ABC News Anchor to speak at Notre Dame Academy Gala
ABC news anchor and chief national correspondent Byron Pitts will be the keynote speaker at the inaugural Notre Dame Academy Benefit Gala at 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Hilton Savannah DeSoto.
Tickets are $75 and include cocktails, dinner, dancing and a silent auction. To buy tickets, call Notre Dame Academy at 912-232-5473.
Pitts joined ABC News in April 2013 after working for 15 years for CBS News, including as a correspondent for 60 Minutes.
He will speak at the invitation of Savannah Bishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, who taught Pitts when he was a freshman at Archbishop Curley High School in Baltimore.
In his memoir, Pitts writes that he was functionally illiterate through most of his elementary school years and a stutterer until he was 20. He credits his mother, his grandmother, the Franciscan friars, his coaches and a college professor with helping him get over the shame of his illiteracy and stuttering to go on to become an award-winning journalist.
For more information, visit notredamesav.org/
Georgia Chamber announces 2014 chairman
The Georgia Chamber of Commerce formally introduced Ernest L. Greer as its 2014 board chair at the chamber’s annual meeting Tuesday in Atlanta.
Greer, the vice president and Atlanta managing shareholder of Greenberg Traurig, LLP, succeeds 2013 chair Steve S. Green of Morris Manning Martin & Green Consulting LLP in Savannah.
“The Chamber has gone through a significant transformation in recent years, becoming a more proactive organization that truly serves the interests of all Georgia companies,” said Greer.
Greer most recently served as chairman of the 2013 Team Georgia Chamber membership campaign that surpassed its goal of $2 million.
The chamber’s 2014 executive committee includes: Ernest L. Greer, Greenberg Traurig, LLP; Chris Clark, Georgia Chamber of Commerce, president & CEO; Steve S. Green, Morris Manning Martin Green Consulting Group, LLP; Paul Bowers, Georgia Power Co.; Kevin A. Greiner, Gas South; and Brant Standridge BB&T.
Lunch and Learn to update roads, transportation
State transportation board member Ann Purcell will be the featured speaker at the Tuesday, Jan. 21 Lunch and Learn presented by the Pooler Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau, Inc. at 11:30 a.m. at Cambria Suites, 50 Yvette Johnson Hagins Drive.
Purcell will update the group on road and transportation plans for the area.
Cost to attend is $14 for Pooler Chamber members and $18 for non-members (includes lunch). After Jan. 20, add $10.
For more information, email office@poolerchamber.com, call 912-748-0110 or visit www.poolerchamber.com.