Dan Biddle, author

Former Plain Dealer reporter and all-around great guy Dan Biddle (and some other guy) wrote a great book called "Tasting Freedom" about the early days of the civil rights movement. I just spent a week with Dan and Cindy Roberts and they are lovely as ever.
You can go here to read some excerpts or skip to the bottom of this message to get to the link to amazon.com if you'd like to order the book. Spread the word about the book.. I'm sure Dan will be in Cleveland for a book signing one of these days. I'll keep you posted. - Jack Hagan

http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1839_reg.html

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Look who we ran into

Lots of former PD people were spotted Sat. night July 31, 2010 at a birthday party for Sue Zimmerman, former free lancer for the PD now teaching at KSU.
Former bureau chief George Condon Jr. right, of Washington, D.C. was back in town visiting his father who was in the hospital. George is now with Congressional Daily since Copley closed its Washington Bureau.
With Sue Zimmerman, right, is Betsy Lammerding, retired Beacon Journal deputy features editor.,
Below them is former reporter Tom Andrzejewski, now a media consultant, and Terry Pederson, former Living editor and now a writer for a Cleveland Clinic publication. Wilma Salisbury, former dance critic, sits with Tom A. Former photographer Diana McNees didn't have a camera but Paula Slimak, former reporter, did. Bob McAuley chats with Doug Kramer, who still works at the PD as a copy editor.
Also there were Jim Cox, former PD reporter and now a media consulant, and Jim Darr, who works for the Bond Accountability Commission which works with Cleveland Schools.