{"id":1283,"date":"2014-07-30T13:25:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T20:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2018-05-09T10:23:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T17:23:30","slug":"harrison-bruce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1283","title":{"rendered":"HARRISON, E. BRUCE, 1932-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Corporate communications consultant; Public relations practitioner; journalist. Born&#8211;\u00a0 April 3, 1932, Lanett. Parents&#8211;Emmett Bruce and Jenelle Williams Harrison.\u00a0 Married Lucy White, 1954 \u00a0(divorced 1971). Children&#8211;three. Married Patricia de Stacy Spain, August 23, 1973.\u00a0 Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.A. 1954; \u00a0postgraduate study, Catholic University. While at University of Alabama, editor of Crimson-White, 1953-1954. Reporter, Talladega News, 1955; Columbus Ledger, 1956. Administrative assistant, Rep. Kenneth Roberts, Washington, D.C., 1957-61;\u00a0 worked on campaign of John F. Kennedy, 1960.\u00a0 Public relations director, Manufacturing Chemists Association, 1961-69; vice-president, Freeport Minerals, 1969-73. Founded \u00a0E. Bruce Harrison, Co. , 1973; president, 1973-1997.\u00a0 Chairman and CEO, consulting firm EnviroComm International, 1992-\u00a0 Member of the National Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists, and other professional organizations. Received National Endowment for the Humanities Award, 1967, for his play, Behind the Paper Faces; 1991, elected to the College of Fellows of the Public Relations Society of America; 2000, elected to the Public Relations Hall of Fame; 2009, received the Distinguished Service Award of the Arthur W. Page Company.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Birmingham News, May 7, 1967; letter from Bruce Harrison; Who&#8217;s Who online; ancestry.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Playwright:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Behind the Paper Faces. (Produced at Los Alamos Playhouse, Los Alamos, N.M., 1967)<\/p>\n<p>The Chuckledust Caper. Washington, D.C.; Arena Stage, 1968.<\/p>\n<p>The Day the Senate Fell in Love. Washington, D.C.; Catholic University, 1967.<\/p>\n<p>Environmental Communications and Public Relations Handbook.\u00a0 Government Institute, 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Going Green:\u00a0 How to Communicate your Company&#8217;s Environmental Committment.\u00a0 Homewood, IL:\u00a0 Business One Irwin, 1993.<\/p>\n<p>11,000 Pieces of Jade. New York; Dramarena, 1969.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Corporate communications consultant; Public relations practitioner; journalist. Born&#8211;\u00a0 April 3, 1932, Lanett. Parents&#8211;Emmett Bruce and Jenelle Williams Harrison.\u00a0 Married Lucy White, 1954 \u00a0(divorced 1971). Children&#8211;three. Married Patricia de Stacy Spain, August 23, 1973.\u00a0 Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.A. 1954; \u00a0postgraduate study, Catholic University. While at University of Alabama, editor of Crimson-White, 1953-1954. Reporter, Talladega [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-g-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8023,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions\/8023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}