David B. Bowes is a freelance journalist, speechwriter and communications consultant. A Navy veteran and lifelong boater, he is a contributing writer to Chesapeake Bay
magazine. Pr...view moreDavid B. Bowes is a freelance journalist, speechwriter and communications consultant. A Navy veteran and lifelong boater, he is a contributing writer to Chesapeake Bay
magazine. Prior to retirement, and in addition to other communications jobs, he was a general assignment reporter for The Blade of Toledo, Ohio; a reporter, editorial writer, Washington correspondent and roving national correspondent of the St. Louis Post- Dispatch, and urban affairs columnist, editorial page editor and associate editor of the Cincinnati Post. He is a recipient of the Con Lee Kelliher Award of the Society of Professional Journalists “…for excellence in general news reporting.” The American Political Science Association cited him “…for distinguished reporting of public affairs.” The Scripps-Howard Foundation presented him with the Walker Stone Distinguished Citation “… for outstanding editorials that produced results.” David Bowes lives on a farm near the Antietam National Battlefield in western Maryland with his wife, the psychologist Rosemary Tofalo Bowes.view less