Christmas rum balls were among many things we loved about Betsy
Longtime Portland Press Herald copy editor and page designer Betsy Gattis, who was killed in a car crash this month, was known best for her kind heart, which came through in the annual holiday treat she shared with her co-workers.
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Every year around Christmas, Press Herald employees looked forward to longtime copy editor and page designer Betsy Gattis bringing in her famous rum balls to share with her co-workers.
Photo by Susan Axelrod
In the Before Times, back when we went to the office to work every day, I kept a secret, informal tally of my colleagues’ food choices. (Don’t spread this around.) I knew whose packed lunches and dinners I desired and whose office baked goods I coveted, among them the lunches of Marla Pastrana in paper makeup, news reporter Gillian Graham and former illustrator Pete Gorski, and the spectacular, towering layer cakes of designer Sally Tyrrell.