| Show MANAGERS OVER HALF-CENTURY under Rasmussendirection frombasic handful to 118 different accounts requiring two full-time people At the tlme of his retirement June 1968 the Clipping Service was relaying from000 to 10 000 clipped stories per month to its employ ers Subsequently the Clipping Service has been an ongoing subsidiary of the association and continues to attractbroad crosssection of clients who desire to know what the press is saying about them their organization or their product Bluntly stated UPA has not hadtotally happy history with its executives There were those dismissed by disgruntled publishers who felt they werenbeing well-represented And in some cases there were contentions by ROD RASMUSSEN he built UPA clipping service one or more members that dishonesty had taken place Association historians deplore the act of Romeyn who evidently destroyed records and minutes covering the 1930s and 1940s when he was dismissed afterlengthy controversy Whether it was deliberate or inadvertent was never deter mined but UPAofficers found similar records missing after the departure of two subsequent managers Because the association consists of rather independent types as evidenced by the diversity of their publications itnot surprising that almost all managers have been criticized by individuals or groups during their tenure More often than not the grievance related to advertisingschedule placed in one paper but not in another or failure to sell specific accounts publisher felt should be in his or her paper But not all complaints deal with advertising as almost all ex-managers will testify and the length of their tenure in the position directly 305 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
