The NBACA Phila. Convention Committee |
This month as we focus attention on breast cancer awareness, I think of one of my very first assistants and dear friend, who rose through the WTXF-TV/Fox 29 ranks to make her own stellar mark in the Philadelphia broadcast community at KYW-TV/CBS 3. She was always there, professionally and personally. She had my back and, true story, as if out of a scene of La Femme Nikita, she almost took a bullet for me (an insider’s reference to the NBACA -National Broadcast Association for Community Affairs- Philadelphia Convention). With impeccable style, grace and compassion, she worked publicly and tirelessly on causes to make life better for others; however, many of us did not know until it was too late that she was fighting a battle against breast cancer all by herself.
The late Geaneen Rutledge-Buford and husband, John, November 18, 2000. |
Gay O’Brien
Principal
LGK Marketing Communications Collective, Inc.