Comments on: Rocky recollections: 150 years of stories, memories

By: Susan Greedy Roberts

Susan Greedy Roberts — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 02:34:00 +0000

Mr. McLaughlin, I was pleased to read tonight that my daughter Rebecca had contacted you. Eric, who states that he is Max Greedy’s grandson contacted her. Thank you for facilitating that. I only knew about Max and Elsie’s son Alan. I have tried over the years to contact him but was unsuccessful. As a young girl I remember Max and Elsie visiting our family. I remember gifts that they gave me for Christmas. Thank you again for your help. Sincerely, Susan Roberts

By: Makaela

Makaela — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 06:45:18 +0000

Wham bam thank you, maam, my questions are ansewred!

By: Rebecca Callahan

Rebecca Callahan — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:18:01 +0000

Mr. McLaughlin,
I am doing some geneology research and Max Greedy is an ancestor of mine who I have been trying to research. I noticed that you mentioned him in your comment. Do you have any information/knowledge about him or his family that might be useful to me? How long he worked at the newspaper, how long he lived in Denver, etc. I would appreciate any memories that you might have. Thank you!
Rebecca Callahan
3030 N. Cherokee Lane
Provo, UT 84604
rccallahan@gmail.com

By: ChinaMr

ChinaMr — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:40:11 +0000

I look forward to BOTH of your books

By: Alexandre Giesbrecht

Alexandre Giesbrecht — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:07:54 +0000

I had to check here today, at least to pay my tributes to a paper that should be celebrating its 150th anniversary today. It’s sad that it’s not.

About the JFK assassination, my father tells me the story when my granpa learned about it. Well, sort of. Someone told him the president was killed. Since we live in Brazil, which was governed in 1963 by a leftist who would be expelled from the country the next year, my granpa celebrated the news. Then he was told it was not the Brazilian president who was killed, but the American one. And then he was truly sad.

By: Jeannie Patton

Jeannie Patton — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:38:51 +0000

Mike, I remember meeting you at Steamboat in 1986 or thereabouts when you were coving the ski jumping at Howelsen Hill, cross country racing at the (then) Village Inn golf course, and other nordic events involving US Ski Team members. We also had many laughs in Jackson Hole, and on countless ski runs at your beloved Winter Park, my old Steamboat, and other fine places. I look forward to BOTH of your books.

I grew up in Denver in the 1950′s where the Rocky Mountain News was my delightful companion when I downed Cheerios with bananas every morning prior to setting off to St. Vincent de Paul grade school, St. Francis de Sales and George Washington High Schools, and on the occasional visits home when I attended college. It has been the newspaper of choice all my life, and I feel a hole in my heart now that it’s gone. All those great columns….

Thanks for everything! JP

By: J.P. McLaughlin

J.P. McLaughlin — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:49:23 +0000

Mike, I, too, enjoyed your “150 years” immensely and look forward to your book.
The Rocky was my first journalism job out of college. Vince Dwyer and Max Greedy hired me, with Jack Foster’s approval, of course, and put me on the copy desk, where Hal Heffron was the slot man. I also worked with Pete Chronis, Paul Page, Ed English, Gene “Moon” Mullins, Ralph Veatch, Clair Jordon and others on the News Desk.
I worked there for just over 20 of the next 25 or so years, coming and going twice, once fired, twice resigned. They were great years, and I still miss the noisy backshop of the hot-type days. It all changed after that, very little of it for the best in my biased memory.
You were also one of the very few supervisors that I respected and liked working for. Sometimes I’m sure you had a hard time believing that, knowing me, but it’s true. Thanks for the memories.
jp
p.s. I’m still editing for four clients on a freelance basis. Just turned 70 this year, and I help coach my 12-year-old grandson’s baseball team. Full retirement ain’t in the cards, yet.

By: Lori in Denver

Lori in Denver — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:47:06 +0000

I thought it would get easier with time, but every morning I still mourn the loss of my Rocky. I am far from alone.

Best wishes with the book!

By: Rohan

Rohan — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:42:51 +0000

I always thought that was a really bad move by EW Scripps to close down the Rocky that close to its 150th birthday. Love reading that newspaper, hopefully the spirit of the Rocky Mountain News will live on for a very long time here at INDT.com. Mike, good luck on writing your book.

By: Michelle Schneider Rush

Michelle Schneider Rush — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:29:07 +0000

Hey, Mike,
I enjoyed reading your “150 years” (almost) series and look forward to buying your book.

I quite literally grew up at the Rocky, starting there when I was 25 and leaving just shy of my 45th birthday. I always appreciated your steady hand in the newsroom and your fair, professional approach as a manager and journalist.

Good luck on the book — and it’s great to see you writing.

Michelle Schneider Rush