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Connecting
July 11, 2024
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Colleagues,
Good Thursday morning on this July 11, 2024,
Our colleague Patricia Lantis, former director of AP Wide World Photos, died in March at the age of 75 and Connecting provided a touching story by her former AP colleague Steve Hart, followed by remembrances in subsequent issues.
But her friend and colleague Nancy Shulins searched for her formal obituary and was told by Patricia’s husband Mark Moody that she hadn't cared to have one. Nancy said, “That bothered me, not only because she deserved a respectful sendoff, but also because there could be other people from her and Mark's past who might want to reach out to him, if only they'd known. I asked him whether he'd mind if I wrote one. He graciously accepted, and we got to work. Here's what we put together, which I'm sharing at his request.”
It is Connecting’s lead item today. If you would like to send a note to Mark, you can do so through Nancy at - nshulins@mindspring.com
In today’s Final Word, our colleague Bill Kole and his recently published book, “THE BIG 100: The New World of Super-Aging,” were featured Wednesday in an Axios piece relating to age and President Biden.
Asked by Connecting for a prelude to the Axios story, Bill – whose AP career included service as New England news editor – said, “You can say that after witnessing what Biden is going through at 81, I’m re-evaluating my plan to live to 101.”
WANTED – CONNECTING WEBMASTER: With the decision to continue the internal archiving of Connecting issues (see the Connecting Archive link in our masthead), we are looking for a volunteer to keep the archive updated. The late Paul Shane was our first webmaster and was followed by our colleague Jo Steck who is stepping out of the role, with much appreciation from Ye Olde Connecting Editor for her work over the years. Drop me a note if you’re interested – and perhaps it could be done as a job share split among several colleagues.
Here’s to a great day – be safe, stay healthy, live it to your fullest.
Paul
A farewell to Patricia Lantis:
‘Knowing how and approximately when you’re going to depart life is strange. I’m not frightened, nor am I angry, but I do wish that I could stay longer.’ So do we.
Patricia Lantis, who rose through the ranks to head the Associated Press’ photo agency, Wide World Photos, has died. She was 75 and had been battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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She is survived by her husband of 38 years, Mark Moody; a sister and brother-in-law, Anne and William Struck, a niece, Dianne Craig, and two nephews, Mike and Scott Struck.
She was the daughter of Grenvere and Martha Lantis, who predeceased her, as did her beloved cats, CB, Artie, and Sam. She is survived by three: Stella, Bubba, and Otis, rescues all. In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be made to PETA.
Patricia grew up in Michigan, which she left shortly after graduating from high school in 1966. Hers was a strict home, for which she considered her three wildly adventurous years in California a necessary corrective. She returned briefly to Michigan before moving on to Upstate New York, where she worked in an emergency room and took the occasional class at Syracuse University.
She arrived in New York City in 1972 and married Steven Werlin, who was doing his residency in cardiology at St. Vincent’s. The marriage was short-lived, and afterward, she held various positions in healthcare. She also owned a shop, Pieces of Dreams, in Amagansett.
She landed a job as an administrative assistant at The Associated Press in 1979. In 1980, when a sales position opened up at Wide World Photos, she transferred to AP’s commercial photo agency. She was promoted to Deputy Director in 1983. She became Director in 1987.
In 1984 she met Mark Moody, a bartender at a steakhouse in Midtown where she sometimes ate lunch. Theirs was a whirlwind romance. They started dating in the spring of 1985 and were married on November 27 of the same year, 6 months after their first date.
In the late 1990s, Patricia left The AP for Time/Life Photos. There, she met her future business partner and close friend, Uri Davidov. The two left to start their own agency, Landov Media, which they operated for 15 years until she retired.
Impressive though it may be, Patricia’s career path was hardly her chosen legacy. If you were lucky enough to know her, you already know that she will be remembered not for what she did, but for who she was. For her kindness, her compassion, her charisma, her wit…take your pick.
If you were lucky enough to be her friend, you could undoubtedly add volumes to that list, as her generosity toward her friends knew no bounds. Their troubles were her troubles, as were their worries, their triumphs, their sorrows, their joys. Whoever said that a problem shared is a problem halved could have been talking about Patricia.
It must also be said that regardless of how well you knew her, there were bound to be gaps in your knowledge. Her grandmother was the first woman sheriff in Indiana. Patricia sold beads on the Sunset Strip in LA in 1967. She hitchhiked through Europe, Morocco and Turkey in 1970. If any or all of this is news to you, you’re not alone.
Patricia had a gift for steering the conversation away from herself. She was such an active listener – she listened with her entire being – that chances are you never even noticed how little she talked about herself.
As much as she loved Manhattan, it was at their country place in Pennsylvania where Patricia truly came alive. That’s where she and Mark weathered the pandemic, and where, later, she faced her illness with equanimity and grace.
Knowing she wouldn’t live long enough to become Mark’s caretaker seemed to be her only regret.
She wrote of her love for her soulmate – “my rock” – with whom she had shared 38 years, whose extraordinary care made it possible for her to live out her days without having to spend a single night in the hospital. “Our life together couldn’t be much better,” she wrote.
“Knowing how and approximately when you’re going to depart life is strange. I’m not frightened, nor am I angry, but I do wish that I could stay longer.”
So do we.
(Written by Nancy Shulins)
Covering sports for APm finally getting designation as ‘AP Sports Writer’
Ed McCullough - This may or may not be a Darrell Christian story, but the timing’s about right.
In 1981 I must have been one of the few AP reporters covering two professional teams, the NFL Buffalo Bills and NHL Buffalo Sabres, who did not have the byline tag "Sports Writer."
That anomaly would persist for the next year and a half. Why wouldn't it? I had never covered sports: not high school, not college, certainly not the pros. I barely knew the rules and had not been hired by nor did I report to the national sports editor.
To me, news included sports and vice versa.
After covering a minor league baseball game where a prospect still in college, John Elway, made an astounding throw from deep right field to third base -- on the fly, no bounce – and arrived ahead of a running trying to turn a double into a triple; I returned to hockey.
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The Sabres had a budding hall of famer of their own: team captain Gil Perreault, rookie of the year in 1970 and center on the high-flying French Connection line. A decade later he still was one of the best, fastest and shiftiest puck-handlers in the NHL.
In April 1983 the Sabres were preparing to face the Montreal Canadians in their playoff opener. I had to write a set-up story and wanted to convey the "something's about to happen" when the big Canadian was on the move: rifling passes, shredding defenses, racing toward the opposing goal. It really was electric.
Problem was, Mr. Perreault didn't talk much with reporters. When he did, the resulting mumble was part French, part English. Never a lot of words. Hard to quote. Veteran sports writers tended to leave him alone, which seemed fine to Gil.
But I wanted him to be part of his own – er, my - story, and explain what it was like for him to play the game at the highest level, year after year.
What did he see a second before or a little more clearly than anyone else on the ice while standing motionless for an instant behind his goal, puck sliding back and forth his stick, surveying the rink at a glance - teammates, opponents, motion, possibilities, score, time remaining – then taking off, gathering speed, once more the sharp point of the attack.
After games the locker room was a scrum, so I started coming to the early morning workouts which reporters were allowed to attend but few did. I would ask questions, sometimes getting a response, sometimes not.
At one point he said (paraphrase): "What do I have to do to get rid of you?" I said, "Talk to me." So he did.
"I pick my spots," he said. "After 13 years, you have to." That simple quote was the heart of a story published by newspapers in various NHL cities. The headline in the Wellsville Daily Reporter (Wellsville, N.Y.) was, "Sabres look to Perreault". By Ed McCullough | of the Associated Press.
Here's the lede: "Some of the raw speed and power are gone, but Gil Perreault, the NHL rookie of the year in 1970, still sends a charge through fans when he wheels in his own end and heads up ice."
The rest of the story with a few more Perreault quotes was fleshed out by Sabres teammates talking about him, which they were happy to do.
"When he first came up, he never killed penalties," said left wing Craig "Iron Man" Ramsay, who played 776 straight games, 4th most in NHL history. "He was an offensive player and one of the best players."
But as the team needed him to anchor power plays and kill penalties, too, "He's been willing to learn," Ramsay added, in the process becoming a complete player.
That story was published on Tuesday, April 5. The Sabres beat the Canadians two straight in Montreal and returned to home ice in Buffalo. I wrote the set-up for that playoff game, too, published on Saturday, April 9.
Headline: "Sabres looking for KO tonight against the Habs", Niagara Gazette, April 9, 1983, By Ed McCullough | AP Sports Writer.
I never asked for the sports byline tag nor was told that it would be conferred by the national sports editor or desk – perhaps by Darrell? I found out by reading the Gazette and attribute it to the Perreault interview and story. Merci beaucoup, Gil.
He played three more seasons and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1990.
A few months later, I transferred to Washington, D.C. to cover pro politics (Congress) and the federal angle of issues important to AP's media clients and their news audiences in New York state.
For the rest of my news career, I also covered sports including the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, World Cup skiing, Davis Cup and professional tennis, track and field.
Memories of Darrell Christian, Terry Taylor
Mike Harris - Tim Dahlberg’s account of working with Darrell Christian on the lede to Muhammad Ali’s obit brought back vivid memories of Darrell and Terry Taylor working over my Indy 500 ledes.
I wrote the main story at Indy for 35 years and had two of the best and pickiest editors in AP overseeing my copy for many of those years.
There were even times when Terry wasn’t there and she and Darrell conferred on the phone.
At times, it was like I wasn’t even there, although they occasionally asked for my input. The situation was rather off putting, but I reined my ego in because the lede they came up with was always great. And, of course, my byline was on it.
Another reason I wasn't too upset was that the rest of the 1,000 or so words I wrote were left intact. As was my optional lede.
I remember telling longtime LA Times motorsports and golf writer Shav Glick, a good friend, about the situation and he told me a story that made me laugh.
He wrote a long takeout on US Open golf tournament that he thought was some of his best writing. But, when he saw it in print, someone on the editing desk at the Times had changed the lede, although the other 1,500 words were completely unchanged.
Shav said, "I guess I became a better writer after that first paragraph!"
Despite the fiddling with the ledes at Indy, I loved working with Darrell and Terry. and watching them work. I consider myself lucky to have been part of the AP world during their tenures.
Guess who’s coming to dinner?
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Steve Hendren - Last Saturday night we had an unexpected guest at dinner time. He (or she) traveled up our driveway before hanging a right and heading further up towards our son’s place where he (or she) returned to the woods. First time we’ve seen bears on this side of our property in the Green Mountains of Vermont near Plymouth (Calvin Coolidge’s home). They usually stay on the east side where all the blueberries are. Very cute, at a safe distance.
Connecting sky shot – Arizona
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Mark Mittelstadt - Moments before sunrise, looking east towards the Catalina Mountains from a park on the outskirts of Tucson.
An AP sighting (sort of) in the Tampa Bay Times
A violent gang based in Hillsborough County that committed crimes throughout Florida and in other states has been dismantled with the arrest of six members, including its leader, the U.S. Attorney’s office in Tampa announced on Monday. …
According to U.S. Attorney Roger Handberg, the gang is called Alexander Park, or AP, and its members committed “acts of intimidation” to instill fear in the greater Tampa community and retaliate against other gangs.
(Shared by Bruce Lowitt)
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Stories of interest
Media upheaval: CNN cutting about 100 jobs, and CBS News president announces resignation (AP)
BY MICHELLE CHAPMAN AND DAVID BAUDER
NEW YORK (AP) — CBS News President Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews said Wednesday she’s resigning after less than a year in her role, and CNN announced that it was eliminating approximately 100 jobs in continued signs of upheaval for the media business.
Ciprian-Matthews will continue to work as an adviser through the presidential election before exiting CBS News. She was named CBS News president last August.
Her resignation came a few days after CBS parent Paramount Global announced it was selling control of the company to the entertainment firm Skydance, which is expected to make job cuts at CBS.
Ciprian-Matthews alluded to coming changes in a memo she sent to staff members.
“We all know our industry and company are going through a transformation and a number of short- and long-term decisions need to be made,” she wrote. “I do not want to be disingenuous with any of you about who should drive these decisions.”
Read more here.
Click here for CNN story. Shared by Len Iwanski, Mark Mittelstadt.
Click here for Deadline story. Shared by Paul Albright.
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Man suspected of killing the family of BBC radio commentator has been found, British police say (AP)
BY PAN PYLAS
LONDON (AP) — British police said they found Wednesday the man suspected of killing three women, the wife and daughters of a well-known BBC radio commentator, near London in a brutal crossbow attack.
In a statement, Hertfordshire Police said 26-year-old Kyle Clifford was found in the Enfield area of north London, near his home, and that he is receiving medical treatment for his injuries. Police did not say how those injuries happened but stressed that they had not fired any shots.
The BBC confirmed that the women killed were members of the family of its commentator John Hunt — his 61-year-old wife Carol Hunt and their daughters Hannah, 28, and Louise, 25.
Footage from Sky News showed the suspect being carried on a stretcher out of Lavender Hill Cemetery in Enfield, which is close to his home and around 52 kilometers (17 miles) to the east from the site of the killings. Armed police officers, forensic personnel and ambulance staff had massed around the cemetery through the day.
Read more here.
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I can't wait for all of the media coverage of Trump's confusing Tuesday night rally (USA Today)
Rex Huppke
Folks, I’m worried about Donald Trump and his mental decline, which was on vivid display at a rally Tuesday night on one of his Florida golf courses.
During the event, the former president slurred words, claimed his son Don Jr. is married when he’s actually just engaged, and consistently described the world around him in a manner wholly inconsistent with reality.
During one heartbreaking moment, Trump stopped talking for a full minute while the usual eerie music favored by an unhinged conspiracy group called QAnon played in the background. He sweatily moved his head back and forth and randomly pointed at people, appearing to not know exactly what he was doing.
It was tough to watch, but there’s little question the 78-year-old no longer has the faculties needed to take on President Joe Biden in the race for the presidency. It’s now up to Trump’s family and responsible members of the Republican Party to find a way for him to gracefully step aside and let a younger and more competent candidate take over, possibly someone like Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Read more here. Shared by Dennis Conrad.
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Report for America opens newsroom applications, expands opportunity to hire more journalists
Press Release | Report for America
Report for America is looking to add more than 50 newsroom positions next summer and applications are now open for local newsrooms interested in partnering to host early-career and experienced journalists for up to three years.
Report for America is a national service program that places talented journalists — corps members — into local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues and communities. Through the program, host newsrooms receive:
Diverse, talented slate of candidates to choose from
Subsidized salary support for up to three years
Local fundraising coaching and resources, including the opportunity for no-cost fiscal sponsorship to accept donations
Extra training and mentoring for journalists
"We recognize the difficulties modern newsrooms encounter, from recruiting skilled journalists to offering the necessary mentorship and support," said Earl Johnson, vice president of recruitment and alumni engagement at Report for America. "Partnering with Report for America enables local newsrooms to address critical news gaps, diversify their staff, and foster sustainable local backing within their communities."
Read more here. Shared by Len Iwanski, Mark Mittelstadt.
The Final Word
What research shows about brains of older Americans (Axios)
Carly Mallenbaum
Age is taking center stage this election year after President Biden's debate performance at 81 worried even his biggest supporters.
Why it matters: Americans are living longer — and emerging research offers insight as to why — but not every senior fits the "Golden Bachelor" profile.
The big picture: The number of Americans who hit triple-digit ages is expected to quadruple over the next three decades.
Yes, but: "As much as we want to believe age is just a number, it clearly isn't," Axios' Bill Kole writes in "THE BIG 100: The New World of Super-Aging."
"We're not the same at 80 as we are at 45," Kole says.
Brains start shrinking in our 30s and 40s — and much more in our 60s — in the regions responsible for cognitive function.
In his book, Kole highlights what's true for many people who live to 100+.
Read more here.
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AP classes, by the year...
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is a listing of Connecting colleagues who have shared the year and the bureau where they started with the AP. If you would like to share your own information, I will include it in later postings. Current AP staffers are also welcome to share their information.)
1951 - Norm Abelson (Boston)
1953 – Charles Monzella (Huntington, WVa)
1955 – Henry Bradsher (Atlanta), Paul Harrington (Boston), Joe McGowan (Cheyenne)
1957 - Louis Uchitelle (Philadelphia)
1958 – Roy Bolch (Kansas City)
1959 – Charlie Bruce (Montgomery)
1960 – Claude Erbsen (New York), Carl Leubsdorf (New Orleans)
1961 – Peter Arnett (Jakarta, Indonesia), Strat Douthat (Charleston. WVa), Warren Lerude (San Diego), Ed Staats (Austin)
1962 – Paul Albright (Cheyenne), Malcolm Barr Sr. (Honolulu), Myron Belkind (New York), Kelly Smith Tunney (Miami)
1963 – Hal Bock (New York)
1964 – Rachel Ambrose (Indianapolis), Larry Hamlin (Oklahoma City), John Lengel (Los Angeles), Ron Mulnix (Denver), Lyle Price (San Francisco), Arlene Sposato (New York), , Hilmi Toros (New York)
1965 – Bob Dobkin (Pittsburgh), Harry Dunphy (Denver), John Gibbons (New York), Jim Luther (Nashville), Larry Margasak (Harrisburg), Rich Oppel (Tallahassee)
1966 – Shirley Christian (Kansas City), Mike Doan (Portland, OR), Edie Lederer (New York), Nancy Shipley (Nashville), Mike Short (Los Angeles), Marty Thompson (Seattle), Nick Ut (Saigon), Kent Zimmerman (Chicago)
1967 – Dan Berger (Los Angeles), Adolphe Bernotas (Concord), Lou Boccardi (New York), Linda Deutsch (Los Angeles), Don Harrison (Los Angeles), Doug Kienitz (Cheyenne), David Liu (New York), Bruce Lowitt (Los Angeles), Chuck McFadden (Los Angeles), Martha Malan (Minneapolis), Bill Morrissey (Buffalo), Larry Paladino (Detroit), Michael Putzel (Raleigh), Bruce Richardson (Chicago), Richard Shafer (Baltimore), Victor Simpson (Newark), Michael Sniffen (Newark)
1968 – Lee Balgemann (Chicago), John Eagan (San Francisco), Joe Galu (Albany/Troy), Peter Gehrig (Frankfurt), Charles Hanley (Albany), Jerry Harkavy (Portland, Maine), Herb Hemming (New York), Brian King (Albany), Samuel Koo (New York), Karren Mills (Minneapolis), Michael Rubin (Los Angeles), Rick Spratling (Salt Lake City), Barry Sweet (Seattle)
1969 - Ann Blackman (New York), Ford Burkhart (Philadelphia), Dick Carelli (Charleston, WVa), Dennis Coston (Richmond), Mary V. Gordon (Newark), Daniel Q. Haney (Portland, Maine), Mike Harris (Chicago), Brad Martin (Kansas City), David Minthorn (Frankfurt), Cynthia Rawitch (Los Angeles), Bob Reid (Charlotte), Mike Reilly (New York), Doug Tucker (Tulsa), Bill Winter (Helena)
1970 – Richard Boudreaux (New York), Richard Drew (San Francisco), Bob Egelko (Los Angeles), Steve (Indy) Herman (Indianapolis), Tim Litsch (New York), Lee Margulies (Los Angeles), Chris Pederson (Salt Lake City), Brendan Riley (San Francisco), Larry Thorson (Philadelphia)
1971 – Harry Atkins (Detroit), Jim Bagby (Kansas City), Larry Blasko (Chicago), Jim Carlson (Milwaukee), Jim Carrier (New Haven), Chris Connell (Newark), Bill Gillen (New York), Bill Hendrick (Birmingham), John Lumpkin (Dallas), Kendal Weaver (Montgomery)
1972 – Hank Ackerman (New York), Bob Fick (St. Louis), Joe Frazier (Portland, Ore.), Terry Ganey (St. Louis), Mike Graczyk (Detroit), Denis Gray (Albany), Lindel Hutson (Little Rock), Brent Kallestad (Sioux Falls), Tom Kent (Hartford), Nolan Kienitz (Dallas), Andy Lippman (Phoenix), Ellen Miller (Helena), Mike Millican (Hartford), Lew Wheaton (Richmond)
1973 - Jerry Cipriano (New York), Susan Clark (New York), Norm Clarke (Cincinnati), Joe Galianese (East Brunswick), Merrill Hartson (Richmond), Mike Hendricks (Albany), Tom Journey (Tucson), Steve Loeper (Los Angeles), Tom Slaughter (Sioux Falls), Jim Spehar (Denver), Paul Stevens (Albany), Jeffrey Ulbrich (Cheyenne), Owen Ullmann (Detroit), John Willis (Omaha), Evans Witt (San Francisco)
1974 – Norman Black (Baltimore), David Espo (Cheyenne), Dan George (Topeka), Robert Glass (Philadelphia), Steve Graham (Helena), Elaine Hooker (Hartford), Sue Price Johnson (Charlotte), Dave Lubeski (Washington), Janet McConnaughey (Washington), Lee Mitgang (New York), Bud Weydert (Toledo), Marc Wilson (Little Rock)
1975 – Peter Eisner (Columbus), David Powell (New York), Eileen Alt Powell (Milwaukee)
1976 – Brad Cain (Chicago), Judith Capar (Philadelphia), Dick Chady (Albany), Steve Crowley (Washington), David Egner (Oklahoma City), Marc Humbert (Albany), Steven Hurst (Columbus), Richard Lowe (Nashville), John Nolan (Nashville), Charlotte Porter (Minneapolis), Chuck Wolfe (Charlotte)
1977 – Bryan Brumley (Washington), Robert Burns (Jefferson City), Charles Campbell (Nashville), Dave Carpenter (Philadelphia), Ken Herman (Dallas), Mike Holmes (Des Moines), Brad Kalbfeld (New York), Scott Kraft (Jefferson City), John Kreiser (New York), Peter Leabo (Dallas), Kevin LeBoeuf (Los Angeles), Ellen Nimmons (Minneapolis), Dan Sewell (Buffalo), Estes Thompson (Richmond), David Tirrell-Wysocki (Concord)
1978 – Tom Eblen (Louisville), Ruth Gersh (Richmond), Doug Pizac (Los Angeles), Charles Richards (Dallas), Reed Saxon (Los Angeles), Steve Wilson (Boston)
1979 – Brian Bland (Los Angeles), Scotty Comegys (Chicago), John Daniszewski (Philadelphia), Frances D’Emilio (San Francisco), Pat Fergus (Albany), Brian Friedman (Des Moines), Sally Hale (Dallas), Jill Lawrence (Harrisburg), Barry Massey (Kansas City), Phillip Rawls (Nashville), John Rice (Carson City), Linda Sargent (Little Rock), Joel Stashenko (Albany), Robert Wielaard (Brussels)
1980 – Alan Adler (Cleveland), Christopher Bacey (New York), Jeff Barnard (Providence), Mark Duncan (Cleveland), Bill Kaczor (Tallahassee), Mitchell Landsberg (Reno), Kevin Noblet (New Orleans), Jim Rowley (Baltimore), David Speer (Jackson), Hal Spencer (Providence), Carol J. Williams (Seattle)
1981 – Paul Davenport (Phoenix), Dan Day (Milwaukee), John Flesher (Raleigh), Len Iwanski (Bismarck), Ed McCullough (Albany), Drusilla Menaker (Philadelphia), Kim Mills (New York), Mark Mittelstadt (Des Moines), Roland Rochet (New York), Lee Siegel (Seattle), Marty Steinberg (Baltimore), Bill Vogrin (Kansas City)
1982 – Dorothy Abernathy (Little Rock), Al Behrman (Cincinnati), Tom Cohen (Jefferson City), John Epperson (Chicago), Ric Feld (Atlanta), Nick Geranios (Helena), Howard Gros (New Orleans), Robert Kimball (New York), Rob Kozloff (Detroit), Bill Menezes (Kansas City), David Ochs (New York)
1983 – Scott Charton (Little Rock), Sue Cross (Columbus), Mark Elias (Chicago), Diana Heidgerd (Miami), Sheila Norman-Culp (New York), Carol Esler Ochs (New York), Amy Sancetta (Philadelphia), Rande Simpson (New York), Dave Skidmore (Milwaukee)
1984 – Owen Canfield (Oklahoma City), Wayne Chin (Washington), Jack Elliott (Oklahoma City), Kelly P. Kissel (New Orleans), Joe Macenka (Richmond), Eva Parziale (San Francisco), Keith Robinson (Columbus), Cliff Schiappa (Kansas City), David Sedeño (Dallas), Andrew Selsky (Cheyenne), Patty Woodrow (Washington)
1985 – Beth Grace (Columbus), Betty Kumpf Pizac (Los Angeles)
1986 – Joni Baluh Beall (Richmond), David Beard (Jackson), Tom Coyne (Columbia, SC), Dave DeGrace (Milwaukee), Alan Flippen (Louisville), Jim Gerberich (San Francisco), Howard Goldberg (New York), Mark Hamrick (Dallas), Sandy Kozel (Washington), Robert Meyers (London)
1987 – Donna Abu-Nasr (Beirut), Dave Bauder (Albany), Chuck Burton (Charlotte), Beth Harris (Indianapolis), Lynne Harris (New York), Steven L. Herman (Charleston, WVa), Rosemarie Mileto (New York), John Rogers (Los Angeles)
1988 – Chris Carola (Albany), Peg Coughlin (Pierre), Kathy Gannon (Islamabad), Steve Hart (Washington), Melissa Jordan (Sioux Falls), Bill Pilc (New York), Kelley Shannon (Dallas)
1989 – Ted Bridis (Oklahoma City), Charlie Arbogast (Trenton), Ron Fournier (Little Rock)
1990 – Frank Fisher (Jackson), Dan Perry (Bucharest), Steve Sakson (Baltimore), Sean Thompson (New York)
1991 – Amanda Kell (Richmond), Santiago Lyon (Cairo), Lisa Pane (Hartford), Ricardo Reif (Caracas), Bill Sikes (Buffalo)
1992 – Kerry Huggard (New York)
1993 – Jim Salter (St. Louis)
1995 – Donna Tommelleo (Hartford)
1996 – Patricia N. Casillo (New York)
1997 – J. David Ake (Chicago), Pamela Collins (Dallas), Madhu Krishnappa Maron (New York), Jim Suhr (Detroit), Jennifer Yates (Baltimore)
2000 – Gary Gentile (Los Angeles)
2006 – Jon Gambrell (Little Rock)
| Today in History – July 11, 2024 | |
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Today is Thursday, July 11, the 193rd day of 2024. There are 173 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On July 11, 1995, the U.N.-designated “safe haven” of Srebrenica (sreh-breh-NEET’-sah) in Bosnia-Herzegovina fell to Bosnian Serb forces, who subsequently carried out the killings of more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys.
Also on this date:
In 1798, the U.S. Marine Corps was formally re-established by a congressional act that also created the U.S. Marine Band.
In 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton during a pistol duel in Weehawken, New Jersey. (Hamilton died the next day.)
In 1859, Big Ben, the great bell inside the famous London clock tower, chimed for the first time.
In 1864, Confederate forces led by General Jubal Early began an abortive invasion of Washington, D.C., turning back the next day.
In 1914, Babe Ruth made his Major League baseball debut, pitching the Boston Red Sox to a 4-3 victory over Cleveland.
In 1921, fighting in the Irish War of Independence ended with a truce.
In 1960, Harper Lee’s novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” was published.
In 1972, the World Chess Championship opened as grandmasters Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union began play in Reykjavik, Iceland. (Fischer won after 21 games.)
In 1979, the abandoned U.S. space station Skylab made a spectacular return to Earth, burning up in the atmosphere and showering debris over the Indian Ocean and Australia.
In 1991, a Nigeria Airways DC-8 carrying Muslim pilgrims crashed at the Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, international airport, killing all 261 people on board.
In 2006, eight bombs hit a commuter rail network during evening rush hour in Mumbai, India, killing more than 200 people.
In 2022, President Joe Biden revealed the first image from NASA’s new space telescope, the farthest humanity had ever seen in both time and distance, closer to the dawn of the universe and the edge of the cosmos.
Today’s Birthdays: Fashion designer Giorgio Armani is 90. Actor Susan Seaforth Hayes is 81. Actor Bruce McGill is 74. Actor Stephen Lang is 72. Actor Mindy Sterling is 71. Actor Sela Ward is 68. Reggae singer Michael Rose (Black Uhuru) is 67. Singer Peter Murphy (Bauhaus) is 67. Actor Mark Lester is 66. Saxophonist Kirk Whalum is 66. Singer Suzanne Vega is 65. Rock guitarist Richie Sambora (Bon Jovi) is 65. Actor Lisa Rinna is 61. Author Jhumpa Lahiri is 57. Wildlife expert Jeff Corwin is 57. Actor Justin Chambers (TV: “Grey’s Anatomy”) is 54. Actor Michael Rosenbaum (TV: “Smallville”) is 52. Rapper Lil’ Kim is 50. U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona is 49. Pro Football Hall of Famer Andre Johnson is 43. Pop-jazz singer-musician Peter Cincotti is 41. Actor Serinda Swan is 40. Actor David Henrie is 35. Actor Connor Paolo is 34. Tennis player Caroline Wozniacki is 34. R&B/pop singer Alessia Cara is 28.
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- Connecting "selfies" - a word and photo self-profile of you and your career, and what you are doing today. Both for new members and those who have been with us a while.
- Second chapters - You finished a great career. Now tell us about your second (and third and fourth?) chapters of life.
- Spousal support - How your spouse helped in supporting your work during your AP career.
- My most unusual story - tell us about an unusual, off the wall story that you covered.
- "A silly mistake that you make"- a chance to 'fess up with a memorable mistake in your journalistic career.
- Multigenerational AP families - profiles of families whose service spanned two or more generations.
- Volunteering - benefit your colleagues by sharing volunteer stories - with ideas on such work they can do themselves.
- First job - How did you get your first job in journalism?
- Most unusual place a story assignment took you.
Paul Stevens
Editor, Connecting newsletter
paulstevens46@gmail.com
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