 Dennis McGrath |
Dennis McGrath, a former president/CEO of Mona, Meyer, McGrath & Gavin, died May 13. He was 81.
Weber Shandwick acquired MMM&G, which became its Minneapolis office. McGrath headed Weber Shandwick's New York and Tokyo offices.
Following his departure from the Interpublic unit, McGrath joined the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis as communications director in 2002. During a ten-year stint, he dealt with sex abuse cases and a major consolidation of local parishes.
McGrath also formed McGrath-Buckley Communications Counseling with his wife, Betsy.
He joined Himle Rapp as senior counsel in 2013 and stepped down last year.
Frank Ramos, who headed the PR department for the doomed-to-fail New York Jets for 39 years, died on Jan. 27. He was 87.
He practiced PR for 70 years. We were friends for 30. Here's the wizard I knew.
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.
