Best wishes to Bill Starr
A friend, Bill Starr, is moving on. Here is part of what he wrote in The State, Columbia, SC, March 23, 2003:

"THE NEXT CHAPTER
"BILL STARR, Staff Writer

"In just a couple of weeks, I'm going to take an early retirement from my newspaper home - well, maybe not all that early - and move to Atlanta, the city of my birth, and the city where my wife lives and works. It will be a pretty dramatic change.
Then again, maybe it won't.

"I'm not going to be leaving the arts behind; that's no longer an option, much less a desirable one. No, I'll be working in a bit of a different area - as executive director of the Georgia Center for the Book - but one that involves many elements of a life spent in the arts. The new assignment will permit me the excitement of discovery. It's going to be very energizing.

"I go with a stash of incredible memories, of course. Thirty years at this newspaper preceded by five years at WIS-TV News and five years at United Press International way back when. Was I ever that young?

"I've been fortunate to have held a series of positions that permitted me to examine and comment on crucial elements in the life and health of the city of Columbia. That's even if not everyone in the city seemed to acknowledge the importance of a thriving arts community at the time."

We will miss Bill and wish him additional success and happiness.


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