By Kevin McCauley
The Public Relations Society has nominated Joe Cohen, senior VP at New Jersey’s MWW, chair-elect; Blake Lewis, principal of Lewis PR in Dallas, treasurer, and Kathy Barbour, PA manager of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, secretary, for service during the upcoming year.
Barbour, Cohen |
Each candidate must win a majority of the vote to take place at the Society’s annual meeting slated for San Francisco on Oct. 13.
Other nominees for board positions are:
- Tri-State district representative -- Anita Ford Saunders, communications manager at Yankee Gas, Berlin, Conn.
- Mid-Atlantic district -- Felicia Walker Blow, VP/institutional advancement at Paul D. Camp Community College in Franklin, Va.
- East Central district -- Sonja Popp-Stahly, communications manager at Lilly Bio-Medicines, Eli Lilly and Co. Indianapolis
- Western district -- Marisa Vallbona, President at CIM Inc. San Diego
- Directors at large -- Kelly J. Davis, CEO at Davis PR and Marketing in Columbia, S.C. and Susan Walton, VP/university and PA at University of North Dakota in Grand Forks.
Outgoing chair/CEO Gerald Corbett called the nominees “a passionate group of public relations professionals.”
A challenger can run against the PR Society anointed candidates if he or she files ten signatures of support from Assembly delegates with h.q. by Sept. 13.
The candidates have to be APR, but not the delegates. |