A reminder to all on your willingness to recruit students for the 9 a.m. 17 speaker in Davis 418. The speaker will be Brooke Kroeger,author of the new Nellie Bly biography: "Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter,Feminist."Background on Brooke Kroeger: She worked for many years for United PressInternational with postings in Chicago, Brussels, London and Tel Aviv. In TelAviv she served as bureau chief from 1981 to 1983 before moving to London tobecome chief editor for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. She joined theNewsday staff in 1984 as U.N. correspondent -- where her assignments includedthe trial of Ariel Sharon vs. Time, Inc., and the UN conference on the decadeof women in Nairobi, Kenya. She later became a deputy metropolitan editor atNew York Newsday.As a free-lance writer, her articles have appeared in The New York Times,Mirabella and McCalls. Born in Kansas City, she currently lives in NYC.ABOUT NELLIE BLY (someone suggested our students might not know about NellieBly, so here's a brief bio): She was born Elizabeth Jane Cochran in Cochran'sMills, Pa., on May 5, 1864 and died in Brooklyn on Jan. 27, 1922. Her obit inthe New York Evening Journal said: "She was considered to be the best reporterin America." She took her pen name from Stephen Foster's folk song, "NellyBly." Nellie's first six years were spent in Cochran's Mills; her next 10 inApollo. Her father's mansion still stands at 505 Terrace Ave. From Sept. toDec. 1879, she attended Indiana Normal School. In the 1880's, she pioneered the development of investigativereporting. By donkey, horseback, rickshaw, elephant, steamship and train, shecircled the globe in 72 days in 1889-90, faster than any living or fictionalsoul. Racehorses, steamships and locomotives were named after her. She was the first woman to report from the Eastern front in WWI.She interviewed the great national personalities of her day, includingCivil War veteran Col. W...
