Walter D. Wasilewski

Hello Walt, where you are the angels will be celebrating your welcome as we here remember how you were such a joy and inspiration for so many. So many young journalists learn ed from you and those in your level as editors and professors respected your ability to be an excellent human forst and a super journalist valuing integrity and kindness as parts of the trade we were to never forget. We send the entire family our heartfelt broken tears as they are dealing with a loss to hard to fathom....

Vince, Susie and family.... So sorry for your loss! Wish I could have known him. Also on the side.... We all miss your patrol on holloween! Best to you all!!!

May God bless you Mary and your family in this time of sorrow. Caringly by lifting you up in prayer and hugs to help you get through this difficult time.

Professor Wasilewski was my news writing professor at Syracuse University/Newhouse. I am so sorry to hear of his passing. He sparked my interest in news writing and an overall passion for effective communication. I still have the magnet he handmade (!) for each of his students to remind them how to communicate the most important parts of a story first. He was also the first person to impress upon me how important it is to get names right. A simple but significant thing. Professor W was...

See you soon Walt on that front page sky.

K. I found out about your father's passing at the very last second yesterday. I am so sorry for your loss. My condolences goes out to you and your loved ones. Funny in retrospect i may have talked to him at the post standard and never made the connection. Just know he is still with you but had to change his residence because God called him home. Peace and blessings

K. I found out about your father's passing at the absolute last second yesterday. I am so sorry to hear and my prayers and condolences reaches out to you and your loved ones. It's funny in retrospect to think I may have talked to your father at the post standard and never realized the connection. He is with you always but had to change his residence because God called him home. Peace and blessings always.

I was lucky enough to have met Walt (Waz) in Oswego. That first year at Scales Hall, my roommate and I and other members of the gang, ate dinner with him almost every night in the dining hall to talk about our day, and we got to share many good times with him. We continued our friendship in Syracuse and watched him grow into the great man we knew he would become. Great friend, colleague, husband and father. His positive light will be missed by all who knew him.
Sue Stapleton Drapela

My condolences to his family. Walt was fantastic to work with -- caring, knowledgeable and always with students' best interest in mind. I'm grateful to have worked with him.