Lynn Smith was named host of HLN’s Weekend Express in May 2014 and is based in the CNN Worldwide headquarters in Atlanta. She joined HLN in fall 2013 as an anchor/correspondent and had been filling in as host of the high-rated Weekend Express since December of that year.
Before coming to HLN, Lynn Smith, the former Lynn Berry, served as the anchor of NBC-TV’s Early Today and MSNBC’s First Look since 2010. During that time, she was also a fill-in newsreader on Weekend Today and covered overnight breaking news at MSNBC.
The year prior, Smith had been a general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor at WNBC’s local station “News 4 New York.” Earlier, at NBC-owned station WCAU, Philadelphia, she served as general assignment reporter since June 2007. In January 2008, her role was expanded and she was promoted to co-anchor of "NBC 10 Weekend Today" on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
Prior her work at WCAU, Smith worked behind the camera at NBC-TV’s Today as an associate producer and was later promoted to producer. In 2007, her role expanded to online correspondent for todayshow.com, with several of her pieces featured on Today. She was also a freelance general assignment reporter for NBC-owned station WVIT in Hartford, Connecticut.
A magna cum laude graduate from Miami University in Ohio, who majored in mass communications, Smith got her start in broadcasting as a reporter for the university newspaper, and anchor/reporter at its television station.
Following graduation, Smith was awarded a prestigious internship with the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles. In 2001, she joined NBC’s Page Program in Los Angeles before moving East to pursue her passion for news.
If you have a desire to serve on the Kiwanis Club of Atlanta Board of Directors, now is the time to submit your name for consideration! All qualified members who express an interest to serve will be on a list for potential nomination. Members will complete their nomination forms at the meetings on March 7 and 14, and those persons receiving at least 10 nominations will have their name submitted on the ballot for election at our club's annual election on April 4, 2017.
To qualify as a board of director, you must be a member in good standing (current on dues and have made a contribution or pledge to the Kiwanis Foundation of Atlanta) and have served in a prior leadership position with the club as a chair or vice chair of a committee.
If you would like to submit your name, please send your request to Ernie Prickett, chair of nominations and leadership development committee, kiwanisclubatlanta@gmail.com by March 3, 2017.
If you don't have a Kiwanis Club of Atlanta club polo shirt, be sure to order yours today!
Be sure to get your KCA Club Polo Shirt and wear your shirt at all of our club events such as reading to the Dean Rusk head start kids, greeting the troops at the airport with the USO, volunteering with Philanthropy in the Classroom, and more! Cost is only $21.40 for shirt sizes Small - Extra Large. An Additional charge for shirts XXL and XXXL. The shirts fit pretty true to size and have a good quality brushed cotton feel. Please email KiwanisClubAtlanta@gmail.com with your order by Monday, March 20th and shirts should arrive by end of April.
Do you want to let the members of our club know more about you and your business? Do you want to network and cultivate more business contacts? If you answered yes, then you need to sign up to do a "Member Spotlight" at one of our club meetings!
Spotlights are done every 2nd and 4th Tuesday luncheon meeting (and the occasional 5th) each month. You have two minutes to showcase your business and tell the other members how you can benefit them! To get on the schedule, just email Karen at KiwanisClubAtlanta@gmail.com.
Just in case you missed the last couple Member Spotlights at the Kiwanis Club of Atlanta luncheon meeting, we have listed the last few below. The next time you need someone with their expertise, please, "Do Business with a Kiwanian!"
"Do Business" with these Kiwanians!
Kevin Isakson is a Principal with Isakson Living the developer and manager of Park Springs and Peachtree Hills Place. Kevin’s responsibilities include site selection, acquisition and zoning as well as overseeing the Marketing and Sales of their communities.
Phillip Rogers is a founding employee and senior vice president of Capital Markets with Atlantic Capital Bank, a publicly traded, multi-state community bank offering superior financing solutions and treasury services to mid-market and emerging growth companies. He can be reached atPhillip.Rogers@atlcapbank.com
Clay Prickett is an engineering design & manufacturing consultant for the consumer goods industry, helping corporations and individuals alike bring their ideas for new products to market. He can be reached at 404-326-0229 or clayprickett@gmail.com.
Do you shop at Amazon? Then SMILE and go to Amazon Smile for your next purchase and help our club's Foundation!
AMAZON SMILE - Shop at the Amazon Smile website and .5% of your purchases can be donated to the Kiwanis Foundation of Atlanta! Just go to CLICK HERE TO START SHOPPING and let your fingers do the donating!
Don't get the BOOT! Be sure your car has a Kiwanis Club of Atlanta car decal properly displayed on your vehicle.
The security company contracted by Lanier Parking will be booting all cars that are parked in the reserved parking places and that do not have a valid decal on their car identifying them as attending the Kiwanis Club of Atlanta luncheon. So if you arrive prior to 11:45 am on Tuesday, please make sure you have a parking decal on your car. You can get a decal from Karen at the luncheon meeting, and then place it on the right back window (passenger side) from inside your car. They are static cling, so easy to put on and take off!
and go to Amazon Smile for your next purchase and help our club's Foundation!