Welcome Your 2000-2001 IABC Executive Board.Chairman Charles Pizzo is principal of the New Orleans-based public relations agency P.R. PR, Inc., and a former assistant system operator of the PR & Marketing Forum for CompuServe. P.R. PR, Inc., is the Louisiana affiliate of Edelman Public Relations Worldwide and a member of the Phoenix Network of independent PR agencies. He served two terms as a director-at-large and as vice chairman on the international executive board and was past president of IABC/New Orleans. He frequently speaks on such topics as strategies for online communicators, media relations online, technology for entrepreneurs, and labor relations. Pizzo has written for PRSA's national magazine, Tactics, and served as a member of the editorial board and columnist for interactive PR, a national U.S. technology publication for communicators. He is a member of PRSA PRSA Public Relations Society of America PRSA Personal Retirement Savings Account PRSA Puerto Rican Student Association PRSA Puerto Rican Studies Association PRSA Park and Recreation Service Area PRSA President of the Royal Scottish Academy and a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America. Vice Chairman John G. Clemons, ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. , APR APR See: Annual Percentage Rate , is director of internal communication for Ameritech, Chicago, Ill., a Fortune 100 global communication services provider and division of SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. Communications Inc. He formerly was vice president of internal communication at Marriott International, Inc., where he was responsible for leading the company's global internal communication function. Clemons has spoken at IABC IABC International Association of Business Communicators IABC Indo-Americans for Better Community international conferences, served on IABC's multiculturalism committee and was a member of the 1996 international conference planning committee. He has served on the IABC executive board for more than five years and in 1997-98 was appointed a trustee for the IABC Research Foundation. Dually accredited accredited recognition by an appropriate authority that the performance of a particular institution has satisfied a prestated set of criteria. accredited herds cattle herds which have achieved a low level of reactors to, e.g. by IABC and PRSA, Clemons has received numerous communication awards. Among them are 1998 Silver Inkwell inkwell GI surgery A surgically constructed vagination-'intussusception' of a short sleeve of esophagus sewn into the stomach which, as intragastric pressure ↑, is compressed, forming a functional valve–eg, Nissen fundoplication. See Nissen procedure. (IABC/Washington, D.C.) awards of merit for a speech and for a special print project and a 1997 IABC Gold Quill award of merit for electronic communication. In 1997, IABC/Washington (D.C.) named him Communicator of the Year. Clemons was vice president of communication of IABC/Suncoast and executive vice president of IABC/Atlanta, where he was given the U.S. District 2 Chapter Newsletter Award. In 1996-97, Clemons served on the University of Florida's public relations advisory council. Clemons was cited by PR Week as one of "12 Leading African Americans in PR." He has a bachelor's degree in news journalism from Syracuse University. Past Chairman David P. Seifert, ABC, is strategic communication development manager at Hallmark Cards in Kansas City, Mo. His primary responsibility involves developing communication strategies and solutions for Hallmark's international business, with emphasis on subsidiaries in the United Kingdom and The Netherlands as well as Australia and New Zealand. Before joining Hallmark in 1988, he was supervisor of corporate communication for United Telecom, now Sprint, in Westwood, Kan. Seifert spent eight years on the National Collegiate Athletic Association National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Organization that administers U.S. intercollegiate athletics. It was formed in 1906 but did not acquire significant powers to enforce its rules until 1942. Headquartered at Indianapolis, Ind. (NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association ) staff after beginning his career as sports information director for the University of Detroit (Mich.). Seifert previously served two terms on the IABC executive board, including one as director of U.S. District 5, and held numerous leadership positions with Kansas City/IABC, including president in 1983. He was named the district's outstanding member in 1986. Two years later he received the chapter's top honor, the Arthur E. Lowell Award for Excellence in Organizational Communication. He is a life member of both the chapter and district. He was volunteer chairman of IABC's 1986 international conference and has served on the IABC Research Foundation Board of Trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. and the Gold Quill blue ribbon panel. Seifert is an honors graduate of the University of Detroit. |
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