History of PR

Some of you may not know, but my major at Ohio Northern University is Public Relations. For this blog, I decided to do some digging into the history for my major and discovered a woman names Betsy Plank. Mrs. Plank is also commonly referred to as the "First Lady of Public Relations" and its for a very good reason. 

 Betsy's career lasted 63 years and she was confronted with many firsts, hence the nickname. She graduated from the University of Alabama in 1944, Betsy acheived national and international recognition during a career in corporate and agency public relations. 

 "Betsy achieved multiple firsts for women, being the first to head a division of Illinois Bell, and as president of the Publicity Club of Chicago and PRSA (1973). She was also the first person ever to receive three of PRSA’s top individual honors: The Gold Anvil Award (1977), the Paul M. Lund Public Service Award (1989) and the Patrick Jackson Award for Distinguished Service to PRSA (2001). She was also honored with the first Arthur W. Page Society’s Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award and the Public Relations Institute’s Hamilton Award in 2002." (The Plank Center) 

 Betsy had amazing accomplishment and an an extremely successful career, I can only dream of growing up to create this much of an impact of the field as well. 

Comments

  1. Paige HartingsMarch 30, 2020 at 12:51 PM

    Betsy looks and sounds like a great person. With her list of achievements, she has had a successful career. I don't think we would be here today in Social Media Principles without Betsy's dedication to Public Relations. Great blog, Madylin!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Good Studying Habits

Image
Studying can be a struggle but I’m hoping some of these ideas can help you focus better and retain more information faster.  The first thing you’re going to want to do is take a learning styles test. Click here to take it.   Based off of your results you can change your studying habits to work well with how you learn. For example, I am a visual learner. I make my notes very colorful and draw diagrams and tables, I also learn more efficient if I re-write what I’m studying.  You can also take a few different approaches. If you’re in class and learn a concept for the first time that you think you understand but wish you could hear it again or even re-worded, go on YouTube and watch a crash course over it. They have a lot of videos covering almost anything you learn in class.  You can also make a Kahoot or Quizlet to study off of. I don’t use this method personally, but I have a few friends that do it and swear by it. If you’re looking for a new way to stud...
Read more

Missing Loved Ones Pt. 1

Image
There are two people I miss most in the world. My Grammy and my Papa, my Grammy passed when I was 17 and my Papa passed when I was 15. In this Blog I will be talking about my Papa and in the part two, I will talk about my Grammy.             Ever since I was a baby, my Papa and I had a very special bond. He gave me the most special nickname I could ask for. He only ever called me “Gypsy” and there is a very funny reason why. When my mom and dad announced that my name was going to be Madylin, my Papa told them that he didn’t like it and that it was a gypsy name which is where the nickname started. For 15, my papa never called me Madylin or Mady, only Gypsy.              My Papa and I had many inside jokes, but my favorite was our sign language. For example, if you ever saw us in a public setting put our arms straight up in the air, with palms facing in, i...
Read more

It's Getting Warm

Image
  In Michigan, I feel as though we are the last to get the warm weather. My friends from Ohio that I’ve made at school have been posting the 70-degree weather they are enjoying while I am inside in the warm because its 40 degrees outside. Well, lucky for me and my fellow Michiganders, it’s beginning to warm up here. All last week into the begging of this week, I’ve been spending my quarantine days at my neighbors (Madison) hot tub hanging out. She’s a senior in high school this year so she’s enjoys the company during this hard time.   As we’ve been hanging out in the, what we think, is hot weather (AKA 50 degrees) we have been trying different tropical drinks and snacks to really make us feel like were in the midst of summertime in *southern* Michigan.    I’m going to share our two favorite things we’ve tried so far.  Coconut smoothie – coconut milk, coconut, frozen: banana and pineapple, honey, and cinnamon Sunshine smoothie- vanilla almond ...
Read more