read Doug Brown’s interview of Phil.

1970s BJ State Desk reporter Paula Stone Tucker won a silver award in the Florida Writers Association’s Royal Palm Literary Awards for her book, “Surviving: A Kent State Memoir.”

Paula was 30 yards in front of the Guard when they fired on May 4, 1970, killing 4 and wounding 9.

Her book is available on Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle versions at https://www.amazon.com/Paula-Stone-Tucker/e/B07YGSL7L8 .

From the Writers Association release:

“The award was announced at FWA’s recent four-day annual conference in Altamonte Springs, Florida. This annual competition, which received 513 qualified submissions, was RPLA’s eighteenth.

 

“This is the most competitive RPLA we’ve ever had,” said Chris Coward, RPLA chairperson. “The RPLA administrative team, judges, and entrants did an amazing job.”

In all, the competition covered 28 adult genres and 5 Youth genres, with published and unpublished entries considered separately.

“A win at any level can help any writer market their manuscript or published book, and the detailed feedback from the judges is invaluable for all entrants,” Ms. Coward said.

“I was thrilled to win, especially since this is my first book. I appreciate all the help and support I got from RPLA and my own Oxford, FL. Writer’s Critique Group.”

 

 

Why watchdogs are important

Even if they aren’t free

GateHouse Media, which owns the BJ and nearly every newspaper still breathing in America, in its frenzy to cut costs, also has dispensed with watchdogs.

There are no Hal Frys to make sure the words and grammar are accurate. There are no local photo editors to make sure that there’s nothing embarrassing in the pictures.

Hell, there are about 30 people at the BJ trying to do the work that 250 people once did in the JSK heyday.

Austin, Texas calls the shots. And Austin is not in Akron.

So the BJ ran a page one photo with the 2020 Rock and Rock Hall of Fame nominees . . . and a photo of Motorhead band members Phil Campbell, Lemmy Kilmister and Mikkey Dee.

But there was no watchdog to check Campbell’s fingers. Particularly the middle finger in both his hands.

The traditional FU insult gesture that some trace to the early Mafia days.

So the BJ had to apologize. It would have been better to pay a watchdog to check out Campbell’s middle fingers.

Or, as I think Ben Maidenburg famously said in one of his outbursts after checking the first edition of a BJ: “Doesn’t anybody edit this paper any more?”

Campbell has been in the controversy spotlight before. He was incensed that Motorhead founder the late Lemmy Kilmister got so much credit for everything written for the English heavy metal rock band formed in 1975 no matter who wrote it.

The name "Motörhead" is a reference to users of the drug amphetamine.

Campbell, Kilmister and Dee were in the final Motorhead lineup in 2015.

Motorhead members over the years included guitarists Larry Wallis, Eddie Clarke, Brian Robertson, Michael Burston and drummers Lucas Fox, Pete Gill and Phil Taylor.

Printed newspaper headed for museum?

GateHouse denies a Poynter report that the print edition of USA Today, a staple in America for four decades because it is printed in locations all over the country simultaneously, will be phased out.

Gannett owns USA Today. GateHouse, which seemingly controls about every newspaper south of the New York Times and Washington Post in America, is absorbing Gannett with the help of a $1.8 billion loan.

This spring at larger circulation regionals, Gannett dropped a standalone section of USA Today news at its 35 largest papers, eliminating hundreds of thousands of print copies.

USA Today circulation has plummeted from 2.3 million in 2007, rivaling the Wall Street Journal in paid circulation, to 178,00 in individually paid circulation.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer went all-digital in 2009. Papers all over America are going to less than 7-day print editions.

GateHouse websites are loaded with discussions of how switching to digital is saving millions of dollars.

Who really believes that USA Today and GateHouse, which owns the BJ and more than 250 newspapers and hundreds of weeklys in at least 32 states, will stick with print editions instead of transforming everything into digital editions?

Save your print editions of the BJ. They may become rarer than 1950s baseball cards.

To read the article, click on

https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2019/is-usa-todays-print-edition-headed-for-the-sunset-as-gatehouse-and-gannett-merge-signs-point-to-yes/?fbclid=IwAR3I1fSRIMdylDu8MiITsjbPSkW7tlbMhQMmipJzQThTwo2wZ3p9NpkFJHE

Paula Stone Tucker’s first book Surviving: A Kent State Memoir is available on Amazon.com today in both paperback and Kindle format.

It’s the story of a sheltered young woman who learns to stand up for herself as she survives the May 4, 1970, Kent State massacre, her family’s eccentricities, and the unexpected death of her young husband.

If you liked Educated or Hillbilly Elegy, this is the book for you.

Part of the proceeds are being donated to the May 4 Visitors Center at Kent State University.

Paula was a State Desk reporter in the early 70s, covering the nether regions of Medina and Wayne counties.

John,

Here are some pix from the BJ reunion.  I have permission from Jim Arnold for the photo he took (with my camera). You may make any use of all the photos on your blog.

Photo one (by Jim Arnold): Photographers  Bill Wade with Ron Kuner, Ott Gangl, Denny Gordon and Lew Stamp, with a table full of old pictures taken by Bill Wade.

TWO (photo by Bill Wade): Michael Good talking to Bill Hunter.

Three:  (photo by Bill Wade) Katie Byard Carney balances a cup while taking a photo of me taking a photo of her.

Four: (photo by Bill Wade)  Susan Kirkman Zake hugs Michael Good, as we get ready for the group photo.

five:  (photo by Bill Wade):  Marilyn Marchione Mastroianni, center, with husband Ernie Mastroianni, during the round up for the group photo.

Cheers,

Bill

www.williamDwade.com

Also giving permission to use their photos were Roger Mezger and Jim Arnold.

 

Looked like a fun time was had by all.

John,

Here's a shot of Bob and Nancy Giles from the picnic. Bob has written a book about the Beacon Journal's coverage of the Kent State shootings. It's being published in March.

Roger

 

Bob was managing editor at the BJ. Roger is Roger Mezger.

  

Carol Machamer Bosley, who married her Keyser High School sweetheart Scott Bosley in 1964 when before their senior years in college at Fairmont State (for Carol) and West Virginia University (for Scott), passed away Saturday, October 5 in Michigan.

The Bosleys retired to Kalamazoo, Michigan after Scott’s newspaper career that included managing editor at the BJ. Both were West Virginia natives – Carol was born in Newburg.

Their children are Julie Carol Bosley of Kalamazoo and Jeffrey Scott Bosley of Larkspur, California.

 

I got the word via retired BJ reporter Charlene Nevada:

 

“Char,

 “I thought you and Art would want to know that Carol died on Saturday. Julie, Jeff and I were at her side as she breathed her last. I’ve attached her obituary.

“Scott”

Scott served as American Society of Newspaper Editors executive director when Scott and Carol lived for a decade in Bethesda, Maryland. He also was executive editor at the Detroit Free Press and publisher of the Gary, Indiana Post-Tribune.

Carol’s obituary:

Carol M. Bosley

Aug. 15, 1943 – Oct. 5, 2019

 

Carol M. Bosley was empathetic to a fault. She had the observation and listening skills to see needs that needed to be filled. And then she assured they were filled.

Carol’s generosity and empathy was not limited to family and friends. Small kindnesses were

anonymously delivered: food, clothes, a restaurant tab picked up, summer camp registration fees, a larger tip to a student working for an education. Quiet, small things in a way; meaningful to the recipients. With her death Saturday, Oct. 5, at Rose Arbor Hospice, these touches, will be missed.

Carol’s family and friends also know and cherish the legacy of good work she leaves behind. She

managed the unfunded library at her children’s elementary school in Ohio. She spent hours
volunteering as a Sunday School teacher, Church Council member, visitor to the ill and dying,
altar guild stalwart and much more as the family moved from Akron to Detroit, suburban
Washington, New Jersey, Northwest Indiana and, ultimately, to retirement in Kalamazoo, Mich.

Her skill at maintaining friendships with thoughtful, heartfelt notes, in perfect handwriting and without strikeout or correction, was unrivaled.

Carol was born Aug. 15, 1943 in Newburg, W.Va. to Claude A. and Rosemary Machamer. In

ninth grade, the family moved to Keyser, W. Va. She graduated from Keyser High School in
1961 and in 1963 from Potomac State College of West Virginia University with an associate in
arts degree before pursuing her bachelor’s degree at Fairmont State.

Trained as an educator, Carol was a magna cum laude graduate of Fairmont State College and

put those skills to work both as a substitute teacher and nursery schoolteacher. She was, as her husband liked to say, “the brains of our family. She was a scholar, I just graduated.” Her
children agree; she made everything work.

She met her husband of 55 years, Scott, who survives, in high school and they married on Aug.

29, 1964 before beginning their senior years in college.

She is also survived by her their two children, daughter Julie Carol Bosley, Kalamazoo; son

Jeffrey Scott Bosley, daughter-in-law Julie Richards Bosley and granddaughters Megan and
Devin Bosley, Larkspur, Calif.; one sister, Barbara (Michael) Gingerich, Dumfries, Va.; and one
sister-in-law, Sandra Rhodes of Sebring, Fla. as well as many nieces and nephews.

Carol is a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, Kalamazoo.

A visitation will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, at Langland Funeral Homes Westside Chapel, 3926 South 9th Street, Kalamazoo.

Her funeral service will be held at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 19 at Trinity Lutheran Church, 11200 Old Georgetown Road, N. Bethesda, Md., where she developed a love for playing in the bell

choir. Family will be available following the service.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Lymphatic Education & Research Network

(www.lymphaticnetwork.org ), 40 Garvies Point Road, Suite D, Glen Cove, N.Y. 11542.