The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-15


 DEPARTURE: Writings of mine in the Tall lowel' which few of you have enjoyed, recently caught the eve of an editor. And now am gong to oo pleceS " +Ia World Telegram in New York That means saying Coodbve to Waterbury and to those in Waterbury whom have crown to love and to admire and to respect anu 1t means saving goodbye to this newspaper on WHICH have worked for the past eighteen monthS'
 It is not an easy thing this business Of saying gooo bye Too many memories crowd the heart' too nl"liy xecollections of kndlness form lump Ill tfe 'io"' and 1t is difficult to be articulate.
 year and half is not long span in the life of ,nan and vet in it's way it can be lifetime of its ow For vou can see yourself to strange city as all alien = born it were to new eNstence' anu yo" ~ see yourself grow into part of that city, until some ol u is indelbly imprinted your being Ana you can @ T o1rsef at the end of eighteen months gong away Io yb+ it richer than VOL came in because of the friend shins vo have formed and because of the great store of experences you have amaSsed, which WouIu never have been yours but for your coming n the ming And maybe more precious than anytnlng i else @ the memories you can carry away Wtn you oi x m n the most lndeStrucUDle II1llSS oA eoA "iA' A. " them to be that way.
 They do not have to be great towering thoughts te memories that cling closest and are dearest O1en they of the small inconsequenal tnlngs % w nto nulsating being when the moment ot departure arVeS And so I'll never old elm trees that won't tnnk K Gl the Green in Waterbury, and I'll never near an r1Si1 ISL song sung again but I'll think of John C!uney ana 1 never enter print shop or get Whft or printers A' that the feet of in fancy won't be pounding up the stairs to the composing room of the Democrat ana to that great bunch of lads there whom I'm prouo 'o " my friends.
 Nor will anyone ever do kindness again that won't think of the intending kindinesS of the Maoneys and .ther generosity and the kndliness of Jim Moore and his family, and that of James M Lynch ana ms daughter and the Deegans in NaugatucE ana e+od ee arevs and Martin Keefe and his sister, and M E. Stoo- dard and Dr. the dentist and those others Wno invited me to their homes and helped to dispel the mist of loneliness which so ofter enshrouded And snail never forget the welcoming that awaited me always from C. H. Cables Mrs. Jarvs Sam Kurrin Melvin Delk and Henry at the Hotel Klngsoury Wnch TOT the past eighteen months has been my Waterbury nome
 As long as live shall have only to close my eyes, and will be able to reve Waterbury days and nights, the routine of my days and nights which was never routine and as fancy directs I'll walk agan old e[as often in the office the street. and in houses ana in restaurants and bars For few of these will ever forget George in the Minerva where take oreaK1asI who finally remembered I always wanted my coffee before any food, "JingeS" Donahue, famous man Ill his own right Joe DeAngelo proprietor of the Grand restaurant who dishes up as fine hamburger steak I've tasted anywhere, Bill Reilly and Jimmy Murphy Jim Rickenmeyer, Helen and Martha in the Home Res taurant and many more too numerous to mention Wln whom passed the time of day and by whom was always greeted with friendly word
 Nor will forget the kindness I experienced when two spells of sickness sent into St. Marys and the Waterbury Hospitals and the kindness of those who came to visit there we'll that of those who nursed me back to health
 I shall remember the long walks took through, around and about Waterbury, the delight experienced discovering places of interest and roads and viStas, and how my heart warmed at much that saw and learned
 I shall miss these walks, and my early morning trek to the office and greetings of Fred Carey and Gus Heyer and Bill Moran shall miss the boys dropping in on their way to the composing room - Frankie Holleran, and Jack Kopizch and Ambrose Scully and Allie Affeldt and Teddy Olschefski And then my own visits upstairs to talk front page layout with Joe Evans and Al Riker, and Johnny Wrenn, Bill Dr1scou, Eddie Bowling "Red" Nichols Eddie LaMontagne, Larry Lauritzen Eddie Byrnes Win Coates Bill Brooks, Thomas Gihooley Carl HaSSel, Francis Howard Albert Paris, Lester Warner, and to bandy words with the gang, And shall miss the shout down the communication tube for copy and the repartee that passed between us.
 shall remember Lou Mortensen, and Mollie Cullen, and Ann Eagan and Betty Blanchard and Charlie Mccarthy and Lyall Hill, and Ruth Herr, and Marion Hurburt, and Helen Morris, and Sam Elman, and Hal Thomas and Jim Meehan. shall remember my col leagues of the city of the Democrat who like the lads in the composing room, are great crew. I shall remember my heSitant arrival in Waterbury and my regretful departure shall remember the evening Fred Carey showed the way to the top of Pine Hill where could look down all Waterbury stretched before like great throbbing dream in the sunset And this will be the loveest memory of them all, for it encompasses the rest Goodbye.
 EDMUND LEAAIY.