With this issue we say goodbye and express our deep gratitude to Les Stock, the longest-tenured staffer in the 38-year history of Catholic Health World. He's been a graphic designer on the paper for 33 years and its sole designer for more than two decades. Norma Klingsick succeeds him as CHA's lead graphic designer.
A creative and detail-oriented craftsman, he's won multiple national graphic design awards. Les once drove to a printing plant in the middle of the night in the throes of a big snowstorm to ensure the Christmas issue of the paper — with its colorful holiday art and warm sentiments — was in perfect register.
By my rough calculation, he'll have designed over 800 issues of the paper when he puts the -30- on a successful career and begins his well-earned retirement.
— JUDITH VANDEWATER