2010 March 20 Meeting

Please join us for our Chapter Meeting on March 20, 2010.
Our guest speaker will be Joe Kirby, who will make a presentation on The Bell Bomber Plant.
 
Holiday Inn 909 Holcomb Bridge Road Roswell, Georgia
8:00 am Breakfast
8:30 am Meeting

Joe Kirby has been Editorial Page Editor of the Marietta Daily Journal(MDJ) since 1992 and has won the prestigious Freedom of Information Award and Public Service Award from the Associated Press (Georgia) and the Georgia Press Association numerous times, as well as winning awards for Best Columnist, Best Editorial, Best Editorial Pages and Best Feature from those groups.

He is the Southeastern Region 2008 winner of the First Place “Green Eyeshade” Award for Editorial Writing from the Society of Professional Journalists.

Kirby worked in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a city hall/general assignment reporter for the MDJ.

Prior to that, Kirby was a reporter/anchorman for radio stations in northeast Georgia.

He has a B.A. from James Madison University in History and Communication Arts.

He serves on the boards of the Marietta Museum of History, the Cobb Library Foundation, the Kennesaw Mountain Historical Association, and the Marietta Kiwanis Club.

He is the author of “The Bell Bomber Plant” and co-author with Damien A. Guarnieri of “Then & Now: Marietta” and “Then & Now: Marietta Revisited.”

He and his wife and two children live in west Cobb.