How Ray Shaw made an impression on one ACBJ reporter
July 20, 2009
Jennifer Nycz-Conner, a reporter at the Washington Business Journal, remembers one of the first times she met her boss, American City Business Journals chairman Ray Shaw, who died suddenly on Sunday.
Nycz-Conner writes, “Our editor and friend John McCalla passed away very suddenly in 2007, and Ray and our former editor Beth Hunt found a way to get from Charlotte to our newsroom in mere hours after we heard to be with our staff. It was a gesture that said more than any words ever could, and it stays with me to this day as a light on a very dark day.
“The Washington Post has a quote from Neil Armstrong today that caught my attention: ‘We’d all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.’
“Somehow, I can’t help but think how much that seems to apply to Ray, who made this large company feel like a family business.”
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How Ray Shaw made an impression on one ACBJ reporter
July 20, 2009
Jennifer Nycz-Conner, a reporter at the Washington Business Journal, remembers one of the first times she met her boss, American City Business Journals chairman Ray Shaw, who died suddenly on Sunday.
“The Washington Post has a quote from Neil Armstrong today that caught my attention: ‘We’d all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.’
“Somehow, I can’t help but think how much that seems to apply to Ray, who made this large company feel like a family business.”
Read more here.
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