From Jennifer Juarez Robles, Former NLGJA National Vice President for Print and New Media

Jennifer Juarez Robles
First NLGJA National Vice President for Print and New Media
Gazette, News Desk, Colorado Springs

Roy Aarons was my hero, always was and always will be. We last talked in person at the NLGJA 10-year anniversary convention, when we got away from the hotel and remembered the group's growing pains and many of our own. Oddly, after those initial intense years, I connected most with Roy in a spiritual way, sans journalism. Or maybe they were the same and we didn't know it until later? As Dan Woog already said, his impact on my career is enormous. But he taught me much more: how to live with a chronic illness (scleroderma for me); how to love without conditions, how to forgive and how to let go. He and Josh always will have a special place in my heart.