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It was quite a turnout for Winkel’s going away party as friends and family came together to eat, drink and celebrate Winkel (but mostly to eat and drink). A few brothers showed up including the ever elusive Eveslage (who had apparently left a few minutes before I got there at 5 p.m.), Oswald, Lopcko and Scott Morris! There was talk about Burdick showing up later, but I had to leave around 7 p.m. to head back to NYC.

Winkel we wish you good luck and a safe return.

In other news, here is some found footage of brother Reznick when he was reporting about AIDS activist Sean Sasser. This was when he was a reporter at KCRG Tv in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

For those of you who haven’t heard, there was an article about Gerald in 2006 in the Orlando Sentinel:

“Anchor Makes Move”
Scott Maxwell
Orlando Sentinel

After anchoring the weekend news on WKMG-Channel 6 for more than five years, Gerald Reznick has decided to leave the anchor desk — because he can no longer see well while sitting there.Reznick said this week that he has been diagnosed with Stargardt’s disease, a form of macular degeneration, which left him struggling to read scripts under bright lights that aggravate his condition. In recent weeks, he resorted to trying to memorize his lines. But after finding that difficult, even struggling on air a few times, he decided: “I need to retain some dignity.”

Reznick, 37, is not leaving the station. Instead, he has decided to take a weekday reporting job — a move that news director Skip Valet described in a staff memo as a “courageous decision.” What started more than a year ago as a small fuzzy spot in Reznick’s left eye continued to worsen.”For me, it’s been dramatic,” he said. “Not only the ability to read, but not being able to recognize people’s faces.”As Reznick understands it, the chances are very good that he will ultimately go blind, at least legally so.But he is determined to continue working, even if it means learning new reporting techniques, vowing, “I will find a way.”