MEMBERSHIPS AND HONORS
Out of the best and most productive years of each man’s life, he should
carve a segment in which he puts his private career aside to serve his
community and his country, and thereby serve his children, his neighbors,
his fellow men, and the cause for freedom.
—David Lilienthal
My father served as a director of the Tompkins County Hospital
Corporation, a trustee of the Ithaca Festival of the Arts, a president of the
Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce, president of the Tompkins
County United Fund, associate chairman of the Laymen’s National Bible
Committee in New York City, president of the Board of Trustees of the
First Presbyterian Church of Ithaca, a member of the New York State
Council on Crime and Delinquency, and a member of the Governor’s
Committee on Hospital Costs by appointment of New York Governor
Nelson Rockefeller, and a trustee of the Hospital Review and Planning
Council of Central New York from 1966 to 1969.
He was chairman of the New York State Newspaper Foundation, in
Albany, New York, from 1977 to 1982, and a director of the New York
State Publishers Association beginning in 1975, becoming vice president
in 1980 and president in 1981. While there, he founded and became a
trustee of the New York State Publishers Foundation.
He also served on the Committee on Regulatory Review of the National
Association of Broadcasters from 1984 to 1987, was a member of the
Board of Trustees of The Museum of Broadcasting in New York City, and
a trustee of the Chowan Graphic Arts Foundation. In 1984, he was also
named to the Corporate Advisory Board of the National Association of
Securities Dealers, Inc. in Washington, DC.
He was a member of the Rotary Club, the Public Relations Society of
America, the American Association of Agricultural College Editors, the
Agricultural Relations Council, Phi Kappa Phi (Blue Key Honor Society),
the National Press Club of Washington, the North Carolina Association of
Broadcasters, the Southern Newspapers Publishers Association, American
Newspaper Publishers Association, Inland Daily Press Association, Press
