July 10, 1974 –
The University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland
Mr. Hill is chairman of the executive committee of America’s largest international public relations firm, Hill and Knowlton, Inc. Born in 1890, in Shelbyville, Indiana, he attended Indiana University and later entered the field of journalism.
In 1927, Mr. Hill established in Cleveland one of the nation’s earliest companies offering public relations services to American business.
Because of Mr. Hill’s confidence in the future of international public relations, he established in 1962 a Foreign Fellowship program under which each year an outstanding young student of public relations is brought to the United States for a course in pertinent subjects at a leading American University, followed by some months of intensive training at Hill and Knowlton headquarters in New York.
Mr. Hill has received honorary degrees of Doctor of Laws from Indiana University and Doctor of Humane Letters from Boston University. He has also received a Distinguished Alumni Service Award from Indiana University. He has been awarded the “Chevalier de I’Ordre de Leopold” decoration by the Belgian Government, and has received the award of the Public Relations Society of America for distinguished service to the advancement of the public relations profession. In 1966, he was voted Public Relations Professional of the Year by the readers of Public Relations News. Mr. Hill was also a recipient of the American Academy of Achievement Award in the field of Public Relations in 1966.
He is the author of two books and numerous articles which draw upon his more than four decades of experience as a public relations counselor. The books are “The Making of a Public Relations Man” (David McKay Co., 1963) and “Corporate Public Relations” (Harper’s, 1958).
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