Another note from a Schlosser fan
I meant to post this earlier, but I won't let another day go by without a nod to a reporter's reporter, Jim Schlosser.
Schlosser retired last week after 41 years with the News & Record.
Appropriately, a reception on Wednesday in his honor was touching and funny and even a little bit irreverent.
I had the privilege to say a few things about Jim and here' a little bit of what I shared:
Jim has always has found great joy in his work. I'd come early on some days to discover him already here, scooting around the newsroom, primed for the next story .. curious, fidgety, excited ... as if he were some recent J-school grad logging his first shift on the job.
He has always had a great respect for what he does.
He has always had a respect for the people for the people about whom he writes. They've never been a means to an end. Every one of them was equally important and every one of them had an interesting story to tell.
He has always a had a keen ear and eye for a news story.
He has a nose for a local connection that defies time and space. We could send him to Mars and he'd find somebody there with a connection to Greensboro.
He knows and loves his hometown. As a fellow Greensboro native, I see that every day in what he does and how he does it.
He genuinely loves what he does. Always has. Always will.
And he has helped to remind me, day in and day out, what a wonderful job this is and what a privilege it remains to get the chance to do it.