Meyland retires
Leger Meyland, our Harley-ridin', jean-wearin', hair-flowin' photo assignment editor, has decided to retire at the end of the year. That hurts. Leger signed on with us in 1989 as a photographer, working for our People & Places section in High Point. Even though we eventually promoted him into a management job, he remained a shooter at heart. Photos of last year's Cedar Street fire are his.
And he was one of the newsroom's characters, and I mean that in the fondest way. As Photo Director Rob Brown said in the staff announcement of his retirement: "Some of the jobs you may have noticed him doing include: Staff Meteorologist, Carolina Basketball Prognosticator, Irving Park Society Expert, Foremost Authority on The Farmer's Almanac, Solar Flare Alert Team Leader, Right Hand (or is it left?) of Fidel Castro and Chairman Mao, and Friend to All. We will miss him dearly around here."
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It should also be noted that during a previous administration, someone got the bright idea to NOT have Leger be photo assignment editor, and our photo operations went straight to ... ahem, well, let's just say we in News were darned glad to get Leger back on that desk and darned sorry to see him go.
He said, by the way, that he knew it was time to retire when he woke up the other day and found a gray hair (not in his beard). By that criterion, some of us would have retired at 25.
Posted on December 18, 2006 2:19 PM
My wife still talks constantly about the cheddar biscuits he brought into the office a few times.
It'll be a different place without him. The smiling, can-do attitude is disappearing in this business.
Posted on December 20, 2006 4:10 PM