Former Press reporter Betty Klaric died Thursday, Feb. 24. She was the first female president of Local 1, the Newspaper Guild.
Grant Segal's obit says she also galvanized the environmental movement.
"All that was just in her first career. When the Cleveland Press folded, she became a government lawyer.
Klaric, 79, died at the Hospice of the Western Reserve from complications of brain cancer.
In 1964, she persuaded editors to give her one of the first full-time environmental beats on a daily newspaper. Her stories on the Cuyahoga River helped inspire sweeping environmental laws, a presidential commendation, a gubernatorial award and more."
For the complete obit got to:
http://www.cleveland.com/obituaries/index.ssf/2011/02/betty_klaric_was_a_pioneering.html
