{"id":615,"date":"2008-12-02T10:04:51","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T15:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=615"},"modified":"2008-12-02T10:15:41","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T15:15:41","slug":"beth-hoffman-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/02\/beth-hoffman-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Beth Hoffman, R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fee.org\/in_brief\/default.asp?id=2503\">Beth Hoffman<\/a><\/strong>, the managing editor of<strong><em> The Freeman<\/em><\/strong>, passed away yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>She was a fine editor and a great lady.\u00a0 I had the pleasure of working with her on many stories since the mid-1980s.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Beth was\u00a0one of the unsung heroes of the freedom movement.\u00a0 She\u00a0worked at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fee.org\"><strong>Foundation for Economic Education<\/strong> <\/a>from the mid-late 1970s.\u00a0\u00a0 She was a rock of stability at FEE as it went through change after change over the past quarter century.\u00a0\u00a0 She made sure\u00a0FEE events ran like clockwork, and she accomplished this with a quiet grace and suasion that made her a favorite of FEE staff, contributors to the Freeman, and others who came in contact with her at FEE.<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite memories comes from a talk FEE president Richard Ebeling invited me to give at\u00a0their summer\u00a0seminar in August 2003.\u00a0 As I was taking the Hudson Valley line train to Irvington, the train suddenly came to a dead stop.\u00a0 Power was knocked out throughout the northeast.<\/p>\n<p>After exiting the train and walking down the railroad tracks for awhile, I was able to flag down a ride at some suburban train station north of Yonkers.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Beth helped assure that the speech went on, despite the total lack of power and the resulting chaos far and wide.\u00a0 (The\u00a0police helicopter that seemed to hover near the\u00a0back yard speaking venue can&#8217;t be blamed on her). \u00a0At the same time, she made sure that the young students at FEE were kept safe and out of trouble.<\/p>\n<p>On the day after the speech, the power began to return, and I had the pleasure of going out for a few beers\u00a0in Irvington with Beth and\u00a0Sheldon Richman, FEE&#8217;s editor-in-chief.\u00a0\u00a0 Her hearty sense of humor and total lack of pretension were rare virtues, especially combined with her competence and dedication.<\/p>\n<p>Beth is survived by a husband and a son. 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