KNIGHT FOUNDATION CEO ALBERTO IBARGUEN RETIRES

 

                                   Alberto Ibarguen, wife Susana

Legendary Knight Foundation CEO Ibarguen retires

Alberto Ibargüen, president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for 18 years, is retiring at the age of 79.

Ibargüen, who was publisher of the Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald before agreeing to oversee the multibillion-dollar endowment of the Knight Foundation.

In 2021 his wife for 53 years, Susana Ibargüen, a civic leader and a board president at Pérez Art Museum Miami, passed away after a two-year battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a neurological disorder known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

 

Under Ibargüen’s leadership, the Knight Foundation poured $2.3 billion into media, tech development and arts and community-building organizations in states where the Knights had newspapers.

the Knight Foundation operates in Akron; Miami; Charlotte, North Carolina; Detroit; Macon, Georgia; Philadelphia; San Jose, California; and St. Paul, Minnesota.

Ibargüen was a Peace Corps volunteer in Venezuela, too.

“I think we did OK,” Ibargüen said.

Indeed!

Ibargüen was Puerto Rican-born, New York-reared, and educated at Wesleyan University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

JIM DETTLING'S FAMOUS BROTHER PASSES AWAY

 

Jim Dettling’s brother

Passes away

 

Brother of Jim Dettling, the late delightful BJ co-worker, passed away.

Jim Dettling and Bill Bierman added joy to my 26 BJ years.

Obituary for Jim’s brother:

Dr. John J. Dettling, age 94, of Akron, Ohio, passed away peacefully at home, on March 22, 2023, with his family by his side.

John was born in Akron and was a lifetime resident of the area. He was an Obstetrician and Gynecologist. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame and received his Medical Degree from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He interned at St. Vincent Hospital in New York City. Following his internship, he completed a four year Residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Downstate Medical Center and King's County Hospital in New York. The following year he received a Fellowship in Gynecological Oncology at Downstate Medical Center and King's County Hospital from the American Cancer Society. He was a diplomat of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He was a Captain in the United States Air Force, serving in Japan for two years.

John was the past Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and member of the Executive Committee at St. Thomas Hospital, in Akron. He later was the Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Akron City Hospital and a member of its Executive Committee and Finance Committee. He was also past Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Lakewood Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. He was an Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northeast Ohio Medical University.

John was past President of the Akron OB-GYN Society, past President of the American Cancer Society, past President of the Ohio Ballet, and past member of the Board of Trustees of the Akron Symphony Orchestra.

Following retirement from private practice in 1992, John worked for the Fairview Hospital System in Cleveland and at the Cleveland Clinic Health System. He retired from the Cleveland Clinic in 2003. He was a former member of the Summit County Medical Society and Bluecoats.

He was a past member of Portage Country Club and Catawba Island Club, where he was a Past Commodore. He was an avid boater on the Great Lakes for 25 years and was a member of the International Order of the Blue Gavel. He loved to ski and had a home in Vail, Colorado for 30 years. He was a member of St. Sebastian Church and later St. Victor Church.

John was preceded in death by his parents, John Alfred Dettling, Jr. and Hazel Diener Dettling, sister, Joan Botdorf, brother, Thomas Dettling, and brother, James Dettling.

Married to the former Marjorie Beringer for 62 years, he was the father of five children: son John C. ( Dr. Jacqueline) of Arlington, Virginia, daughter Rosemary of Chevy Chase, Maryland, daughter Karen Stultz (John) of Reston, Virginia, daughter Gail Morrison (David) of Cleveland, and son Scott (Karrie) of Akron and 12 grandchildren.

The family would like to express our most heartfelt thank you to the SummaCare Hospice care staff, who treated John with kindness, respect, and compassion.

There will be no calling hours. A graveside service will be held at Holy Cross Cemetery for the immediate family only. A Memorial Mass will be held on April 14, at 11 a.m. at St. Victor Church, 3435 Everett Road. Should friends desire, memorials may be made to the Department of Obstetrics, Summa Health System, 525 E. Market St., P.O. Box 2090, Akron, Ohio 44309 or to St. Victor Parish Foundation, 3435 Everett Road, Richfield, Ohio 44286.

Arrangements are being handled by the Hummel Funeral Home.

 

CHERYL SCOTT SHEININ HURT AGAIN IN FALL .... 'WEAK LEGS'

 

Cheryl Scott Sheinin

Hurt in fall

Blame it on all that star bowling!

BJ Finance retiree (after 45 years) Cheryl Scott Sheinin, who blames her “weak legs,” fell again “and my neighbor had to come over to help (husband) Neil get me up. We owe him big time.

“Not hurt, just my pride.”

Garfield High graduate Cheryl and Neil both are bowling stars. Neil had a high handicap for a 3-game series with 685. Cheryl had high series raw score of 463!

 

Neil bowled Cheryl over the first time she saw him. I’ll let Cheryl tell the story:

“We met at the Beacon. I worked the Public Service counter when it was on the 2nd floor. This handsome guy got off the elevator from the 3rd floor and came up to me to buy stamps. I looked at him, leaned over to open the drawer to get the stamps and fell off the stool. Great first impression.

“I found he was a copy runner in editorial and the chase was on."

“He left the BJ to work in Pennsylvania for Brunswick Bowling for a couple of years. When he returned to Akron he worked at Fairlawn Lanes and that is where our BJ ladies bowling team bowled.

“We caught up again there and the dating began. We got married in 1979.”

The math says that’s 44 years!

 

They did more than park themselves together in bowling alleys.

Neil and Cheryl have visited national parks like Devil’s Tower in Wyoming, Mount Rushmore in South Dakota (with the 4 Presidents), Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota, Devils Tower in Wyoming and Teddy Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota.

 

Cheryl’s brother, Don Scott, passed away in 2020. Their parents were Louise and Everett Scott. Don was a Goodyear supervisor for 35 years. During the 1950s when he was in the Army he got a tank injury that caused continuous back problems, but not enough to keep him from golfing, bowling and fishing.

 

Cheryl is a remarkably constant friend to have, too.

When former BJ security guard Anna Nitz passed away, Cheryl was in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina in 2012 for the spreading of Anna’s ashes into the Atlantic Ocean area Anna loved so much.

Anna’s husband, Bill Nitz, was there. Bill’s cousin Albert Nitz was Bill’s chaffeur for the seaside ceremony. Bill passed away in 2019.

Anna began with the Pinkertons for 42 years, starting in 1968, and migrated to spending much of her life greeting visitors to 44 E. Exchange Street. For those not in the dinosaur age that was where the BJ building was before moving into an former rubber shop 7^th floor on Main Street in Akron. 

GANNETT KING OF THE GOUGE-IT NEWSPAPER OWNERS!!!!

 From Gannett

To dammit!!!

In FOUR years Gannett reduced from 27,600 employees to 11,200 employees.

Politicians, major corporations and the weathiest Americans must be giddy that 16,400 watchdogs of democracy are gone!

Gannett is not slashing employees. It also is torching newspaper throughout America. In 2019 Gannett owned 261 daily and 302 weekly newspapers. By the end of 2022 Gannett had 217 daily and 175 weekly newspapers.

Digital newspapers are far less profitable than printed versions people can hold in their hands.

 

Detroit Free Press, which lured BJ management to it decades ago because of its reputation, went from 217,471 circulation in 2018 to 103,606 in 2022 – a 52.4% drop!

Arizona Republic (74.7%), Indianapolis Star (74.5%) and Louisville Courier-Journal (74%), one bluebloods of journalism, makes the Free Press plunge look anemic by comparison.

Even Gannett’s USA Today went from 579,692 paid subscriptions in 2018 to 134,629 in 2022.

Wonder what the future holds for the BJ, a Gannett newspaper that began in 1897 with a merger of the Summit Beacon, born in 1839, and the Akron Evening Journal, founded in 1896.

Charles Landon Knight bought the BJ. John S. Knight, best newspaper owner in American history, took over with his father passed away in 1933 in the throes of great debt and the Great Depression and built it into the Knight Newspapers empire of more than 30 newspapers.

It's downhill for local newspapers today with no brakes and no sympathy for thousands tossed into the streets without a job.

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.

EVEN BILLIONAIRES CAN'T RESCUE PRINT MEDIA

 $$$Billionaires flounder in

Attempts to save print media

Even billionaires haven’t been able to save print media from suffering a similiar fate as horse-and-buggy manufacturers when Henry Ford introduced automobile assembly lines to America.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post in 2013 for $250 million but it did little to rescue the Post from its misery.

 

Biotech billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong bought assets including the Los Angeles Times for $500 million but improvement is barely a ripple.

 

Salesforce Founder Marc Benioff bought Time for $190 million and its still struggling to break even financially 5 years later.

 

eBay founder Pierre Omidyar granted First Look Media, including The Intercept, $250 million in 2014 and has exited the business entirely.

THE LEGEND

 

OBITUARY TRIBUTE FOR LORNET TURNBULL BY HER HUSBAND

 

Lornet Turnbull's husband, Steve Haile, provided me with a moving, inspirational copy of her obituary which will appear in the Seattle Times.

An amazing love story, indeed.

Lornet was a business news reporter at the

 Beacon Journal from 1991-96 and a

 reporter in the BJ Columbus Bureau in

 1997. More details in an earlier blog

 article. Just scroll down a few articles till 

you get to it.

Steve's obituary tribute to Lornet:

Lornet Turnbull, an award-winning journalist with a rich career of story-telling, close friends around the world and an abiding love of nature and the outdoors, died of cancer on Jan. 11, her 59th birthday.

Her beloved husband Steve Haile was at her side in their Seattle home, surrounded by her sister, Lorna Turnbull, and niece LaToya Harrigan of St Thomas, USVI, and niece Sharriann Turnbull of Laurel, MD, and close family and friends.

Lornet is remembered as genuine, sincere, vibrant, determined and engaging, with a warm and beautiful smile.

Lornet was born and raised in the British Virgin Islands on the island of Tortola and spoke often of her warm childhood memories with family and friends.

After graduating with honors with a degree in journalism from Florida A&M University, Lornet went on to work as a reporter for newspapers in Lansing, Michigan; Columbus, Ohio and Akron, Ohio, before joining The Seattle Times in 2004. There, she covered immigration, homelessness, marriage equality and other high-profile issues. While she broke many front page news stories on her beat, her specialty was delving deeper into the lives of everyday people most affected by these highly-charged issues, writing about them with care, dignity and respect.

Lornet left The Times in 2014, later working as an editor for YES! magazine and freelancing for The Washington Post.  Many of Lornet’s stories were instrumental in transforming individuals’ dire situations into positive outcomes.

Lornet was diagnosed with late-stage cancer in 2020, whereupon she began an intense and ongoing treatment regimen that sometimes slowed her, but did not quell her desire to explore life to the fullest.  In the fall of 2021 she and Steve set out on a six week cross-country trip in a small motor home that Steve’s brother loaned them, visiting national parks, riding their e-bikes and striking up new friendships as they made their way to Maine and back. 

She wrote about their travels for The Washington Post and how pleased she and Steve were to meet so many kind strangers along the way, and is best quoted from that story, “I can close my eyes and travel back there in my mind, reabsorbing all that kindness and humanity we encountered on the road.” 

She had just completed a freelance story for REI three weeks before she died about her e-biking adventures with Steve.

Along with her husband, sister and nieces, Lornet is survived by stepchildren Megan (Gaelan Kelly) Haile of Seattle,WA, Ryan (Colette Simanello) Haile, of Oakland, CA, and Dylan (Kristin Rosa) Haile, of Santa Cruz, CA; sister Luette (Gary) Pless, of Atlanta, GA; brother Lawrence (Yvette) Turnbull, of St.Thomas, USVI; brothers Larren and Lendell Turnbull, and Irwin Smith of Tortola, BVI.  Additionally, Lornet had a host of aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, great niece and step grandchildren.

A celebration of Lornet’s life is planned for February 19.  Details will be posted here, as well as on her Facebook page.

AMAZING TOUR OF WHAT'S LEFT OF BJ BUILDING

BJ building tour

 For a video tour of what's left of the Beacon Journal building and a fascination explanation by former managing editor Doug Oplinger, which starts at the 18-minute mark, click on the URL below.

Doug was a baby-faced student at Green High when Pat Englehart sucked him into the deNobil vortex and the State Desk. The late Harry Liggett and I were Pat's assistants who handled the day-to-day operations while Pat brought the BJ a Pulitzer for its coverage of the 1970 Kent State shootings by the Ohio National Guard that killed 4 and wounded 9. 

One of the students killed was walking from her class in one building to another building and died from bullets sprayed over the heads of those peacefully assembled below the hill where the Guard fired away.

I've talked to those who were there and they said it was a "party atmosphere," not a dangerous demonstration. That's allowed in the Constitution but Gov. Rhodes was running for a Senate seat and thought "getting tough" on teenagers to barely 20somethings would get him elected.

It didn't. Later the FBI labeled the firing squad to blame for the massacre.

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1990s BJ & COLUMBUS BUREAU REPORTER LORNET TURNBULL PASSES AWAY

 

Former BJ reporter Lornet Turnbull passed away.

Lornet was a business news reporter at the Beacon Journal from 1991-96 and a reporter in the BJ Columbus Bureau in 1997.

She left for the Columbus Dispatch from 1997 to 2003 and was named Enterprise Reporter of the Year.

At the Seattle Times (2004-2014) Lornet was part of a team of reporters who won the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 2014 Oso, Washington landslide that killed 43 people.

Lornet also worked for YES! Magazine and the Washington Post.

She was originally from Tortola and a graduate of Florida A&M University.

She was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2020. She wrote about engaging in outdoor activities as part of her therapy and strategy to fight her illness. Lornet and husband Steve Haile spent almost two decades hiking in the Olympic and Cascade ranges near their Seatttle home. Mount Rainier provided her with magnificent scenery on her drives to their house.

Lornet and Steve ziplined on Seven Mile Beach in Negril, Jamaica; went snowshoeing in Mazama, Washington, and the Adirondacks; enjoyed the scenery of Vancouver, British Columbia, as Paula and I did, including Stanley Park, which has miles of nature’s masterpieces to enjoy.

Lornet and Steve knew how to embrace life and nature!

My thanks to former BJer Ken Krause and my Facebook Googling for the information in this article.

HALLEY SHAFFER, IN BJ NEWSROOM FOR 28 YEARS, PASSES AWAY

 

Halley Shaffer, in the BJ mailroom for 28, beginning in 1972, passed away Friday, January 6.

Calling hours at Tuesday, January 10 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Bacher-Moore Funeral Home at 3326 Manchester Road. Funeral service at Bacher-Moore on Wednesday, January 11. Burial will be in Chestnut Hill Cemetery in Cuyahoga Falls.

Halley is survived by his wife of 65 years, Anna Ruth Shaffer; daughters LaDonna Shaffer Russell, married to Ron; LeAnna Ruth Shaffer Burdett, obviously named for her mother, married to Scott; 4 grandchildren; and 4 great-grandchildren.

LaDonna’s husband’s father passed away December 15. So LaDonna and Ron both lost their fathers in less than a month. Terrible double loss for them.

Halley’s obituary:

Halley F. Shaffer, 86, went home to be with his heavenly father on Friday, January 6, 2023. "Absent from the body, present with the Lord" - 2 Corinthians 5:8.

He was born on Monday, April 13, 1936 in South Charleston, WV to the late Hobert and June Shaffer. Halley proudly served as a Fireman with the West Virginia Air National Guard and retired from the Akron Beacon Journal after 28 years.

Throughout his Christian life Halley was a Sunday School Teacher, deacon, and usher at the former Akron Baptist Temple and currently was a member of Chapel of Prayer Baptist Church. Halley enjoyed traveling with the Goldenagers and a good cup of "hot" coffee, but most importantly he loved his family.

He is survived by his wife of 65 years, Anna Ruth Shaffer; daughters, LaDonna (Ron) Russell, LeAnna (Scott) Burdett; grandchildren, Caleb Burdett, Hunter Burdett, Lindsay (Jesse) Miller, Lucas (Rylie) Russell; great-grandchildren, Colton, Presley, Malia, and Nova; and other family and friends who loved him dearly.

The family will greet friends at Bacher-Moore Funeral Home, 3326 Manchester Rd., Akron, OH 44319 on Tuesday, January 10, 2023 from 5 to 7 p.m., where a funeral service will be held on January 11, 2023 at 11 am., with Rev. Sherman Bailey and Rev. Ernie Kemppel officiating. Interment will be at Chestnut Hill Cemetery in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Chapel of Prayer Baptist Church, c/o Missions Fund, 1811 Brittain Rd., Akron, OH 44310, in memory of Halley Shaffer.

RIP, BARBERTON HERALD, 100 YEARS OLD

 

Barberton Herald dies at age of 100

 

Since 2004, the U.S. has lost more than 2,000 newspapers. Add the 100-year-old Barberton Herald to the dismal list. Thursday’s edition will be its last.

the Herald began publishing in Barberton in 1923, moving from Kenmore, where it started in 1921. It moved into its current location on Fourth Street Northwest in 1967.

 

The Herald began publishing in Barberton in 1923, moving from Kenmore, where it started in 1921. It moved into its current location on Fourth Street Northwest in 1967.

 

The Geauga Times Leader in Chardon, Ohio gave up a few years back.

Barberton mayor William Judge said it’s bad for a community to rely on social media rather than its local newspaper for the truth.

West Side Leader and South Side Leader publisher Clark Burns said he will increase Barberton news coverage to partially fill the gap of information for Barberton residents. The BJ also said it will focus more on Barberton.

JERRY STAPLETON, RITA'S BROTHER, PASSES AWAY IN FLORIDA

 

Rita Fay Stapleton, who worked in nearly every department during her 42 years at the BJ, filed this sad news:

 

“My only brother, Jerry Stapleton passed away Wed. Dec. 14. He was raised in Randolph, graduated and played football for Akron U, became a 1^st Lieutenant in the Army during the Vietnam years, became a State Farm Agent in Solon.

 

“He and his wife Patty moved to (Valrico) Florida after he retired. His son, Shannon, called me from the Ukraine and notified me of his passing. He was on assignment there as a photojournalist with Reuter News Agency.

 

“He was a very good husband, father, grandpa and brother. We will miss him greatly.

 

“Jerry and (newsroom editor) Sandy Levenson both had esophageal cancer around the same time. Sandy’s wife and my sister-in-law connected. They both had the same doctor.

 

“Jerry later had prostate cancer and he withered away to 123 lbs. He is no longer struggling.

 

“Rita was a fixture in Composing for almost half a century. She recalls: “I spent 42 years there. It felt like my second home.”

 

Rita retired in 2011 on the same day as David Cummings. Both had been at the BJ for 42 years!

In retirement Rita “helped with the USO of North Canton, visited my 88-year-old dad more often, played tennis and in general just having a good ol’ time.”

Rita started out as a typesetter in November 1968, did paste-up, proofreading, worked the computer room, Camex operator, worked in CTS in graphics arts, then data entry, then worked in call center typing and was switched to operating the tearsheet room for a few years before it got phased out.

Went from there temporarily to finance before ending up in Marketing and helped with Newspaper in Education and anywhere else when needed. Ended up in the packaging department before finally retiring.

It was a fun time working with all the printers. Enjoyed all the excitement of helping put the paper to bed on night shift and all the comradeship of the men, never a dull moment.

She concluded: “It was a blessing to have worked for such a fine newspaper, especially when times were great.”

Mandy Gillis said of Jerry: “He was a good guy! Watched out for the neighborhood kids” in Randolph, where Mandy grew up before winding up in Tallmadge, where I live, too, after four decades in Cuyahoga Falls during my 26 years at my beloved BJ.

TERRY TAYLOR, MARIEDNA TAYLOR'S HUSBAND, PASSES AWAY

 

Terry Taylor, husband of Mariedna Taylor, BJ Payroll for 22 years still her 2018 retirement, passed away Tuesday, December 6.

Mariedna received a Beacon Journal’s Brightest award in 2017 on the same day as Rick Armond and Frank Palcko.

Karen Jones, BJ benefits coordinator who lives in Tallmadge, tipped me off.

Terry’s obituary:

In Loving Memory of Terence Lee "Terry" Taylor 1944 - 2022

 

Terence “Terry” Taylor, 78, met his heavenly gate invitation, peacefully, at home on December 6^th, 2022.

His legacy is survived by his loving wife of 38 years, Mariedna S Taylor; his daughters, Erica (John) Taylor, Kelly (Kip) Welty, Robin (Scott) French and his son, Gregory Taylor; his sister, Kathy (Richard) Goocher and his brother, Jeff Taylor.

Preceded in death was his mother, Agnes, his father, Dale Dirk Taylor; and his brother, Scott Alan Taylor. He will also be deeply missed by his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Terry always appreciated spending time with family, whether it was on a boat, travelling in the car on fun road trips, or to the infamous White Sox vs Indians games. Also, throughout the years, he has enjoyed golfing, bowling, hunting and fishing. Each and every one of these pursuits were always approached with a great deal of planning and great enthusiasm.

Born the eldest of four children, Terry was engrained with the responsibility of a leader. Throughout his career in engineering and various leagues, whether it be Boy Scouts or otherwise, he has always taken the initiative to take on more responsibility by being in a leadership role. Always the one to see through things to the end, he would make sacrifices to make deadlines for newsletters and action plans for his leagues.

Terry enjoyed many, and seemingly endless, nights of Sunday evening rivalrous games of Euchre and Cribbage. A man full of sharp-witted comments and clever phrases was always said with a smirk or a laughter that made his shoulders jump, especially if it was particularly witty.

Defeats never went un-noticed and would often be called ‘muggins’. Or the first points made in the game would always be called, “first blood”.

Funeral services will be held on Monday, December 12, 2022 at 1 PM at Newcomer Funeral Home, 131 North Canton Road, Akron, Ohio 44305, where Rev. David Weyrick will celebrate Terry's life. Family and friends may visit at the funeral home on Monday from 11:00 AM until the service time at 1:00 PM.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contribution may be made directly to Stow Presbyterian Church, 4150 Fishcreek Road, Stow, OH 44224. 

Services & Gatherings Visitation: Monday, December 12, 2022 from 11:00am to 1:00pm Newcomer Cremations, Funerals & Receptions 131 North Canton Rd Akron, OH 44305 330-784-3334

MARY KAY QUINN LATEST VICTIM OF BJ EXODUS TSUNAMI

 

Add Mary Kay Quinn to never-ending BJ exodus

 

Mary Kay Quinn, who was BJ editorial page editor, Metro reporter and editor and both BJ and Hudson Hub-Times regional opinion and engagement editor, has been eliminated from her BJ job. Mary Kay began at Ol' Blue Walls in 1996, 

the year I retired from 44 E. Exchange Street after 26 fantastic years there.

Earlier this year she was awarded second place for editorial page writing in the Ohio Associated Press Media Editors honors.

She posted on her Facebook page:

“Found out my ‘position is being eliminated’ this morning. Not surprised, the way things have been going. Fortunately, they will be giving me a nice severance and my health care runs until the end of this year. Last day is Dec. 9. Good luck to those who remain!”

Indeed, it’s like hearing a dirge from the dance band on the Titanic at the BJ these days.

Marla Ridenour, Jim Mackinnon, Karren Schiely and Scot Fagerstrom took buyouts in November.

In the 2001 exodus were sports columnist Tom Melody, chief artist Art Krummel, the copy desk’s Sandy Levenson, columnist Mickey Porter, Features Department editor Joan Rice, superb writer Bill Bierman, Reference Librarian Diane Lynch, copy editor George Davis, editorial board member Tim Hayes, Metro reporters Bill Canterbury, Bob Hoiles and Dennis McEaneney, Mark Braykovich, reporter Barb Mudrak Galloway, columnist Steve Love, Jim Quinn, religion writer Laura Haferd and Terence Oliver.

 

In the 2006 exodus were editor Bonnie Bolden; clerk Barbara Albrecht, artist Dennis Balogh, reporters Gary Estwick and Mary Ethridge, columnist Diane Papparone Evans, copy editor Tim Good, reporter Andale Gross, copy editor Erin Hill, reporter Gloria Irwin, copy editors Jim Kavanagh and Jody Kraner, reporter Delano Massey, copy editor Kim Profant, reporter Tom Reed, photographers Robin Sallie and Lindsay Sample, food writer Jane Snow, reporter Kathy Spitz, copy editor Chiffon Staebler, copy editor  Debbie Stock Kiefer, editorial writer Sarah Vradenburg, reporter Judie Wallace and photographer Jocelyn Williams.

In the 2008 exodus were city hall reporter Carl Chancellor, deputy Metro editor Keith McKnight, Metro editor Ann Sheldon Mezger, columnist David Giffels, cartoonist Chip Bok and classic music critic Elaine Guregian.

We are getting nearer and nearer to this notice:

“Will the last person who leaves the BJ please turn off the lights.”