http://www.courantalumni.org/2009/03/31/jim-ks-last-gift-to-us/ Where The Latest On Former Hartford Courant Employees Can Be Found Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:18:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.courantalumni.org/2009/03/31/jim-ks-last-gift-to-us/comment-page-1/#comment-614 Steve Courtney Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:33:05 +0000 http://www.courantalumni.org/?p=1423#comment-614 I was away and missed this sad news. Jim was such an easy guy to work with, which is not to say he didn't have strong opinions when they were needed. As a copy editor, I appreciated the fact that he had been an editor and actually took the time to read the stuff he designed. His series on historic churches in the region was memorable and shone in the pages of the Courant. He did the map for the book I co-edited, The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell, in 2005, and the publishers commented on its clarity and how it conveyed difficult information with reader-friendliness. But mostly I remember the occasional visits to his pod in graphics to get a minor change made and the cooperation and good humor he always displayed. Everyone who worked at the Courant during his time there will miss him so much. I was away and missed this sad news. Jim was such an easy guy to work with, which is not to say he didn’t have strong opinions when they were needed. As a copy editor, I appreciated the fact that he had been an editor and actually took the time to read the stuff he designed. His series on historic churches in the region was memorable and shone in the pages of the Courant. He did the map for the book I co-edited, The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell, in 2005, and the publishers commented on its clarity and how it conveyed difficult information with reader-friendliness. But mostly I remember the occasional visits to his pod in graphics to get a minor change made and the cooperation and good humor he always displayed. Everyone who worked at the Courant during his time there will miss him so much.

]]> http://www.courantalumni.org/2009/03/31/jim-ks-last-gift-to-us/comment-page-1/#comment-610 Amy Ash Nixon Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:11:33 +0000 http://www.courantalumni.org/?p=1423#comment-610 Lovely tribute to Jim today for the alumni to treasure. I looked at the clock from up here in Northern Vermont at 4 p.m. with tears in my eyes and blew sweet Jim a kiss...I'm sure he would have beamed at the love and beauty everyone from the paper brought to the celebration of his beautiful life, well-lived, well-loved. Lovely tribute to Jim today for the alumni to treasure. I looked at the clock from up here in Northern Vermont at 4 p.m. with tears in my eyes and blew sweet Jim a kiss…I’m sure he would have beamed at the love and beauty everyone from the paper brought to the celebration of his beautiful life, well-lived, well-loved.

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