Sunday, January 31, 2010

Send a card

›
Bill Hickey, former tv critic and instigator of the infamous Sake Bowl, is battling cancer, reports Dan Coughlin. You can send Bill a card a...

All his sources are in jail

›
Reporter Joe Wagner said he had to retire from the PD. All his sources are in jail, he told about 50 people at Massimo de Milano Thursday, J...

Look who you missed

›
About 30 mostly PD alumni gathered for their quarterly luncheon at Der Braumeister on the West Side Friday, Jan. 29, 2010. In the crowd: ...

Eat and greet

›
More faces at the lunch: Jud Shelnutt and his wife Marty; Patti Graziano and husband Tim; "It really happened," Don Bean tells Chr...

More diners

›
Among the diners were Richard Conway, Bill Wynne, Bob Finn, Tom Gaumer and Helen Cullinan, top; Donna Hayes, right. Millie and Vince Matt...
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Chris Pettridge retires!

›
Here's a note from Chris: Yes, I bailed out at the end of the year from the Post-Gazette, and it feels very strange now, living a deadli...

Do you blog?

›
Here's note from John Kroll: I'm sure many former PDers are now writing blogs, or even using Twitter. Could you use your blog to tel...
Saturday, January 16, 2010

Party time for Joe

›
Former Plain Dealer colleagues and associates -- Joe Wagner left the PD rather quietly (for such a vocal guy), after a long and legendary ca...
Friday, January 08, 2010

Next Lunch Bunch scheduled for Jan. 29

›
PD Editorial Retirees & Expatriates Casual unstructured lunch troupe Gather for lunch on the last Fridays of January, April, July and Oc...
Thursday, January 07, 2010

Bob Stock's Advice for Journalists

›
In light of all the deaths, memorials, funerals on this blog in recent months, it was decided to run this piece from the late reporter Bob ...
Monday, January 04, 2010

More tributes to Dick Zunt

›
The funeral eulogy by Dan Coughlin: http:// videos.cleveland.com/plain-dealer/2010/01/dan_coughlin_eulogizes_dick_zu.html Richard Ellers who...
1 comment:

Dan Coughlin's Farewell to Dick Zunt

›
Goodbye, Zip As you know by now, former Plain Dealer sportswriter Dick Zunt died of cancer Saturday morning. The final week was not eas...
Friday, January 01, 2010

Dick "Zip" Zunt dies in hospice

›
Dick "Zip" Zunt, a longtime high school sports reporter, died Saturday morning, Jan. 2 in the Hospice of The Western Reserve. He w...
Sunday, December 20, 2009

Russ Kane dies

›
Russ Kane, former city editor, copy editor, promotions director, died Sunday, Dec. 20, 2009 in the VA hospital in Palo Alto, Calif. His daug...
Saturday, December 12, 2009

Still more to learn at 90

›
Jean Elsner, the wife of the late editorial writer Sid Elsner, got a nice front page story on Wed, Dec. 12, about her still taking classes a...

Harry West revisited

›
Pat and Ralph Gessler had breakfast with Harry West at the Paris hotel in Las Vegas in September. West, a former features editor, isn...
Sunday, December 06, 2009

Russ Kane has stroke

›
Russ Kane, who had a stroke Nov. 25, is in Palo Alto, Calif. VA hospital . He's in building 100, ward 4A, the hospice unit. Russ was a...
Monday, November 30, 2009

Alumni invited to Book Sale

›
The Plain Dealer Holiday Book Sale is on deck for Thursday, Dec. 3 from 3-5:30 p.m. in the second floor community room. Security Guards have...
Sunday, October 18, 2009

Tales of Snyderman

›
 Seems that there are a few domestic tales about the late Bob Snyder, aka Snyderman, in the book just out by his widow Pat Snyder, "The...
Thursday, October 08, 2009

Friday, Oct. 30 Luncheon Date

›
PD Editorial Retirees & Expatriates Casual unstructured lunch troupe Gather for lunch on the last Friday of January, April, July and Oct...