Joanne Wojcik

(8/21/1957)

Joanne Wojcik was born on August 21, 1957, in Chicago and was baptized Catholic later that year at St. Paul's Church on the southwest side. She recieved her First Communion in 1964 and was confirmed in 1969 at St. Albert the Great Church in Burbank, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. Joanne graduated from Reavis High School in Burbank in 1975. During her senior year, she won a scholastic achievement award for editorial writing as the editor of "The Blueprint," the student newspaper. She attended the College of St. Francis in Joliet, Illinois, between 1975 and 1977 and then transfered to the University of Illinois in Urbana, where she earned a bachelor of arts degree in rhetoric in 1979. Joanne's first job after college was as a proofreader for Research Press, a textbook publisher in Champaign, Illinois. She married her college sweetheart, James F. O'Hare, on October 6, 1979, and the couple moved to Chicago when Joanne was offered a position at Crain Communications Inc., a business trade publisher. In 1981, Joanne and Jim moved to Colorado where Joanne took a job as a general assignment reporter at "The Delta County Independent," a twice-weekly community newspaper. In 1983, Joanne became a copy editor for "The Daily Sentinel" in Grand Junction, Colorado, and was promoted to assistant news editor in 1984. The couple returned to Chicago in 1985 and were divorced in 1986. Joanne returned to Crain Communications, this time working as a copy editor. She transferred to Crain's Los Angeles office in 1990 and currently holds the title of senior editor at "Business Insurance," a weekly trade magazine. Joanne, who is currently single, resides in Agoura, California, where she enjoys gardening, reading, traveling and home decorating.

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