Reader's profile

Editor's note: When we have room, NCR will from time to time offer profiles of some of our most frequent contributors to the Letters page.

Janelle Lazzo

Roeland Park, Kan.

Age: 71

How long have you been reading NCR?

11 years.

How many of your letters have been published in NCR?

Maybe a half-dozen or more, beginning in the last four or five years.

Do you have a favorite letter we've published?

I had a letter reminding the bishops that they were part of the church, but not the entire church, that I liked a lot.

Job?

I am a retired high school teacher, and for the past 20 years, including most of the years I was teaching high school, I have been teaching English part-time at Penn Valley Community College, Kansas City, No.

Tell us about your family life?

I have been happily married for 46 years, have six grown children, and eight grandchildren.

What stirs you to write letters?

I am an avid reader and an activist for civic and church causes. I am active in local organizations that support institutions whose work I value. I see many injustices in both community and church affairs, which I would like to help to eradicate. I write letters to try to persuade people to look at sides of an issue they might not have considered before.

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