Walt Pickut
Walt Pickut’s writing career began with publishing medical research in1971 while working at the Jersey City Medical Center and the NYU Hospital and School of Medicine. Walt holds board registries in respiratory care and sleep technology as well as bachelor's degrees in biology and communication, and a master's degrees in physiology from Fairleigh-Dickinson University in New Jersey, with additional graduate work in mass communication completed at SUNY Amherst.
He currently teaches Presentational Speaking in the Houghton College PACE program at JCC and holds memberships in the Society of Professional Journalists and the American Society of Business Publication Editors. He lives in Jamestown with his wife Nancy, an MSW social worker, and has three children: Dr. Cait Lamberton in Pittsburgh, Bill Pickut, a marketing executive in Chicago, and Rev. Matt Pickut in Plymouth, IN.
Positive Perseverance at Pablo’s Auto
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They say the longest journey begins with a single step--even if it’s across a tropical sea and nearly 2,000 miles as the...
We all do it…
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As a matter of fact, it’s pretty hard to imagine not doing it. And if you stopped doing it, you wouldn’t...
Hooktown Holidays – Grass Roots Philanthropy Grows in Warren
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“All I wanted to do,” long-time Warren resident, Terry Pearson, told the Gazette last week, “was to start a fire.” That...
Oak trees…
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It’s an old saying that just about everybody knows, but...
One hand tied behind my back?
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It’s an old saying. You’ve probably heard it a thousand times and so have I. Yet it has two almost opposite...
A Better Sharing*
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Remember that day when you were a kid and Mom, or Dad, or old Aunt Sadie, caught you squabbling over some...
Where did that come from?
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In 1900, almost 40 percent of the US population lived on farms—nearly seven million of them across the land—and 60 percent...
You need a hall for that?
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A “Hall of Fame” sounds like a place where you might see something called Fame piled up in heaps and stacked...
Author Talk at Kennedy Library
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It’s not all in the history books…yet. Come to the Kennedy Library on Friday evening at 6:00p.m., 649 2nd St, Kennedy,...
Saint who?
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Happy Valentine’s Day!
Since we at the Jamestown Gazette are committed to honesty in reporting and journalism, we have to confess –...
