Daily News-Sun editor sets tone for Media Club 20th anniversary luncheon

The renamed Media Club of the West Valley will celebrate its 20th anniversary Feb. 20, when Daily News-Sun Editor Maryanne Leyshon will be a guest speaker at an 11:30 a.m. luncheon at Briarwood Country Club in Sun City West.

Leyshon, who spoke at the club’s first official luncheon April 21, 1990, at the Crestview Restaurant in Sun City West, has been Daily News-Sun editor since October 1989.

She has directed the paper’s newsroom in achieving numerous general excellence first-place awards from Arizona Newspapers Association and Arizona Associated Press Managing Editors.

In February 1990, a group of 66 ex-print media people gathered at the Crestview to discuss forming a club for members of the fourth estate.

Among the men and women present that day were retired printers, publishers, advertising people, photographers and other newspeople from many sections of the country who had settled in the Sun Cities.

Jim Quayle, a former newspaper publisher from Indiana and father of former Vice President Dan Quayle, addressed the group. His topic was the "Need for Integrity."

Instigators of the idea to establish a club, and the ultimate founders, were Chairman Ev Bey, Vice Chairman Jerry Moriarity and Treasurer Chet Lacy. Bey and Lacy are deceased. Moriarity, a three-time past president, remains a member of the board of directors.

Cost of the luncheon is $17.50 per person. Reservations are due by Feb. 12 to Brenda Archambault, 22013 N. Via de la Caballa, Sun City West, AZ 85375.