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| Bob Cohn |
Legendary PR man Bob Cohn, who launched Cohn & Wolfe with Norman Wolfe in 1971, died in Tuscaloosa on July 4. He was 88.
Atlanta-based C&W emerged as a consumer products & sports powerhouse, serving blue-chip clients such as Coca-Cola, FedEx and Chick-fil-A.
Young & Rubicam acquired the firm and merged it with Burson-Marsteller. C&W exists today as BCW Global, which is a unit of WPP.
Brooklyn-born Cohn served in the Air Force and enrolled at the University of Alabama via the GI Bill.
He became editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, The Crimson White and took a reporter job at the Montgomery Advertiser following graduation.
As a journalist, Cohn covered the Civil Rights Movement and served as Atlanta bureau chief for a number of Georgia newspapers.
In 2021, Cohn and wife, June, moved to a senior living facility at the University of Alabama campus.
A celebration of Cohn’s life is slated for August 5 in Barge Commons at The Westminster Schools in Atlanta.
Donations may be made in Cohn’s name to Hospice of West Alabama, 3851 Loop Road, Tuscaloosa, AL 35404.
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.
