November 15, 1967 –
Bellevue-Stratford Hotel
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mr. Perry has been director of the Public Relations Department of the Du Pont Company since 1965, having joined the company in 1944 as assistant director of the department following a newspaper career in Washington and New York.
Shortly after graduation from Princeton University, Mr. Perry started newspaper work with The New York Sun in 1927. Completing a variety of assignments, including political campaigns and City Hall, he was sent to the Washington Bureau of the newspaper in 1937.
Prominent in the affairs of the Public Relations Society of America and the Manufacturing Chemists Association, Mr. Perry has been President of the Foundation for Public Relations Research and Education since 1966. He is also a member of the Commerce and Industry Council of the National Urban League; the Advisory Committee of the Center for the Advancement of Human Communication at Fairfield University; and the Civilian Public Relations Advisory Committee to the Superintendent, United States Military Academy.
Mr. Perry has written considerably on military and naval activities as well as on politics and on public relations. He collaborated with Roscoe Drummond, then head of the Washington Bureau of the Christian Science Monitor, in writing numerous articles for the Saturday Evening Post and Look magazine. In 1937 he wrote Watchmen of the Sea, a book about the Coast Guard, published by Scribner’s.
