For Jane Hines, Upon Retiring

For Jane
by Vic Jameson

“I’ve been asked to ask you if you’d be willing to write something about Jane Hines,” the voice on the telephone said. “She’s retiring, you know, and some of us are getting together some tributes to her….”

I said yes, of course. Who could resist a writing venture with Dee Wade? Then reality set in and I asked myself, “Who could even begin to describe the best editor/writer/planner/motivator/leader of volunteers Jane Hines?”

Novelist Ernest Hemingway once said of fellow writer Beryl Markham (author of West with the Night) “She can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves writers.” He could have been speaking of Jane.

Katharine Meyer Graham was publisher of The Washington Post in about the same era that Jane has been publisher of the Voice. Ms. Graham described her work thus: “To love what you do, and feel that it matters---what could be more fun?”

That describes Jane, too.