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Radio and television commercial script writer with J. Walter Thompson Co.

Specialist in corporate advertising; executive with Doyle Dane Bernbach agency and Brouillard Communications, Inc., a subsidiary of J. Walter Thompson Co.

Executive with J. Walter Thompson; Creative Director of JWT/Los Angeles.

Co-founder of the Gerson, Howe & Johnson advertising agency.
Consists of diskettes of his 1994–1995 journal, microfilm, a video tape, a report on United Airlines' role in the airport industry, a manuscript (fundamentally detailing the building of a small agency) concerning the beginning of Gerson, Howe & Johnson, and other short writings.

Owner of R. P. Hall & Co., which manufactured and sold patent medicines, most notably "Hall's Whisker Dye" and "Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer," of Nashua, New Hampshire.

Chief Executive Officer of J. Walter Thompson's Frankfurt (Germany) Office in the 1960s; Director of JWT German-language advertising operations in Europe. Founding member of JWT's European Management Group.

Executive with J. Walter Thompson Co. New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Amsterdam offices.

Advertising copy writer and executive for several American agencies, including BBDO, Normal Craig & Kummel, J. Walter Thompson (JWT), and Scali McCabe Sloves. Managed a radio advertising and production company, Joy Radio.

Artist and advertising executive with the Willard B. Golovin agency, and director of the Bayer Gallery (art) in New York, NY.

Chairman and CEO of Compton Advertising and later Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide.

Copy writer and executive with J. Walter Thompson Co.; Creative Director of the JWT New York office in the 1970s.

Served as Executive Vice President of the Finance division, and as Chief Financial Officer, at JWT.

Award-winning commercial photographer in the advertising, fashion, and travel fields.

Executive with Foster & Kleiser Outdoor Advertising Company 1936–1979.

John J. Hamilton was an executive with JWT during the 1970s and 1980s.
Includes company policy documents and reports, research reports, new business and client presentations, and other printed materials. Companies represented include JWT offices in San Francisco, India (Hindustan Thompson) and Hong Kong; CBS; Deutsche Bank and Lufthansa.

Professor Emeritus of Management and Marketing at Virginia State University. Pioneered governmental and commercial awareness of African American advertising markets and, in the 1970s, became the Director of the Virginia State Office of Minority Business Enterprise and Special Assistant to the Governor for Minority Enterprise.

Advertising executive first with Ogilvy & Mather and later co-founded Merkley Newman Harty ad agency.

Executive with Benton & Bowles; Ogilvy Benson and Mather; Kenyon & Eckhardt; Batton, Barton, Durstine & Osborn; McCann Erickson; and J. Walter Thompson.

Executive with J. Walter Thompson's Cincinnati (Ohio) Office in the 1920s; Vice President of J. Walter Thompson New York 1930s–1950s.

Managing Director of J. Walter Thompson's Frankfurt (Germany) Office in the 1960s and 1970s.

Worked in radio broadcasting and public relations at J. Walter Thompson Company.

Executive with J. Walter Thompson Co. offices in Chicago, San Francisco, Berlin, Vienna, and Warsaw in the 1920s and 1930s; Director of J. Walter Thompson Ltd. (Canada) in the 1950s.

Sales representative and executive for numerous transit advertising companies.

Production Director and executive in the Radio/TV Department of J. Walter Thompson Co. during the 1940s and 1950s.

Executive with J. Walter Thompson Co. offices in Frankfurt, Zurich, and Vienna in the 1970s.

Chief Executive Officer of J. Walter Thompson Co. in the 1970s and 1980s; Chairman of the American Association of Advertising Agencies in the 1980s.

Financial executive at JWT's Toronto and New York offices during the 1960s–1970s, holding the positions of Secretary-Treasurer and Executive Vice-President; elected to JWT's Board of Directors in 1974.
The papers cover the years 1930–1984, with the bulk of the collection dating from the late 1970s, and contains files primarily relating to Jones's work as a financial executive and administrator at JWT.

Executive with Leo Burnett Company, Campbell-Ewald Company, D.P. Brother and Company, Wilding Advertising, and William R.Biggs/Gilmore Associates advertising agencies; professor of advertising at Michigan State University.

Executive with J. Walter Thompson Co.; taught at Northwestern University.

Kennedy was appointed JWT's Director of Human Resources in 1980.
These files document Kennedy's responsibilities in overseeing the full range of personnel activities for all of JWT's domestic offices as well as worldwide staffing and training. Includes files on numerous individuals, various personnel policies, and JWT programming for staff.

Director of J. Walter Thompson's London (U.K.) Office in the 1960s; Chief Operating Officer of J. Walter Thompson New York in the 1980s.

Executive with the J. Walter Thompson Company specializing in corporate development and account management.

Burt Manning was an advertising executive at JWT who served as Chief Creative Officer and Chairman/Chief Executive Officer (1987–1998).

Regional Vice President of Marsteller, Inc. and Director of Lando, Inc.

Social activist and advertising executive with Young & Rubicam, Ogilvy Benson & Mather, C.J. Laroche & Co., and McCaffrey & McCall agencies.

Founder and head of McKinney & Silver Advertising Agency, one of the largest advertising agencies in the Southeastern US.

Director of International Operations and Vice Chairman of the Board of J. Walter Thompson Co. A key figure in Thompson's expansion as a global company beginning in the 1930s.

Direct marketing specialist; Chairman of the Board of J. Walter Thompson Co. in the 1980s.

Blaise Newman was a longtime JWT Detroit executive who died in early 2002.
His collection (02-227) (7254 items, 15.6 lin. ft.; dated [1964]-2002 and n.d., bulk 1979-1999) contains primarily reader files, internal and external memoranda, press and news releases, and printed material collected and used by Newman during his advertising career. Also includes anniversary awards and other JWT memorabilia; videotapes, including client spots; and various other office and human resources correspondence, memoranda, and policies and procedures.

Office Manager of the J. Walter Thompson (JWT) Entertainment Group, and Account Representative for the Health & Tennis Corporation account.