Meg Watson - Ellerbe, North Carolina

Major/Minor: Public Relations/Business

Academic Achievements: President’s List (Fall 2007-Spring 2009), Public Relations Academic Achievement Award for Sophomores (Spring 2008), Public Relations Academic Achievement Award for Juniors (Spring 2009), PRCA Outstanding Service Award (Spring 2009)

Jobs, Internships & Other Achievements: DCH Health System Communications Intern (Spring 2009), Alagasco Communications Intern (Summer 2009), Tuscaloosa County School System Title III Tutor (Fall 2008-Present)

Community Service: Children’s Hands on Museum, The RISE Center

Organization Membership: PRSSA, ASSCA, Kappa Tau Alpha, Reformed University Fellowship, Alpha Lambda Delta

The public relations consultant is ideally a constructive force in the community. - Edward L. Bernays It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. - Warren Buffett Corporate enterprise operates under franchise from public opinion. - John Hill Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. - Dwight D. Eisenhower The public relations counsel is first of all a student. His field of study is the public mind. - Edward L. Bernays The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity. - George Carlin I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? - Benjamin Disraeli I am easily satisfied with the very best. - Winston Churchill PR counsel: interpreting the public to his client and in helping to interpret his client to the public. - Edward L. Bernays Manage for tomorrow. - Arthur Page Know your market. Know your public. - Doris E. Fleischman It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead—and find no one there. - Franklin D. Roosevelt Prove it with action. - Arthur Page Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right. - Isaac Asimov Public opinion is entitled to the facts in matters of public concern. - John Hill Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics. - Jane Addams The quality of leadership, more than any other single factor, determines the success or failure of an organization. - Fred Fiedler & Martin Chemers All business begins with public permission and exists by public approval. - Arthur W. Page The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. - Max DePree Always do right—this will gratify some and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain

Meg Watson - Ellerbe, North Carolina

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