November 16, 1970 –
The Regency Hyatt House
Atlanta, Georgia
This tenth Foundation Lecture was presented at the Annual Conference of the Public Relations Society of America.
Dr. DeMott completed his undergraduate education at Johns Hopkins and George Washington Universities and received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1953. In addition to his present position, he has held professorships at Harvard, Yale, MIT, Utah and Birmingham (England) Universities and has lectured most recently at the Universities of Alabama, California, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, New York and North Dakota as well as Vassar and Smith Colleges.
Among Dr. DeMott’s publications are the novels “The Body Cage” (1959) and “A Married Man” (1968) and a series of essays on cultural themes, “Hells & Benefits” (1963), “You Don’t Say” (1966), “Supergrow” (1969) and “Surviving the Seventies” (1971).
Dr. DeMott is a member of the PEN Club, the Author’s League, Modern Language Association and Phi Beta Kappa. He received the Harbison Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1969 and has twice been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
