Photographer Eric Draper
Don’t miss an exciting evening with former White House photographer Eric Draper. He’ll give us the inside scoop on what it was like covering the daily life inside the Oval Office. This is a fundraiser for your SPJ Rio Grande Chapter co-hosted by Citadel Broadcasting and KKOB.
Date: Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011
Time: 6 pm – 9 pm
Where: Central New Mexico Community College’s Smith Brasher Hall (SW Corner of Coal and University — FREE Parking)
Reception and Silent Auction: 6 pm – 7 pm
Program: 7 pm – 8:45 pm
Tickets: The Rio Grande Chapter has a limited number of free tickets available to SPJ Rio Grande Chapter members. For tickets, email chapter president Julie Ann Grimm at jgrimm@sfnewmexican.com
Citadel Broadcasting also will be giving away some tickets through special radio and online broadcast promotions.
Eric Draper, a former Albuquerque Tribune and Associated Press photographer, who lives in Rio Rancho, was
selected by then President-Elect George W. Bush to be the White House photographer in 2000. For the next eight years, Draper had a front row seat to history during Oval Office meetings, aboard Air Force One, and even at intimate Christmas celebrations.
Sunflower Natural Marketplace is catering the event.
All proceeds from the silent auction will benefit the SPJ-Rio Grande Chapter, which has operated for two years now on a shoestring budget. Among the great items you can bid on:
- Kenneth Kobre’s “Photojournalism”
- Book: LIFE One Nation: America Remembers September 11, 2001, 10 Years Later
- Book: A Time it Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties / Signed by Bill Eppridge
- Poster: A ” Faces of Ground Zero” poster signed by Joe McNally
- Johnson and Miller, “The Sauna Book” (autographed by both authors)
- T-shirt: “No despere. Soy periodista”
- Ken Kobre’s “Lightscoop” —http://blog.lightscoop.com/
- Pete Rose signed baseball
- Popejoy Hall — Two Tickets for Kings of Salsa on Nov. 13
- Santa Fe – 400th anniversary book
The chapter is looking for more items, so if you have something great to donate, please support your chapter. Contact board member and event organizer Peter St. Cyr at peter.stcyr@gmail.com.