The Beginning

A memo sent by Peter Hamilton of Pittsburg State University, Kansas and George Foster of New York AT&T to the list of interested persons in the Public Relations Interest Group on June 4, 1984 summarized the first PRIG meeting at the San Francisco conference of ICA on May 27, 1984. Hamilton who headed the ICA Task Force on Public Relations Instruction basically alerted the national organization to a group of professionals interested in continuing the development of a Public Relations Interest Group within ICA and proceeded to contact this group to set up the first public relations program for the Hawaii meeting in 1985.

Those present at the meeting and listed in the letter sent by Hamilton and Foster were:

Forest Conklin, David Dozier, James Fee, Kathleen Garthright-Petelle, Howard Greenbaum, Roger Hadley, Vincent Hazleton, Susan Hellweg, Donald MacDonald, John Madsen, Bonita Dostal Neff, Sanford Peterson, Bob Ross, Steve Smith, Jim Van Leuven, Geoffrey Weinman.

Public Relations Division
 

Shirley Ramsey	Dean Kruckeberg	1998	Israel
Shirley Ramsey	Dean Kruckeberg	1999	San Francisco
Dean Kruckeberg	Bonita Dostal Neff	2000	Acapulco
Dean Kruckeberg	Bonita Dostal Neff	2001	Washington D.C.
Bonita Dostal Neff	Sherry Ferguson	2002	Korea
Bonita Dostal Neff	Sherry Ferguson	2003	San Diego
Sherry Ferguson	Hochang Shin	2004	New Orleans
Sherry Ferguson	Hochang Shin	2005	New York
Hochang Shin	Betteke van Ruler	2006	Dresden
Hochang Shin	Betteke van Ruler	2007	San Francisco