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Galanaugh Recognized by Delaware Press Association as
2006 Communicator of Achievement
Wilmington, Delaware: Public Relations Consultant, Karen Galanaugh, received the 2006 Communicator of Achievement Award (COA) from the Delaware Press Association (DPA) at its annual holiday luncheon on December 3. For the first time in the history of the Delaware Press Association, a public relations professional was recognized.
The Communicator of Achievement Award is the highest honor DPA bestows on its members. First and foremost, the COA Award is given for a lifetime of achievement in the communications profession. And second, it recognizes exemplary service to the community and to humanity as well as to the profession, especially to DPA and the National Federation of Press Women.
Karen Galanaugh, APR, is a 25-year veteran practitioner of public relations and owner of Galanaugh & Company Public Relations and Marketing Communications, based in Wilmington, Delaware. She is accredited by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and has served as the president of the Delaware Chapter of PRSA. Karen provides counsel and strategic communications for businesses and individuals. She has worked with Alan Dershowitz, Christopher Reeve, and with the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games. In Delaware, clients include MySherpa Computer Technology Services and the Brandywine Zoo.
Karen has won several national awards throughout the years for a variety of communications work from the National Federation of Press Women, and was recognized in 1985 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation as the "Most Effective Community Organizer" for her long campaign to preserve a Frederick Law Olmsted landscape and historic hospital complex in White Plains, New York.
Prior to starting her PR business in New York, Karen worked on the production crews of feature films and television commercials and also on the editorial staffs at Scholastic Publications and OMNI/Penthouse Publications.
"I'm too young to be awarded a 'lifetime' achievement honor!" complained Galanaugh during her acceptance speech. "However, now that I'm older, I better understand how George Burns felt when I first sat down with him for an interview for Penthouse Magazine. He said, 'Honey, why would Penthouse be interested in me? I'm so old I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty."
During the award ceremony, Karen was visibly moved by the kudos from her colleagues and she expressed her sincere gratitude and appreciation of the honor. In typical self-effacing humor, upon accepting the award, she joked, "You guys must be dredging the bottom of the barrel here; for a press association to award a PR practitioner...given the stereotypical antagonism between the two." She continued, "It makes this honor even sweeter."
Karen was also praised for her volunteer work with many organizations over the years, including co-founding the Animal Welfare Project, an organization that finds homes for animals and raises money to certify "Animal Cops," and with the Reins of Life Therapeutic Horseback Riding Program for children and young adults with special needs, where she volunteers as a equine handler.
The Delaware Press Association, an affiliate of the National Federation of Press Women (NFPW) since 1977, is a network of more than one hundred journalists, broadcasters, public relations specialists, graphic designers, photojournalists, educators, authors, poets and freelancers who are dedicated to the highest standards of excellence in communication and to protecting First Amendment freedoms. For more information on DPA, contact Executive Director Katherine Ward, 302-655-2175.
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