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"My Fabulous Father" contest winners
Ten stories about great fathers, some dramatic, some funny, some poignant, appeared in the newspaper on May 13. They also were posted at the Gazette’s online site. Readers were asked to choose one favorite, and vote with either an Internet or newsprint ballot.
A total of 419 votes were counted. Sara Huzar's “Honeymoon at Midnight” was the clear top choice with 112 votes. Second place went to Lynne Petroski Fuchs of Glenville, who wrote about her father Carl Petroski’s solution to a family pet crisis. Fuchs’ story, “The Parakeet Paradox,” earned 71 votes.
Joan Babcock of Schenectady, whose narrative about a father who hid clever poems for his daughters as they grew up, took third place. “Reading and Romans” received 40 votes. Posted on June 15, 2008.
Sara Huzar, 23, of Niskayuna, right, and her father Allen Huzar of Glenville shared many a late night when she was a little girl watching shows such as “The Honeymooners.”
The Huzar family gets into the spirit of Halloween during the late 1980s. From left, mother, Sherry, daughter Sara, father, Allen, and daughter, Amy.
Sara Huzar, her father, Allen, and sister, Amy.
Lynne Fuchs of Glenville, holds the bird cage that her parakeet, Frankie, lived in. The first Frankie was secretly — or so Lynne’s father, Carl Petroski, thought — replaced after the bird’s demise.
Carl Petroski, center, with his son Doug, left and daughter, Lynne in the early 1950s.
Lynne Petroski Fuchs' father Carl Petroski, right, in a basketball team photo.
Joan Babcock of Schenectady leafs through the saved letters and notes her father would slip into a shoe or mitten before she left for school.
James Lundie
James Lundie with daughter Joan (16 mos.) at Echo Lake Park
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November 22, 2008
