New York calls for publisher

Dan Bennett (l), president of The Explorers Club presents Dr. Warner M. Montgomery (r), publisher of The Columbia Star , a scroll in appreciation of a lecture he presented at the club in New York City February 12, 2007. Montgomery's lecture, "The Slave Trade Connection between Guinea and South Carolina," was the result of an Explorers Club Flag Expedition to Farenya, Guinea, in 2006. The expedition team was made up of Montgomery, Dr. Jim Fisher of ERA/USA, Dr. Ken Kelly of USC, and Andrew Hoose, a USC graduate student.