A summary of our December 2009 speaker, Bill Sherwonit By Dianne O’Connell At the monthly luncheon Thursday, December 3, held at the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation, nature writer Bill Sherwonit took Alaska Professional Communicators on a tour of some of the journeys–psychological, spiritual and natural–experienced during the writing of his most recent two books. Speaker […]

A summary of our April 2, 2009 speaker, Stan Jones by Barbara Brown Twenty years ago, on March 24, 1989, 11 million gallons of crude oil were dumped in Prince William Sound when the Exxon Valdez tanker went aground. At the time, Stan Jones was a reporter with the Anchorage Daily News, covering the spill. […]

April 2006: Lesley Thomas by Judy Griffin Author Lesley Thomas refused to let publishing trials and distribution travails ground her novel Flight of the Goose: A Story of the Far North. The former Alaskan who now lives in Seattle told attendees at the Alaska Press Women lunch meeting on April 6, 2006, about her experiences […]

Sumner shares stories of women pilots by Carole Mercer Sandi Sumner arrived in Alaska on Amelia Earhart’s birthday: July 24 in 1994. “This was a coincidence,” she notes, “but I think it was an omen of what brought me here.” Sumner spoke to Alaska Press Women at the May luncheon, where she shared stories about […]