You and Your Military Hero: Building Positive Thinking Skills During Your Hero's Deployment
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You and Your Military Hero helps children learn positive coping skills during a loved one's deployment. A friendly dog named Flipp guides the child on a journey towards positive thinking. Flipp encourages children to appreciate the moment even during challenging times. By practicing the activities in this book, children develop coping competencies that they can apply throughout their lifetimes.
Sara Fritz was an award-winning, Washington based journalist who covered Congress and the White House for three decades. From 1978 to 1983, she worked for US News & World Report.
Background
Sara Jane Fritz was born on December 16, 1944, in Pittsburgh and raised in Gibsonia, an unincorporated part of Richland Township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
She was the daughter of Richard C. Fritz, an advertising executive, and Dorothy Farr Fritz, a homemaker.
Education
Fritz finished Richland High School in 1962. She then attended Denison University in Granville, Ohio, graduating in 1966 with a degree in English.
In 1966, Fritz began her career at the Pittsburgh Press, as a $115 per week copy editor. In 1969, she was hired at United Press International (UPI) in Pittsburgh to be a night editor. In 1971, she was promoted to UPI bureau chief in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, later moving to the Washington DC bureau to be their national labor reporter and first woman weekend news editor.
In 1978, she started at US News & World Report as White House correspondent, covering the campaign, transition and early years of the Reagan administration, through 1983. From 1984 to 1997 Sara worked for the Washington bureau of the Los Angeles Times, writing about such major issues as the Reagan administration Iran-Contra scandal and the Clinton administration Whitewater real estate investigation.
During this time she earned a reputation for congressional finance reporting and was one of the first journalists to use computer-assisted research to explore Federal Election Commission records on campaign spending. The resulting reporting exposed extravagant spending and was published as Gold-Plated Politics: Running for Congress in the 1990s. Her reporting also resulted in the creation of the manual, Handbook of Campaign Spending. In 1997, she was made the managing editor of Congressional Quarterly's CQ Weekly Report. In 1999, she was hired by the St. Petersburg Times to be their Washington DC bureau chief, a post she held until 2004.
Fritz left daily journalism in the mid-2000s. She held executive jobs with nonprofit organizations, including the Faith & Politics Institute in Washington, and was briefly publisher of the monthly newspaper Youth Today.
In 2013 Fritz developed a lung infection after successful hip surgery and was hospitalized for more than a month. She was removed from life support at George Washington University Hospital after her family and doctors agreed she would not recover from the debilitating infection. She died on October 16, 2013.
Fritz was a member of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and board member of the Washington Press Club. In 1984, she was the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association.
Personality
In 2003, Ms. Fritz shared the deeply personal tragedy of her 12-year-old son Daniel’s suicide, on October 27, 2000. In an article in the St. Petersburg Times, she wrote about the family’s struggle with Daniel’s depression, which had been misdiagnosed as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, as well as childhood suicide and childhood depression in more general terms. She and her husband created a website, depressedchild.org, to share information with other parents about the symptoms and treatment of depression in young people.
for Distinguished Reporting of Congress, Everett McKinley Dirksen Congressional Leadership Research Center, 1988;
for Distinguished Reporting of Congress, Everett McKinley Dirksen Congressional Leadership Research Center, 1988;
Goldsmith Award
Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, 1996, for exposing illegal Democratic campaign contributions;
Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, 1996, for exposing illegal Democratic campaign contributions;