Amy Swann:
CLASS OF 1982
Pinewood Christian High SchoolClass of 1982
Bellville, GA
Georgia Southern UniversityClass of 1986
Statesboro, GA
Amy's Story
Life
With apologies to all deadheads, what a long strange trip it's been.
I've been working in newspapers since graduation in 1986. I've moved around a bit from the Valdosta Daily Times, to The Augusta Chronicle, followed by a year-long trip to Maine. Living in Bar Harbor and Bangor was an adventure, but they can keep those frozen roads.
I came back to Savannah and spent five years as a reporter and columnist for the Savannah Morning News before walking out on journalism and spending a year getting fired from a variety of job including cocktail waitress, book store clerk and a few others.
I went back to newspapers down on the Georgia coast and spent a year or two before I hoo...Expand for more
ked back up with Augusta. I'm now a full-time editor after years of being a police and government reporter.
I've been lucky as a journalist. I've won three Associated Press awards, a few Georgia Press Association Awards and a Green Eyeshade from the Society of Professional Journalists. Of course none of that really translated into more money.
I've been engaged a couple of times, and thank merciful God, escaped marriage. Not that there's anything wrong with the institution, but if I'd married any of the fellows, I would be in an institution.
I stay pretty busy with my job and I have a large group of insane friends who are always up to something. Sounds a bit like GSU doesn't it.
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