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Brian L. Wallin Biography

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Brian L. Wallin is a 1965 graduate of Stonehill College and earned his master’s degree in 1968 from American International College. He spent the first 20 years of his career as a radio and television news, reporter, anchor and producer in Hartford CT, Springfield MA, Providence RI and Boston MA, also contributing to the NBC, CBS and ABC networks. He broadcast the America’s Cup yacht races between 1967 and 1983 for national and international news organizations. He has been an adjunct professor in speech, journalism and communications at Providence College and Salve Regina University.

In 1984, he turned to health care management, serving in senior leadership positions with the Maryland Hospital Association, and with health care systems in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. He retired in 2009 as Vice President of Kent Hospital in Warwick, RI where he remains active on several adminstrative committees.

He holds national accreditation in the Public Relations Society of America.He is a past president of the New England Society for Healthcare Communications and of the North Kingstown (RI) Rotary Club (he is also a Paul Harris Fellow in Rotary). He is a trustee of the Varnum Continentlal historic militia and the Varnum Armory & Varnum House Museums in East Greenwich (RI). Brian is an avid guitarist, model railroader and marine model builder and also continues to do commercial voice-overs and documentary narrations.

He is a frequent lecturer to audiences across the state on aspects of Rhode Island history. He also writes for specialty publications and is a contributing author to the on line journal of Rhode Island history, smallstatebighistory.com. Brian is the co-author of “World War Two Rhode Island”, a book about the war’s impact on the Ocean State, to be published in May of this year. 
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