BY ANDY TAYLOR

A Coffeyville native has been chosen to lead one of the most-heralded media organizations in the United States.

Last Friday, Mark Hamrick, the Associated Press business editor for broadcast, was elected president of the National Press Club, which is based in Washington, D.C. Hamrick will assume his leadership duties on Jan. 29, which, also is the 150th anniversary of Kansas’ statehood. His inauguration as president of the National Press Club will be based on the theme “We’re Not In Kansas Anymore” and include two Montgomery County natives as emcees: Independence native and television broadcaster Bill Kurtis and Coffeyville native and film/TV director Chuck Bowman.

Hamrick graduated from Field Kindley High School in 1978, where, at the time, he was an aspiring young journalist as a staff writer for the Tornado Times newspaper. His father, Dan Hamrick, was the editor of the Coffeyville Journal during the mid-1970s.
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