Karen Ritter, who worked for Meyda Tiffany Lighting, Yorkville, N.Y., as Northeast Regional Sales Manager since the mid-eighties, passed away suddenly on Oct. 18th. Ritter and her husband Bob managed Meyda's fleet of mobile showrooms that were featured at major lighting showrooms and distributors in the northeastern region of the United States for the past 15 years. In addition, they owned a lighting sales agency in 1988 that continues to operate today as Donnybrook Sales of Delaware. She is survived by her husband of 29 years; two sons, Joseph G. Ritter and Robert Noah Ritter; and a daughter, Sarah Ashlea Ritter.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to SDTRHR (Southern Delaware Therapeutic Recreational Horseback Riding), P.O. Box 219, Nassau, DE 19969 or to the SPCA, 22918 DuPont Blvd., Georgetown, DE 19947. SDTRHR provides horseback riding and other services to children with special needs.
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Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 30 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling, Electrical Marketing newsletter and CEE News. During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement. Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling magazine and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 20 years.