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Remembering Marilynn Marter … UPDATE: A funeral service for Marilynn will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 11 at Decker Funeral Home, 216 York Rd., Warminster, PA. A viewing will be at 9 a.m. Interment will follow in Whitemarsh Memorial Park in Prospectville. … Scroll through front pages over the decades at the Inquirer’s 180th anniversary Website.

Updates
Sara Freligh is fellowing for the National Endowment for the Arts, one of only 42 U.S. poets to do so … Gail Shister is off to teach and write, having ended her long, high-profile run at the paper … Mike Blackman teaches in Wacky Waco … Paul Moore returns to the mother ship … Mitch Lipka contributes to WalletPop.com and works at AOL … Bob Drogan roves for the LAT … Bob Frump finds that Texans believe size does matter … Henry Holcomb volunteers dockside … Former editorial writer Doug Pike has congressional aspirations … Caren Crockett checks in from Amsterdam … Leslie West Hoffecker edits at CQ Today after her not-so-Zell experience at the LAT … Charlie Layton is on patrol in beautiful Ocean Grove … Dave Lieber has a column called The Watchdog, imagine that? … Larry Reibsten is saving for college (again) … Dale Mezzacappa has gone back to school, in a manner of speaking … Naughton is recalling great pranks from the past. Read the details, plus much more on the Alumni Directory page. … Meanwhile, can we publish your e-mail in our directory? Please tell us by filling out an update form.

Carol’s memory marchin’ on home

[Video, photo by Don Groff]

Colleages, friends and family gathered Saturday, April 25 in College Park, Maryland to bid a heartfelt farewell to Carol Horner. A seven page program produced for the event celebrated Carol’s devotion to family and friends and her passion for her writing craft and newspapers. The memorial was arranged by former Inquirer colleagues and the staff at the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism at the University of Maryland, where Carol was director. From afar, Jim Naughton sent remembrances of Carol in a short video, which is available on request by e-mailing the alumni webmaster.

Taking note
Not nice to see Yoo, says DN’s Will Bunch, while Colbert yucks it up… Still a great place to work – even part-time. Just ask Rick Santorum, who’s getting $1,750 – or $45,000 a year – for the op-ed column he files every other week, according to a Chapter 11 court filing. … For some at the paper, there’s even foreign travel.

In memoriam
Marilynn Marter … Gayle Sims … Larry Fish … Weta Ray Clark … Carol Horner

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