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April 16, 2012

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Story by: Michael Dawes, King Content PR

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Noted Author T.R. Reid Plans Great Bend Return to Honor Kilby



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Kilby Dedication Set for April 28

T.R. Reid - author, reporter for the Washington Post, frequent guest for National Public Radios Morning Edition and documentary film correspondent - will be in Great Bend April 28 to celebrate Jack Kilby Day. Reid has written nine books in English and three in Japanese. He has made documentary films for National Geographic Television, PBS, and the A&E Network.



Reid has been married for 39 years to Margaret Peggy McMahon, a practicing attorney in Colorado. The couple have three children.

More than a decade after Jack Kilby and noted journalist and author T.R. Reid joined in creating buzz within the Great Bend community during Jack Kilby Weekend, the two are linked together once again in the same place. Though Kilby died nearly seven years ago, a sculpture will be unveiled on April 28 in downtown Great Bend that completes a monument to recognize the inventor of the microchip and Nobel Prize winner who hails from the area. Becoming a longtime friend of the understated engineer through his writing career, Reid will provide unique insight about Kilby during the 7:30 p.m. sculpture unveiling ceremony.



Im looking forward to seeing the memorial and seeing everybody in Great Bend, said Reid, who moved to Denver in 2003, after serving overseas for many years as a Washington Post Bureau Chief. I think its wonderful that Great Bend understands what Jack Kilby achieved, and I think its marvelous the way a community in the heart of Kansas has grabbed on to the legacy of their favorite son.