Veteran public relations professional Al Golin is this year’s winner of the Arthur W. Page Society’s Hall of Fame Award. The chairman of Chicago-based GolinHarris will be inducted during the Society’s Annual Conference September 13-15 at Westfields Marriott Conference Center in Chantilly VA.

Golin will become the 20 th member of the Hall of Fame, which honors practitioners for career achievement and outstanding contributions to the profession. With close to 50 years’ experience in the industry, Golin meets both criteria most aptly. The longtime Page Society member was named by PRWeek one of the 100 influential public relations people of the 20 th century.

His firm, GolinHarris, which has represented the McDonalds account for more than 45 years, also represents such companies as Bristol-Myers Squibb, Coors Brewing Co., Florida Department of Citrus, Levi Strauss & Co., Lowe’s Companies, National Peanut Board, Nestle, Nintendo of America, Owens Corning, Sprint, Texas Instruments, Toyota Motor Sales of America and Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.

As a consultant to the U. S. Department of Commerce, Golin’s work centered on a major public relations awareness program for U. S. companies on the benefits of exporting to help our economy, increase employment and reduce the balance of trade deficit.

Golin has lectured at Princeton University, Dartmouth College, Yale University, Northwestern University, New York University and the Annenberg Communication School at the University of Southern California. His book, Trust or Consequences, published by Amacom Books, is currently in distribution. In it, Golin includes trust strategies successfully used at McDonald’s Gerber and Toyota and urges businesses to build trust today to avoid losing their markets tomorrow.

In addition to the Page Society, he is a member of the Public Relations Seminar and the Public Relations Society of America, and he has received Lifetime Achievement Awards from PRSA, the Publicity Club of Chicago and Inside PR magazine.

Golin serves on the board of trustees of The Goodman Theatre of Chicago and Roosevelt University. He is a founding board member of Ronald McDonald House Charities, and is public relations advisor to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Previous winners of the Hall of Fame Award were John H. Page (1985), Allen H. Center (1986), Scott M. Cutlip, Ph.D. (1987), Hale Nelson (1988), W. Howard Chase (1989), Tim Traverse-Healy, O.B.E. (1990), Harold Burson (1991), Chester Burger (1992), Edward M. Block (1993), Lawrence G. Foster (1994), John A. Koten (1995), Ronald E. Rhody (1996), Daniel J. Edelman (1997), Grant N. Horne (1998), Richard R. Mau (1999), John D. Graham (2000), Kurt P. Stocker (2001), Marilyn Laurie (2002), and Willard D. (Bill) Nielsen (2003).

About the Arthur W. Page Society

The Arthur W. Page Society is a professional association composed primarily of the chief communications officers (CCOs) of the world's top multinational corporations, and the CEOs of the world's largest public relations agencies. The organization's members also include academics from the leading business and communications schools.

The Page Society is dedicated to strengthening the management policy role of chief communications officers. The Page Society is upheld by management concepts, known as the Page Principles, which have been tested for more than half a century and have earned the support and respect of chief executive officers throughout the country. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Arthur W. Page Society.