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Atlantic City Journalists
Reunite Near Boardwalk
(April 2007) The first-ever reunion of current and former journalists
from The
Atlantic City Press is expected to be an orgy of wit, friendship,
fond memories, anti-intellectualism,
alcohol and sand in our shoes. Did someone say something about Bob and
Dan's?
 Of
course, Sheehan
World publisher
Kathy Sheehan will be at the reunion,
as will #1 Ooooh Baby Donna Connor (seen at right
with Sheehan and Pete Mattiace in 2002) whom event
organizer John
Froonjian says "knows
more people than the Census."
According to Froonjian, a "lifer" at The Press, the list
of those attending The Atlantic
City Press reunion this
month (along with Froonjian's descriptions -- The Sheehan World disclaims
any liability for false or scandalous biographical information) includes:
- Connie (Barrie) and Frank Corrado
- Kathy
Brennan, whose giggle was the most downloaded
audio file on iTunes in 2005
- The incomparable Cindy Burton, who negotiated a
hot tub for her office in the recent Newspaper Guild talks at The
Philadelphia Inquirer (Unfortunately they fired Tom Turcol to
pay for it.)
- Joe
Donohue, still at the Newark Star-Ledger but
creating viruses for political web sites on the side
- Carla Linz and her death-defying liver
- Joyce Vanaman, who retired and now writes only seven
stories a week for The Press
- Charlie Wray, who owns the original Diving Horse
 Of
course, you couldn't have a Press reunion without TAFKAE
(The Alice Formerly
Known As Eckerson). Alice Cranston as she is now known,
pictured below with Pete Mattiace and Kathy Sheehan in Atlantic City
in 2002, will tear
herself
away from her grandchildren for a day or so and come out of retirement
to join her colleagues in telling funny and/or creepy stories about Bob
Ebener, Chuck Reynolds and others.
Also attending The Atlantic
City Press reunion will be:
- Mary Jo (Layton), member of the Bergen Record team that won a $25,000
journalism award. (Unfortunately after sharing it with reporters, editors,
copyboys and subscribers, Mary Jo had to pay $175.)
- Mike "Here Come Da" Judge
- Debbie Lucia and Danny Drake, who has been ordered by Lucia to stop
throwing their children into the poker pot
- Bart Jones, Hugo Chavez' ghostwriter
- Peggy and Alyn Ackermann
- Janet Niedosik, who mellowed into a softie once she discovered
the joys of making wine
- Randy Brandt, whose views on journalism can
be read in publications,
on web sites and on bathroom walls across the country, and the
lovely and
talented
Bonnie,
formerly of the Hollies
- Elaine Matsushita. REALLY!
- Rose Ellis, New Age love goddess who found
the meaning of life in the ashtray of an abandoned Chevy Impala
- Joe Tanfani,
who still doesn't give a #!$%*.
- Mona Moore, who is laughing at us
from retirement
- Stephanie (Zatwaska), gossip columnist for the Vatican
newspaper L'Osservatore Romano
- Susan Kille and
Tom Sawyer, who are in charge of hiring at The
New York Times, and
whose departure at the Atlantic City Press in 1977 paved the way for
Sheehan's employment there
- Chuck Dingee, Sheehan's "trophy husband" who
never worked at The Press, but will be selling the Walrus
CD of original
classic rock
music.
Sadly, some of Sheehan's favorite people from her Atlantic City days
will not be attending. That includes Mattiace (not his month to travel
from Colorado to New Jersey), Nicole Pensiero (something
about a surgery preventing her from being there) and Carol
Servino who recently moved from Oregon to Las Vegas. Ahhh,
but we got pictures
of some of these rascals during a trip to the East
Coast a few years ago. Sheehan is still looking around for old Atlantic
City photos to post ....
About The Sheehan World:
The Sheehan World is the world's leading online newspaper for
all things important in Kathy Sheehan's world and has been in continuous
circulation since 1995. To read a blog that Kathy contributes to, go
to: http://captkathy.prweblogs.com/
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