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About the Author:

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Drue Smith's  daughter, Dru Smith Fuller, compiled and organized Drue Smith's amazing  Technicolor dream life.  Dru Fuller researched and wrote the award-winning  "Texas Gets a Hand" for the Texas Senate Research Center.  This study  gathered information on volunteerism in twenty state agencies and identified  barriers to such volunteer programs. "Texas Gets a Hand" pointed the  way for the Environmental Scan of Volunteerism in Texas. The Texas Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service, Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs recently released this report.  Earlier in her  career, she was managing editor of "Criminal Law Update," the Texas Attorney  General's quarterly
magazine. Earlier still, she was a professional  staff member for two subcommittees of the U.S. Senate
Governmental  Affairs Committees; liaison for Nashville's metro government to the Tennessee  General Assembly and a reporter for  WLAC NewsRadio.

About the Book:

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Drue Smith's amazing Technicolor dream life
2005 Edition: Perfect bound, 150 pages, 8.5 x 11 inches
ISBN: 0-9753323-0-9          $19.95

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You will be completely captivated by  Drue Smith's amazing Technicolor dream life as you flip through page of page  of photos of Drue Smith with many of Tennessee's most prominent public and  private citizens. However, you will quickly stop flipping through, and settle  down to read about one of the most fascinating women to put her stamp on  modern journalism.  The late Drue Smith was a Capitol Hill correspondent  for a number of news outlets, both radio and print. She was also named the  133rd member of the General Assembly in a joint resolution. She did not have  a vote or per diem, but she had the ear of many prominent lawmakers for more  than 30 years.  A native Chattanoogan, she wrote for both papers there  before beginning her broadcast career. Later, she came to Nashville to  serve as information liaison for Governor Frank Clement. She stayed on to cover  the Tennessee General Assembly, becoming the first woman to chair the  Capitol Hill Press Corps. In 2001, the Legislature named the Capitol Press Room for her.  She was named Woman of the Year by a number of organizations, but she will probably be long remembered for de-sexing  the bar at the Gerst Haus, lunch at the City Club and the men's table at  Satsuma.  Drue added to the Cystic Fibrosis coffers by bidding $14,000  (provided by some friends) for HCA executive Clayton McWhorter at their  bachelor bid. This caper net nationwide in news coverage.  Drue also lent  her talents to other meritorious fund raising events such as the Swine Ball for  the Cancer Association, the Jail & Bail program for the Heart Fund  and telethons for Easter Seals and Cerebral Palsy.  She professed a deep  and abiding love for politics and covered more than her share of campaigns and  conventions.

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