I would like to thank the Gill Elementary School for inviting me a while back as a guest at the school assembly where I donated my photojournalism photography work so teachers can use it for their curriculum studies with their students. It also was a pleasure and honor to receive such a warm welcome as a former student. I appreciated the opportunity to meet everyone, and at a school assembly, explain to students about my photography that was previously displayed at the Great Falls Discovery Center.
I also discussed how my interest in photojournalism began when I apprenticed under my late grandfather Joseph A. Parzych who was an Army veteran and ran JA Parzych Excavating of Gill from 1956 – 1990. After that, during his semi-retirement years, he continued as a freelance, professional photojournalist from 1947 – 2019. I mentioned to the students that my grandfather had once taught a writing and journalism class with former editor and founder of The Montague Reporter, David Detmold, with teacher Joanne Flag in the classroom with her students at Gill Elementary School.
Joe R. Parzych, freelance photojournalist
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