Birthdays for Wednesday, Feb. 11
Here’s wishing a happy VizEds birthday to a couple of fine visual journalists…
Melissa Nagy Deegan was a graphics coordinator at the Chicago Tribune for many years. Prior to that, she was an artist for the Lexington Herald-Leader. I worked with her when she served an internship with us at the Raleigh, N.C., News & Observer and then again at the Tribune. A graduate of the University of Missouri, Melissa “retired” a few years ago to do the mommy thing. She resides in Naperville, Ill., with her husband and two sons.
Catrina Wojciechowski is a designer for Sporting News Today and for Sporting News magazine. A graduate of Wingate College in Monroe, N.C., Catrina was a huge help to me at TSN, cheerfully taking on the most boring, formatted pages and getting every detail perfect. I never did learn how to pronounce her last name properly.
Melissa and Catrina share a birthday with scientists Thomas Edison and Leo Szilard, musicians Sheryl Crow, Brandy Norwood and Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park, actors Tina Louise, Eva Gabor, Jennifer Aniston and Leslie Nielsen and politician Sarah Palin.
Plus, today is Don’t Cry Over Spilled Milk Day. Seriously.
Best wishes for a happy birthday, y’all!