Past Lectures
The Function of Public Relations in Helping to Restore Confidence in American Institutions
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 ...
The Practice of Public Relations
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 W. Ickes, who was then Secretary of the Interior and Public Works Administrator, asassistant director of information. After two years in Washington, Fairman was engaged by Borden, Inc. to organize a regional public relations office in Columbus, Ohio. He was appointed the corporation’s ...
The Public Problems of Business
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 for 10 years in a variety of public relations and advertising positions. In 1937, Mr. Nelson accepted a position with Illinois Bell Telephone Company. His World War II military service was in the Army, first in the Signal Corps and later in the War Department ...
Knowing Two Worlds, Thinking Two Things
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 ...
By Any Other Name
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 and Tribune; editorship of the Foreign Letter of the Whaley-Eaton Service; vice presidency of the American Retail Federation; founding directorships of the public relations departments of General Mills, in Minneapolis, and General Foods, in New York. He was a partner in the then ...
Time’s Arrow and the Fifth Estate
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 an M.A. from Columbia University. In 1936, he joined Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company (now Westinghouse Electric Corporation) as Assistant to the President, assigned to the task of developing a complete public relations program and staff for the company. During this period, he launched ...
Public Relations and the Open Society
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 ...
After the Fall-Opportunity 1918-1945
November 7, 1966 - New York Hilton Hotel New York, New York Joe. B. Frantz, an historian of the American West and a close friend of Lyndon B. Johnson, presented this lecture at the national conference of the Public Relations Society of America. Professor Frantz, the author or co-author of more than two dozen books, serves on the history faculty at the University of Texas at Austin. He won a best-book prize in 1951 from the Texas Institute of Letters for the biography “Gail Borden: Dairyman to a Nation.” He was born in Weatherford, Texas, and was a journalism graduate ...
Public Relations and the Progressive Surge 1898-1917
November 19, 1965 - Americana Hotel New York, New York This Lecture was presented by Dr. Eric F. Goldman, Special Consultant to the President, at the national conference of the Public Relations Society of America. Dr. Goldman has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Library of Congress Fellow and a member of the Board of Councilors of the Society of American Historians. Dr. Goldman is the author of a number of books and was the 1952 winner of the Bancroft Prize for distinguished American history. He was born in Washington, D.C. in 1915. He was educated at the ...
The Man Who Made Canada
November 9, 1964 - Queen Elizabeth Hotel Montreal, Quebec, Canada This lecture, sponsored by the Foundation for Public Relations Research & Education (forerunner of the Institute for Public Relations) was presented at the national conference of the Public Relations Society of America. Mr. Stanley is a noted Canadian historian and the author of many books including “The Birth of Western Canada: A History of the Riel Rebellions” and “Canada’s Soldier: The Military History of an Unmilitary People.”
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