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Winter 2004
Retiree Howard Graves sends tearsheets from all over the world back to AP bureaus to thrill staffers who may never otherwise see their work in print, writes Steve Elliott, deputy director of content development for Newspaper & New Media Markets. Cleartime reports on an APME First Amendment Fund honor given to retired President and CEO Louis D. Boccardi, plus Pulitzer Prize winner Joe Rosenthal visits 50 Rock, New York State News Director Marty Thompson retires and heads out west, Kansas City retiree Ralph Keibler wins an “outstanding alumnus” award, Pulitzer Prize winner Max Desfor turns 90 in Maryland, and retirees Larry Stephens of Washington, Charlie Bruce of Miami and Steve Graham head to Quebec for a 13th annual staff fishing trip.

Fall 2003
Stockholm COB Pierre-Yves Glass profiles Ed Shanke, who opened AP’s first Swedish bureau and became chief of Scandinavian services. Cleartime tells how AP retirees Bob Thomas and Bob Macy each earned assists on Buddy Hackett’s obit. Also: a major gift to U.C. Berkeley from Jim Lagier, a new book from the widow of war correspondent Richard Kilroy O’Malley, and Ed Staats’ induction into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame. Photos of celebrations from the Tokyo bureau, and retirements of Vice President and Director of World Services Claude Erbsen, Administrative Director Emma Gilbert, Office Clerk Sher Singh Gosain and Atlanta Sportswriter Tommy Saladino.

Summer 2003
Cleartime interviews Edward Blanton "Blant" Kimbell, who helped set up AP’s first computer center and high-speed transmission systems for stock tables and news wires. Plus, new books from current and former AP staff, including Richard Pyle and Horst Faas, Hal Buell, Morris Engelberg and Marv Schneider, Walter R. Mears, and Hugh Mulligan. Photos of retirement celebrations for assistant international editor Frank Crepeau, Chicago newswoman Margaret Scherf, Washington newsman Larry Knutson and photo editor Harris MacBeth.

Winter 2002/2003
Carson City correspondent Brendan Riley profiles Bob Geiger, one of AP’s oldest retirees. Retired aerospace writer Howard Benedict is recognized by the Kennedy Space Center. Plus, photos of retirement celebrations for chief of Iberian services Kernan Turner, Tokyo newsman Shigeoyoshi Kimera and London technical services manager Tony Keefe.

Summer 2002
AP memorial for former AP president Keith Fuller. Also: retirement celebrations for Miami assistant chief of communications Timothy Litsch, executive director of international business management for Dow Jones Newswires Ely Antar, Omaha chief of communications Bill Caddell, Pennsylvania chief of communications Ray Goergen, Pulitzer-winning photographer and senior technical systems manager Neal Ulevich, technical systems manager Steve Graham, executive assistant Ann McLaughlin, communications manager Phil Emanuel, chief of communications Billy D. Pratt, Louisville chief of bureau Ed Staats, assistant chief of communications Roy Hays, Florida technician Eldon Cort, Dallas chief of communications Tom Dallas, Tokyo chief accountant Akira Ogawa and Chicago photographer Fred Jewell.

July 2001
Lou Boccardi awarded the 2001 John Peter and Anna Catherine Zenger Award for Freedom of the Press. Detroit’s Charles Cain posthumously inducted into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame. AP’s oldest retiree, Norman E. Bell, dies at age 101. Also: photos AP’s 25-Year Club Dinner, retirements for Kansas City technical communications manager Ralph Keibler and editorial assistant Wayne Robertson, a Lifetime Achievement Award for retired special correspondent George Esper, and a memorial for Kerem Lawton, APTN producer killed by mortar fire in Kosovo.

April 2001
Lou Boccardi testifies before Congressional committee to defend the First Amendment. Retired vice president and special correspondent Walter Mears addresses the 25-Year Club dinner in New York City. Montana capitol’s pressroom named for AP correspondent J.D. Holmes. Plus, retirement celebrations for Miami photo editor Phil Sandlin, London administrative executive Eileen Murray, General Desk supervisor Bruce Hodgman, and a sixtieth anniversary photo of Bud and Dorothy Wylie.

December 2000
One sailor’s account of a pivotal Pacific battle of WWII becomes grist for a Memorial Day 2000 story by Chuck Welsh. Max Desfor’s Pulitzer photograph is reproduced on a large scale at Korea’s War Memorial stadium, and Rodney Angove recounts frustrations encountered while covering violence during Algerian independence. Plus, retirement celebrations for special correspondent George Esper, technician Don Foster, Newsfeatures writer Mary Campbell, Tokyo darkroom staffer Fujio Yokoyama, New York communications programmer Herbert Leiner, technical services manager Richard Flemming, Milwaukee newsman Peter Seymour and Albuquerque chief of communications Vernon Little.

September 2000
APTN’s Miguel Gil Moreno de Mora, killed in Sierra Leone is AP’s 25th journalist to die in the line of duty. Special correspondent Hugh Mulligan addresses more than 225 attendees at 25-Year Club service dinner in New York City. Plus, retirement celebrations for Mulligan, Seattle chief of communications Charlie Price, Salt Lake City chief of communications Louis Tipping, Seattle assistant chief of communications Patrick Carrico, Charlotte technician Elijah Smith, Jackson, Miss. technician George Harris, Las Vegas correspondent Bob Macy, and Tokyo assistant business manager Kinko Samejima.

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