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June Professional Development Meeting
June Professional Development Happy Hour 
New Day, New Time and New Venue!
Wednesday, June 24, 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.

“A Conversation With Bob Rybarczyk: Finding Humor in Work and Play” 

It’s not easy to balance professional work and personal play, especially nowadays with 24-7 access to email, social media and online networking tools. We asked how esteemed PR guru and humor columnist Bob Rybarczyk manages to keep his day job afloat while making St. Louis laugh with his weekly column on STLtoday.com, and decided to invite Bob to speak with our members instead. 

Bob will join IABC/St. Louis for a relaxing and fun happy hour event where he’ll share insight on balancing work and play, and how comedy can play a role in that process. If you’re not familiar with his amusing accounts of his life events and observations as a PR professional, definitely check out Suburban Fringe, which has been inducing laughter for more than eight solid years. When he’s not writing funny stuff, he’s a vice president at Weber Shandwick where he’s primarily focused on consumer public relations.

About Bob Rybarczyk
Bob writes stuff. Specifically, he has written a humor column called "Suburban Fringe" for STLtoday.com every week since July 2001. It continues to be one of the most popular columns on the site, and Bob claims that over the years he has received fan mail from Danny Bonaduce, Audrina Patridge, Tony Blair and Bill McClellan. Bob also lies frequently. An aspiring novelist, Bob wrote a highly questionable book called Acoustic Kitty, which you should buy from Amazon if you enjoy tales that involve prostitutes, the CIA and surgically altered cats. In his spare time, Bob is a vice president at the St. Louis office of Weber Shandwick and has practiced consumer public relations (mostly) for 13 years. He shares an office with two gerbils and a home with his wife, three girls, and two cats.

When and Where: 
Wednesday, June 24
5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
5:00-6:00 Arrive/Network
6:15-7:00 Conversation With Bob
8:00 Event Ends

Dave & Buster’s
13857 Riverport Drive 
St. Louis , MO 63043

Heavy appetizers, including chips with queso and fire-roasted salsa, four cheese pizza bites with basil pesto, bar burgers, mini cheeseburgers served on Hawaiian rolls, goldfingers served with chipotle-honey sauce and an assortment of fine cheese and crackers, in addition to one FREE drink ticket, will be provided.

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