[IRCA] Paul S.

[James Renfrew <jim.renfrew@xxxxxxxxx>]

I only met Paul a few times, and both were at the conventions in Rochester
and Batavia, the only MW conventions I've ever attended in all of these
years since 1967 or so.  But if I do a name search in my e-mail history I
have hundreds, even thousands, of e-mails from me to Paul, from Paul to me,
and from and to all of us on the lists.  As a column editor (IDXD) for many
years we were in regular correspondence about content, format and
deadlines.  We are all grateful that he took on the Publisher role for a
LONG time.  My column dominated my life just before deadlines (initially
all submissions to me were by the US Mail that I had to laboriously retype;
later, e-mail made the job much easier!).  So I can only imagine how
difficult the task of pulling together the entire publication must have
been!  With such a large network, serving as Publisher of DX News is very
similar to herding cats (on the better days) and keeping the cats from
killing each other (on worse the days).  I was always pleased that Paul
kept his head, worked on the basis of key editorial and organizational
principles, and seemed very even-handed in dealing with all of us.  I
remember at one of those conventions that Paul kept speaking of Dave Yocis
as "my new best friend", because Dave had just agreed to take on the
publishing.  Paul had wanted to turn this responsibility over to someone
else for some time, but his patience was finally rewarded with Dave
(Thanks, Dave!).  I also remember at that convention that Paul had loaded
up a truck with a TON of ancient radio-related effluvia from Kermit's
family on the way to the convention, and then he and I took turns
auctioning it off by the box-load!  I am very grateful for Paul's service
to our group.  For an organization whose members rarely see each other
face-to-face, Paul did great work to hold us together.

Jim Renfrew
Clarendon NY
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