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AT ISSUE: Some readers take exception to a goodbye column by former

Daily Pilot features editor Nancy Cheever (“With thanks I take my leave,

but I won’t be far,” Aug. 16).

Regarding Nancy Cheever’s Notebook column, which I unfortunately read

at the breakfast table. Good riddance to a so-called journalist who

obviously has a limited vocabulary when she chooses to open her article

with, “I thought I was going to puke” and closes the article with, “The

next time I feel like puking ...” This kind of lowbrow writing is

apparently supposed to be cute for its shock value.

JACK REEVES

Corona del Mar

Reference the Cheever sayonara column in the Pilot: high school.

Further, the marvelous use of the English language in the first and

last paragraphs was commendable.

You knew what you were doing, didn’t you? You knew that the Pilot’s

gain was the Orange Coast Magazine’s loss.

When I was growing up in Western Massachusetts our Daily Hampshire

Gazette, established in 1786 and still publishing, would occasionally

find it had space to fill. The staff never failed to solve the problem by

printing the number and street location of all the fire alarm boxes in

the city.

You rascal! That’s why you used Cheever’s column, wasn’t it?

LEONARD F. BURKE

Newport Beach

Reading Nancy Cheever’s farewell column made me want to “puke.” If I

were in charge of Orange Coast Magazine, her job would be over before it

started.

BRIAN BURKE

Athens, Ga.