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03/31/2015

200 years of Repository experience: Circulation's Shirley Wade, at 48 years service, is longest-tenured

From The Canton Repository

Weeks after graduating from Glenwood High School in 1966, Shirley Wade found herself working in The Repository.

That makes her the newspaper’s longest tenured employee.

She began working at The Repository June 15, 1966, a few days after her first and only job interview.

Her mother had driven Shirley to The Repository’s offices in the family’s 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air.

She was Shirley Strobelt back then and had applied for an accounting position similar to work done by her aunt Joan during the 1950s. Aunt Joan had recommended Shirley to Roy Stoll, who ran the accounting department, but he sent her application to Harold D. Wise, the circulation manager. Wise gave Shirley the job.

It’s nearly 49 years later — almost one-quarter of The Repository’s history — and Wade is debating whether to hang on for her 50th anniversary.

She likes coming to work, but she also enjoys the time she spends with husband, Jim Wade. They’ve been married 37 years. Jim is a pilot and the couple enjoys taking trips in the small planes he flies.

“I enjoy flying with him,” Shirley Wade said. “It’s peaceful. Fun.”

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