House retires after 39 years at Sterling newspaper

When Myron House (‘58) graduated from the School he took a job as an advertising sales representative for the Sterling Journal-Advocate. And he stuck it out. House retired last year after a 39-year career at the paper, the last 26 as its advertising manager.

House got his first taste for the business as a child in the mountain town of Cripple Creek where he delivered The Denver Post. While in high school, he worked for the Cripple Creek-Victor Times Record doing odd jobs, helping on press run days and writing a school column.

“My thanks to Gale Waldrop, Chris Burns and others at the J-School for a great education,” he wrote. He said Burns was the only professor he knew of who visited the smaller papers.

House was made an honorary member of the Mountain Ad Managers Association at their meeting in May. He and his wife, Rita, have been married 44 years.