 Tom Harris
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Tom Harris, who served as president and partner of Golin Harris as well as being an author, independent management consultant and adjunct professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, died March 26 after a long illness.
Harris teamed with Al Golin in 1978 to form GH, after having founded Foote, Cone & Belding Public Relations, where he also served as president, in 1973.
He also held executive posts at Edelman; Needham, Harper & Steers (now DDB); and North Advertising.
After Golin, Harris started his own agency, working with such clients as Allstate Insurance, Gillette and Procter & Gamble.
“Tom not only was a smart and influential PR person in his own right, he was instrumental in growing Golin into a marketing PR powerhouse,” said Golin vice chair Ellen Ryan Mardiks in a statement on Golin’s website. “We don’t have Harris in our name anymore, but we do have his legacy in our client base and in our people.”
Andy Stanton, who was director of finance at Stanton PR, died Nov. 12 in New York. He was 39.
Kassie Canter, a media and entertainment PR veteran, died October 24 in New York. She was 67.
Leo Pearlstein, the “king of culinary PR,” died on Sept. 10 in Los Angeles at the age of 104.
Tim Metz, who joined Hill & Knowlton in 1989 after a 23-year career at the Wall Street Journal died Aug. 15. He was 86.
Bill Murray, who had been with MikeWorldWide for 35 years (most recently as EVP/national director, public affairs), has passed away at 67 after a battle with cancer.
