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Retired Washington staffer W. Dale Nelson, now living in Laramie, WY, has received the biography award of the Wyoming Historical Association for his book, Interpreters with Lewis and Clark, which tells the story of Sacagawea, her husband Toussaint Charbonneau and their son, Jean Baptiste. The book is published by the University of North Texas Press. * Joe Jamieson, long-time AP photo editor in the Washington bureau, and his wife, Judith, celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary Sept. 2, 2003 at the home of their daughter, Mrs. Judy Lentz, in Bethesda, MD.
“It was good to get to visit with him,” Patrick said. “Both Joe and Judith looked real good. “Joe and I go way back. We became friends when we worked together and we would go to lunch together when the work and schedules allowed.”Patrick worked on the Washington AP photo staff 47 years, retiring in 1997. Jamieson had retired in the early ‘70s. Others at the anniversary party included a friend from Florida, three from Pennsylvania, a grandson who flew in from Los Angeles, and several friends from the Washington area. Joe, who celebrated his 97th birthday last June 21, and Judith recently moved from their retirement home in Arizona to an independent living community at Silver Spring, Md. Their family includes two daughters and four grandsons. * World War II documents that belonged to the late Spencer Davis, an Associated Press war correspondent, have been donated to the USS Missouri Memorial Association. The papers include an original report on the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, an annotated draft of Davis' dispatch filed after the Sept. 2, 1945, surrender ceremony aboard the USS Missouri and detailed "War Diary" accounts of the war in the Pacific. * It’s A Small World Thompson retired at the end of 1995 and lives at Venice, Fla. Cordell and his wife, Frances, live in Dallas but travel frequently in search of objects for her antique business. “My wife and I were in Italy to evaluate the antiques market, and to attend the Parma antiques fair, the largest in Europe.” Cordell explained. On the same trip, they visited their daughter, who is in the Air Force and was then based at Aviano, a few miles north of Venice. Cordell spent almost 25 years with AP, serving as bureau chief in New Haven, Louisville, Denver, New Orleans and Dallas. He retired from the AP in 1982, and went on to spend five years with the A. H. Belo Corp. (Dallas Morning News.) He subsequently worked with the National Center for Policy Analysis, based in Dallas, and as a newspaper broker until he retired completely in 2002. Thompson joined AP at Dallas in 1961. He was on the news desk when President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 and he was on the news desk at the NASA Space Center in Houston four years later when the Apollo space vehicle exploded, killing three astronauts. He moved to New York, via New Orleans, serving as membership executive, general executive, deputy personnel director with Tom Pendergast, and finally director of labor relations for AP. Thompson and his wife are avid skiers and have worked their way through most of the major slopes in the United States. With a daughter and grandchildren in London, Thompson said, they have incentives to visit Europe frequently. |
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Ralph Keibler reports that his Web site has re-united two friends. After 15 years, AP retiree Paul Treuthardt was re-united via email with a secretary from the job he had prior to joining the AP. Last May, Keibler received an email from a French native living in Germany, asking for updated contact information for Paul Treuthardt, an former AP reporter who later reported on Formula 1 racing. Email sent to the address listed on Keibler's site was bouncing back. Keibler forwarded the request to AP retiree Lou Clark who did some online sleuthing and uncovered a number of Web links that referenced Treuthardt and Formula 1 racing. Based on the information available on those Web sites, Clark learned that Treuthardt "used to live on a houseboat in Paris while working for the Associated Press." Armed with this information, Clark narrowed his search and found another clue as to Treuthardt's whereabouts at www.grandprix.com in an article titled "How to become a Formula 1 Journalist" which mentioned Paul Treuthardt, "an Australian who was trained as a journalist on the Sydney Daily Mirror and then turned to news agency work, ending up in Paris, living on a houseboat on the River Seine, just opposite the FIA headquarters." With more digging, Clark was able to find Treuthardt's most recent email address which he forwarded to the friend who originally requested the new contact information from Keibler. The next day, Clark got a reply saying "Your help has proved fantastic, the last E-mail address you gave me is the right one and Paul replied." Keibler contacted Treuthardt and received a reply explaining that the friend who had been looking for him had been his secretary in the job he had prior to joining the AP. He added that it was "the first and last time" he ever had a secretary. The two had lost contact when Treuthardt moved to London in 1987 but were happy to be in contact again more than a decade later. As Lou Clark said, "It makes you feel good when you can lend a helpful hand." Keibler agreed that he was grateful that his Web site had initiated the search. * Former AP staffer John C. Eagan has retired as publisher of Marin Scope Community Newspapers, a group of six community weekly newspapers in Marin County, California. Eagan was with AP for 12 years, as a newsman in San Francisco, news editor in Sacramento, news editor and assistant bureau chief in Chicago and assistant bureau chief in Los Angeles. He also spent 12 years with Scripps League Newspapers in California, at the Napa Register, Petaluma Argus-Courier and Novato Advance. Previously he worked for the Ft. Lauderdale News and Sun Sentinel in Florida. A Florida native, he graduated from the University of Florida in 1960. He also served with the U.S. Army in Ft. Jackson, S.C. and Baumholder, Germany during the 1950s. You can contact him at: |
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Hugh Mulligan was featured in The Danbury News-Times (Dec. 2002) in an article titled "Retired newsman pens Sherlock Mystery. When Mulligan was a foreign correspondent with the Associated Press, he was based at its London office for 10 years. During that time, he developed a love of the ambiance of England and renewed his childhood fascination with the Sherlock Holmes mysteries set there. "A Christmas to Forget at 221B" is available for purchase on Amazon.com * Former AP staffer Gaylord Shaw, now retired in Duncan, Okla., reminisced in an interview with The Lawton (Okla) Constitution, about his most frightening professional moment which came while working in Washington. Going on a trusted informant's tip, Shaw was the first to report that President Nixon was going to resign. The story hung on the wire for more than half an hour before Nixon's press secretary announced that the president was going to address the nation that night and, in fact, resign. "It was the most nerve-racking 38 minutes of my life,'" Shaw said. `"God bless AP for having the guts to go out with it.'" Shaw worked for the AP in Oklahoma City and Washington, and later worked for the Los Angeles Times where won the 1978 Pulitizer Prize for National Reporting. * Dale Nelson finally made it; as a Shakespearian actor, that is. Cleartime reported a couple of years ago that Nelson was in rehearsal to play King Duncan in a University of Wyoming production. Then we reported in the September, 2000, Cleartime that his hopes were dashed when he fell while leaving a rehearsal. In a tumble off a loading dock, he suffered a bruised hip and fractures in his left arm. Now, writes Nelson, "I finally made it." He played the role of Iago in a Laramie Theater Guild production of "Othello." "It was a great experience, and gave me a chance to put all my evil impulses on public display," said Nelson. * Chuck Welsh received an unusual accolade on his 89th birthday June 10, 2002. It was a Sunday. and Msgr. Richard Behl, his priest at St. Francis Assisi Church in Metuchen, N.J., sang "Happy Birthday" to Chuck from the pulpit. The entire congregation then applauded. |
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A Queen Interviewing a Reporter? Rodney approached, breathlessly. "I just want to thank you and the others for being so polite to me during my visit," said Queen Elizabeth, referring to the reporters and photographers who'd been left behind. "Will you do that for me?" "Yes, Your Highness," Rodney replied. "I'll try." Then, with her legendary charm, Rodney recalls that the Queen began non-stop questions about the AP, about his home state of Colorado and about his student days in the garrets of Paris. Royal flattery is powerful -- and a very effective defense mechanism. "I couldn't even get in a "How'd you like your trip?" he muses. * Retired Special Correspondent John Roderick was the subject of a Personality Profile in the Japan Time Online (Nov. 17, 2001). Now 87, he lives during Japan's cold weather in Honolulu, and travels for part of each year. * Charles A. Price reports that in retirement, he's involved with restoration of airplanes at the Museum of Flight's restoration center at Paine Field, Everett, (Wash.) Price was given an old copy of "Aircraft Year Book - 1921" and passes along this AP Sighting from the seventh chapter: Associated Press Utilizes Aircraft * Ralph Keibler reports that "retirement is GREAT!" He's been working on a new, larger version of his Web site. Ralph and his wife, Eleanor invite friends to visit the site at: www.apretirees.net. |
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