Bob Burrows will speak to the club at our 7 a.m. meeting on January 4, our first meeting of 2022. He will talk about his background and career and will offer his perspective on local ramifications of the upheaval in print journalism and newspaper reporting and publication.
About the Speaker: Bob was born and raised in the far east(ern US) in the definitely-not-exotic city of Bayonne, N.J. He attended Marquette University in Milwaukee for one year before serving in U.S Navy 1980-84 (if Bill and Dale are at the meeting, that will make for 3 Navy veterans!). Bob’s Navy service was followed by three years working for Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City, after which he moved to River Falls to attend UWRF in 1987. His first journalism job was at the Polk County Ledger in Balsam Lake 1993-96, and he has been the sports editor at the River Falls Journal (Now the Star-Observer) since 1996. He has been married for 21 years to (Hudson Rotarian) wife Kellie, who is currently an Advancement Officer at UWRF.