Nellie BlyA reminder to all of your willingness to recruit students for the 9:00 am speaker on Saturday, September 17 in Davis 418. The speaker will be Brooke Kroeger, author of the new biography of Nellie Bly: " Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist." Background on Brooke Kroeger: She worked for United PressInternational for many years with assignments in Chicago, Brussels, London and Tel Aviv. In TelAviv he served as bureau chief from 1981 to 1983 before moving to London to become editor-in-chief for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. She joined the Newsday staff in 1984 as a United Nations correspondent, where her assignments included the Ariel Sharon v. Time, Inc. trial and the United Nations Decade of Women conference in Nairobi, Kenya. She later became deputy metropolitan editor of New York Newsday. As a freelance writer, her articles have appeared in the New York Times, Mirabella, and McCalls. Born in Kansas City, she currently lives in New York. ABOUT NELLIE BLY (someone suggested that our students might not know about NellieBly, so here's a short biography): She was born Elizabeth Jane Cochran in Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania, on May 5, 1864, and died in Brooklyn on January 27, 1922. Her obituary in the New York Evening Journal said, "She was considered the best reporter in America." He took his pseudonym from Stephen Foster's popular song, "NellyBly". Nellie's first six years were spent in Cochran's Mills; his next 10 at Apollo. His father's mansion still stands at 505 Terrace Ave. September through December. In 1879 he attended the Indiana Normal School. In the 1880s she was a pioneer in the development of investigative journalism. Aboard a donkey, a horse, a rickshaw, an elephant, a steamship and a train, he went around the world in 72 days in 1889-90, faster than any living or imaginary soul. Racehorses, steamships and locomotives were named after him. She was the first woman to report from the Eastern Front during the First World War. He interviewed the great national figures of his time, including Civil War veteran Colonel William Sirwell of Kittanning, Emma Goldman, Susan B. Anthony, Eugene Debs, boxers John L. Sullivan, and Jack Dempsey. She was the author of four books. She has been honored by the New York Press Club, the PennsylvaniaNewspaper Hall of Fame, the Ford City Area Hall of Fame, and with a monument in