Good Bye Gib
I got the news the other day that Gib Fullerton had passed away. Gib was the guy who hired me for my first newspaper job, back when the Valley Advocate was located in downtown Amherst. I remember applying for the job once, then not getting it, and coming back a few months later and signing on. Gib knew I really wanted to work there, and he chuckled about my eagerness. Back in those days I was like a puppy, always eager and panting to get ahead.
It was a glorious time back then in the late 1970s and there was no place else like the old Advocate office. Located in a rambling former apartment building, we were all a part of the excitement of publishing a radical newspaper.
Gib was a man with a lot of patience, and always the guy who knew how things worked. He could fix any computer or network or phone system, and was the General Manager for publishers Christine Austin and Geoff Robinson. The place was so filled with pot smoke it’s a wonder any newspapers ever got published, but they did, and so many decades later, the Advocate still comes out every week.
December 30, 2006 @ 8:30 pm
Dear Max,Have you forgotten ORBS and the Granite State Gazette?
March 21, 2007 @ 4:43 pm
Hi Max, This is Cathy Burnett (Vassar). We worked at the Advocate at the same time (1980-1984). I don’t know if you remember me? I worked upstairs putting togather ads. I’m sad the hear that Gib passed away. He was a great guy. I remember late nights when Gib sprang for pizza & beer. Thanksgivings at Digger’s house. Do you keep in touch with anyone? I talk to Nancy Garziari from time to time. I’m living in Canton, CT. I left the graphics business in 1991 and now manage an insurance agency. Oh how things change. If you talk to any of our old a Avocado’s, feel free to pass along my e-mail address: cburnett@bakkerinsurance.com. Hope all is will with you and your family,Regards, Cathy Burnett