HILL AND KNOWLTON EXECUTIVES MOVE INTO NEW POSTS
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May 7, 1966
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STAT
MAY 7 1966
Hill and Knowlton
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Executives Wove
'Into New Posts
Hill and Knowlton Inc., inter-
national public relations coun-
seling firm, has announced the
election of the following senior
management officials:
John W. Hill, founder of the
firm, has been elected chairman
.of its policy committee.
Bert C. Goss, president since
1955, has been elected chairman
of the board and chief executive
,officer.
? John G. Mapes, chairman of
the executive committee, has
been elected vicechairman of the
board.
Richard W. Darrow, execu-
tive vicepresident, will become
president of the company.
Hill, a native of Shelbyville,
Indiana, was a newspaperman
:and a magazine editor before
?he started his public relations
firm in 1927 in Cleveland.
Goss was in journalism and
college teaching before enter-
ing public relations in 1944.
Mapes attended Kenyon Col- ,
lege in Ohio before becoming a
reporter for the Cleveland
Press. In 1929, he went to the
American Society for Metals as
assistant editor of Metal Prog-
ress and in charge of public
relations. In 1934, he joined
Hill and Knowlton and Ameri-
can Iron and Steel Institute as
director of public relations for '
the Institute.
Darrow, 50, is in his 25th
year in public relations. He.
joined Hill and Knowlton in
1952. Previously he was assist-
ant director of public relations
for Curtiss-Wright Corporation,
assistant to the president of the
American Meat Institute and
director of public relations and
advertising of the Glenn L. Mar-
tin Company.
An Ohio native, and a 1936
graduate of Ohio Wesleyan Uni-
versity, he is a former news-
paperman in Ohio and Wash
+izgton, D. C.
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