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Kirsten Laskey: Managing Editor

Looking back on it, a lot of managing editors, all of them women, really shaped me as a journalist. Pat Windolf was the first managing editor who left a lasting impresssion on me. She was magnificent. A native to Chicago, Pat moved to Nathrop, Colorado and worked for Salida, Colorado's Mountain Mail for reasons I'll never know. Pat smoked, had a sarcastic sense of humor but was also one of the warmest, most generous people I've known. The second managing editor who made a big impression on me was Kelly Dolejsi, a managing editor of the Los Alamos Monitor. Kelly possesses the patience and grace of saints. Also, when I first met her I thought she was the coolest looking woman I ever met. Kelly is the only person I know who could pull off wearing a skirt over pants or have a tattoo of a pear. Plus, she was good natured enough to make jokes at my glaring mistakes. Kelly would leave friendly notes such as doodles of comma splice monsters whenever I committed the grammar c...

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