Friday’s second editorial mourns the loss of a beloved member of The Sun News family.
Jackie Olivetti retired two times
as The Sun News human resources executive. Her newspaper colleagues were not
much surprised when the first retirement didn't take and she was back at work.
People came and went as they do in
most businesses, but Jackie was at The Sun News for a total of 32 years. She
originally was hired as a bookkeeper-secretary and became administrative
assistant to Publisher Michael Pate before being named personnel manager. That
was before the term “human resources” came into use. She was vice president of
human resources when she retired for the second time two and a half years ago.
Those who worked with her thought of her as the backbone of the newspaper. She
was an energetic woman, open, direct and fair-minded. The way she said her name
when she picked up the phone – “Sun News, this is Jackie” – was no-nonsense
Jackie with a hint of welcoming warmth coming through.
She and her husband, Al, have five
children. Outside of work, she was a Guardian ad Litem, a volunteer at the
Community Kitchen and treasurer of the
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