Friends of the Takoma Park Maryland Library Annual Meeting

Featuring Guest Speaker Richard Harris:

Award-winning journalist Richard Harris reports on science issues for NPR’s newsmagazines Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition. In 2010, his reporting uncovered that the blown-out BP oil well in the Gulf of Mexico was spewing out far more oil than asserted in the official estimates. He covered the United Nations climate negotiations and was a major contributor to NPR’s award-winning “Climate Connections.”
    Harris has been the recipient of many prestigious awards including The University of California at Santa Cruz Alumni Achievement Award – the school’s highest honor. Harris was elected an honorary member of Sigma Xi, the scientific research society and shared a Peabody Award for investigative reporting on NPR about the tobacco industry.
    As part of the team that collaborated on NPR’s series “AIDS in Black America,” Harris was awarded a Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton, a first place award from the National Association of Black Journalists and an Ohio State Award.

Refreshments will follow the guest speaker’s presentation.

Elections for the FTPML Board of Directors will then be held.

Nonmembers are welcome to leave or stay for the election.

Members of the Friends whose dues are current are eligible to serve
on the Board and vote in the election. Those interested in serving on the Board may contact Ellen Robbins at 301-891-7258 or by e-mail at ellenr@takomagov.org for information.

New and renewed memberships will be accepted at the meeting.