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Well folks, we have a very special treat for you all this month. We have special guest speaker Mark Potter coming to talk about his book "Sunrise, A Photographic Journey of Comfort, Healing, and Inspiration”.
Mark is an award winning journalist and former news correspondent for ABC, and later CNN, based out of Miami. In 2016 he retired, and a month later, tragically found out his wife had high-stage ovarian cancer. This book “Sunrise” was an inspiring collection of his sunrise photos that he dedicated to the memory of his late wife, Judith.
The meeting will be in person at the Moose Lodge. Social time starts at 6:30pm, and the meeting begins at 7pm. Hope to see you all there!
Below is an anchor bio from the CNN website:
“Mark Potter is a CNN correspondent based in the network’s Miami bureau. Potter joined CNN in 1998, after serving 15 years with ABC News as a correspondent.
Potter has covered numerous stories for the network since joining CNN, including the Elian Gonzalez story, the Venezuelan mudslides, Hurricane Floyd and the John Glenn space launch. In addition, he reports on politics and environmental issues for the CNN networks.
Potter is also a contributing correspondent for the Emmy Award-winning newsmagazine program CNN&TIME. He has filed reports on Leonard Peltier, a Native American imprisoned for the murders of two FBI agents; Bill Bonanno, a former Mafia member turned screenwriter; and the story of two former drug traffickers who worked undercover for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Additionally, Potter reported on the controversy over proposed oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.
At ABC, Potter reported for various ABC News programs, including World News Tonight, Good Morning America and Nightline. In the United States, he covered the 1996 bombing of Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta; the Valujet crash in the Everglades; the Oklahoma City bombing; several El Niño-related weather stories; and the murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace, as well as the subsequent manhunt and suicide of suspect Andrew Cunanan in Miami. Potter also traveled and reported extensively throughout Latin America, covering top stories such as the Peru hostage crisis, Cuban and Haitian immigration crises; the papal visit to Cuba; the NAFTA debate in Mexico; the Colombian drug wars; the arrest and trial of Panamanian Gen. Manuel Noriega; and the Grenada invasion.
Earlier, Potter was an investigative reporter for two years for WPLG-TV, the ABC affiliate in Miami. During this time, he won a number of prestigious awards, including a 1982 Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Award, an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award and a Robert F. Kennedy Award for his five-part series investigation into the smuggling and brutal treatment of Haitian refugees by boat captains. Additionally, he has earned several local Emmy awards for reports on arms trafficking and the effects of drug smuggling in a small Florida city. Potter began his career in 1975 as a reporter-photographer for WTVW-TV, the ABC affiliate in Evansville, Ind.
Potter is a 1975 graduate of the University of Missouri where he received a bachelor’s degree in journalism.”