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  July 2004:  Press Release

ATLANTA, July 15, 2004 – Mercer Press has announced an agreement with Atlanta Olympic insider Dick Yarbrough for a book that will explore the impact of the 1996 Olympic Games in the decade that has followed.   “Was It Worth It?  The Atlanta Games Ten Years Later” is scheduled to be released by the Macon-based publisher in July 2006 to coincide with the 10th Anniversary of the Centennial Olympic Games.

Yarbrough, who served as managing director of communications and government relations for the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG), penned a first-person account of his experiences on the 1996 Olympics (And They Call Them Games; Mercer, 1997).  >>  read on

 

  June 2004:  In Memoriam

Ray Charles
1930 - 2004

Dick was a huge fan of Ray's and made reference to him in 14 of his columns, including this one written in March 2002.  Read other past columns here in our Archives section.

(AP Photo/Winslow Townson)

 

 


 

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