Jonesboro Sun Editor Roy Ockert, the guy on the right chatting with Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe, was installed today as president of the Arkansas Press Association.
Roy and I were both born in the summer of 1945 and got our start in newspapers back when the work was done with typewriters and Linotype machines. He's a newspaperman through and through and a champion of the Second Amendment - the kind of guy you want at the helm of a state press association.
The APA, founded in 1873, includes all of the legal newspapers in the state - 33 dailies and 104 weeklies. It's the oldest professional association in Arkansas.
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