Mark Your Calendars!

June 14: End of the Year Picnic

Time: 2:00-5:00 PM
Place: Settler's Cabin Park, Apache Shelter, Oakdale (Robinson Twp.)
Cost: Free (bring a covered dish)

STC Pittsburgh wants to celebrate the end of the year with a family-friendly picnic at Settler's Cabin Park. We will be at the Apache Shelter, #11 on the park map.

Family-friendly games and activities are being planned, so let us know if you have any suggestions, or are willing to help. STC Pittsburgh will provide the hamburgers and hot dogs. Please bring a covered dish and tell us what you will bring with your RSVP.

The shelter is convenient to tennis courts, a wave pool, and hiking trails. Further details to come.

RSVP with your name, phone number, email address, and covered dish details to José Amayo at vicepresident@stcpgh.org or P.412.606.3924.

Map directions to this event, here.

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Your chapter officers are working on scheduling the next year of chapter events. More information coming soon.

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From STC Pittsburgh

Blue Pencil
In the current issue:

• Coping with a Co-Dependent Workplace
• Pittsburgh STC member, Janis Ramey, Achieves Rank of STC Fellow
• Some of Word's Lesser-Known Features
• New Option for Members Attending Upcoming Technical Communication Summit

Click here to view past issues of the Chapter Newsletter, Blue Pencil.

In Loving Memory: Beverly Spagnolo-Klauscher

After a seven-year battle with breast cancer, Beverly Spagnolo-Klauscher, who served our chapter as Vice President, President, Immediate Past President, and Treasurer, left this world peacefully at home on February 25, 2009, with her husband, Robert Klauscher, at her side.

A graduate of Shaler High School and Lock Haven College with an MA in English literature from Duquesne University, Beverly was erudite and well-read yet without pretension. She loved movies and dance. Well-traveled, she held a special favor for the red rocks of Sedona.

Beverly worked for many years as a software documentation writer for National Guest Systems in Rockville, Md., and for Express Technologies in Wexford, where all who knew her knew her as a friend. She was vice president and co-owner of Klauscher Architects, where her charm and grace won over all who dealt with her.

Her battle with cancer can be summarized in words of Don Quixote, "Well might the enchanters rob me of my good fortune, but never of my spirit or my will." Cancer might have robbed Beverly of her health, but never, never once, of her spirit or her will.

...taken from the obituary at the funeral service, February 28, 2009

Beverly will be sorely missed by STC Pittsburgh, not only because she knew the ins and outs of the organization, but also because she was just plain fun to be around. Even when she wasn't feeling well, Beverly made many a Chapter and Board meeting. Even when she was facing an uphill battle, she kept a positive attitude and never lost her sense of humor, once quipping, "If the cancer comes back, I'm naming it after the doctor who said it wouldn't."

For this reason, Beverly was the first recipient of STC Pittsburgh's MUD - Managing Under Duress - Award in 2008.

Beverly, we miss you!