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Join alumni and friends of Kent State University for our quarterly Cleveland Alumni Networking Luncheons.
Wednesday, Dec. 16, at:
Cleveland City Club, Pogue Room
850 Euclid Ave
Cleveland, OH 44114
www.cityclub.org
Cost per ticket is $15 for Alumni Association members, $20 for non-members, which includes a buffet lunch. Limited seating is available; please R.S.V.P. by Friday, Dec. 11.
Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009
Featured Alumni Speaker Bio
Nora Jacobs, APR, '73
Nora Jacobs is a senior public relations executive with three decades of agency and corporate experience. Over the years, she has counseled top executives at companies, associations, nonprofits and professional service firms throughout the country on ways to seize market opportunities and overcome obstacles to growth using communications to achieve organizational objectives.
A results-oriented strategist, Nora has a strong portfolio of client work in consumer and industrial products, healthcare, biotechnology, education and economic development. Her assignments have encompassed crisis communications, issues management, stakeholder and thought-leader communications, community relations, branding, and consumer and business-to-business marketing.
Until she retired in April 2009, Nora served as executive vice president of Ohio-based Edward Howard, the nation’s oldest independent public relations firm. There, she was a member of its board of directors and executive committee, with management responsi-bility for its largest office, as well as staffing and training firm-wide. During her tenure with the firm, she managed some of Edward Howard’s largest accounts and was instrumental in developing numerous management innovations still in use today at the firm in areas including new business development, firm marketing and staff training. She began her career at BFGoodrich Chemical Group, then a Fortune 500 division of the BFGoodrich Company.
She currently serves as senior counsel to Edward Howard, and also is an independent communications consultant to various companies and organizations.
Nora holds a bachelor’s degree from Kent State University and a master’s degree from John Carroll University. She is a member of the Kent State University Foundation Board, a director and past-president of the Kent State National Alumni Association, president of the Kent State Honors College Advisory Board, a director of the Cleveland Engineering Society and an accredited member of the Public Relations Society of America. She has held board leadership positions with several other organizations.
A three-time Silver Anvil winner, the highest award given by the public relations profession, Nora is the recipient of numerous other communications awards, including a Gold World Award from the International Public Relations Association. She has received the Distinguished Honors Alumni Award from Kent State’s Honors College, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from Kent’s College of Arts and Sciences.
In 2009, she was presented with the Davis Young Award for Exceptional Mentors by the Cleveland Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America in recognition of the work she has done to help young and intermediate-level professionals advance in the field.
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