November 11, 1979 – St. Louis, Missouri Scott Cutlip introduced the study of public relations at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He spent 29 years on the school’s faculty. Cutlip then came to the University of Georgia’s Henry W. Grady School of Journalism and Mass Communication in 1975 where he … Continue reading Public Relations and Society
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November 12, 1978 – The Fairmont Hotel New Orleans, Louisiana George Hammond has been in the public relations field virtually since its emergence as a profession more than four decades ago. A native New Yorker, Hammond won a Pulitzer Prize Scholarship to Columbia University and graduated in 1928. He was a columnist and reporter on … Continue reading The Hour Strikes for Public Relations
November 13, 1977 Town & Country Hotel San Diego, California Mr. Center’s public relations experience began during World War II when he was called upon to establish a public relations section for the 13th Air Force Fighter Command at Guadalcanal. Following the war, he organized the public relations department for The Parker Pen Company and … Continue reading Public Relations: The Stubborn Opportunity
August 11, 1976 – Sheraton Boston Hotel Boston, Massachusetts Tim Traverse-Healy has served as Senior Partner in Traverse-Healy Ltd. from 1947, following his service in the Royal Marines Commandos and Special Forces during the Second World War. Tim founded the Institute of Public Relations (United Kingdom) in 1948 and was made a Fellow of the … Continue reading A Declaration of Interdependence
July 16, 1975 – University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa Mr. Weston joined Sun Oil Company in 1944 as assistant director of public relations. He was appointed director of public relations in 1965 and director of corporate public relations in 1970. Previously, he worked as a reporter and news editor for Platt’s Oilgram and National … Continue reading Public Relations: Trustee of the Possibility of a Free Society
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 … Continue reading The Function of Public Relations in Helping to Restore Confidence in American Institutions
July 13, 1973 – The University of Texas Austin, Texas Milton Fairman is one of our senior public relations practitioners. A native Chicagoan, he studied at Loyola University and the University of Chicago before beginning a career as reporter, feature writer and city editor on Chicago newspapers. In 1935 Fairman joined the staff of Harold … Continue reading The Practice of Public Relations
July 12, 1972 – Syracuse University Syracuse, New York Mr. Nelson is a native of Harrison, Arkansas and attended Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. His early career included editorial work for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and for several California newspapers. In 1927, he joined Southwestern Bell Telephone Company in St. Louis where he served … Continue reading The Public Problems of Business
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 … Continue reading Knowing Two Worlds, Thinking Two Things
November 18, 1969 – Century Plaza Hotel Los Angeles, California Mr. Chase was a founding member of PRSA, the chairman of its first Executive Committee and its president in 1956. His career includes faculty status at Harvard and Drake Universities and Radcliffe College in the field of international relations; editorship of the Des Moines Register … Continue reading By Any Other Name
November 18, 1968 – Palmer House Hilton Hotel Chicago, Illinois Dr. Pendray is an authority on industrial public relations, educational programs and management. He is also one of the country’s foremost proponents of space flight and rocket power. Born in Nebraska, he graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1924 and the year following received … Continue reading Time’s Arrow and the Fifth Estate
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 … Continue reading Public Relations and the Open Society