Category: Scoop
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On June 8, our treasurer, Connie Kindsvater, hosted the entire Board of Governors (a miracle that everyone could attend!) at Pelican Isle Yacht Club for our annual planning retreat. We had time to discuss several issues we’d only glossed over during the year. We also focused on our club’s direction for the upcoming year. SCOOP…
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Oscar Santiago (Golden Gate HS 2011), one of our Press Club of Southwest Florida Scholarship Students, attended the June 20th NPC Mixer and shared some of his recent activities. In May he attended the Florida Model Legislature as a member of the Press Corp. In June he presented the Florida College System Student Government Association…
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Thirty hours. That is how long it takes to get from RSW Airport, Ft. Myers, FL, to Kabul, Afghanistan. Mimi Gregory, past president of the Naples Council of World Affairs, began her May 23 NPC luncheon talk by describing her recent one-week trip to Afghanistan. She was invited to be part of an eight-person delegation…
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At our May Board of Governors meeting, we accepted the resignation of Denise Rochford as our newsletter editor and member of the board. We wished her well as she now feels the freedom she needs to enjoy her travels without having to worry about deadlines. She will, of course, continue as a club member, so…
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When investigative reporters hear of something shocking, they want to dig in and learn more. Often, after that, they want to tell others so their reporting can make a difference. This happened when one of our NPC board members heard the disturbing fact that over one thousand children in our local schools have been identified…
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At the April 25th luncheon meeting at the Hilton-Naples, NPC members heard from a panel of four FGCU Journalism students and their professors about Journalism classes, 2013-style. The panel included three Journalism majors, all juniors: Andrew Friedgen (Opinion Editor-FGCU’s Eagle News and current recipient of the NPC Endowed Journalism FGCU Scholarship), Kahlan Rosenblatt (soon to…
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Mimi Gregory, a past president and current program chair of the Naples Council on World Affairs, was recently privileged to be part of a leadership delegation to Kabul, Afghanistan, at the invitation of our Ambassador, Ryan C. Crocker. Gregory was one of six who represented World Affairs Councils across the US and, as such, were…
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