A. L. HEADLEY, 63, TEACHER AT ASU, DIES IN MEMPHIS
JONESBORO -- Adrian L. Headley, 63, assistant professor at the College of
Communications at Arkansas State University, died Monday at Baptist Memorial
Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.
Headley died of a long-term illness, an ASU spokesman said.
He had lived in Jonesboro since 1981 and had previously taught at Salem
College in West Virginia and at Central Michigan University.
Before entering the teaching position, Headley worked on daily and weekly
newspapers in West Virginia. Immediately before coming to Jonesboro, he
served as chairman of the communications department at the University of
Detroit.
He attended Amherst College in Massachusetts and received his bachelor's
degree from Atlantic Union College in Massachusetts. He earned a master's
degree in journalism in 1964 from Ohio State University at Athens and later
studied toward a doctorate at Iowa State University in Iowa City.
Active as an office is the Public Relations Society of America, working with
both the Little Rock and Memphis chapters, Headley served as a member of the
National PRSA Judicial Ethics Committee and has been a public relations
consultant to several local organizations.
He was a member of the Jonesboro Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Pauline Headley; a daughter, Mrs. Nanci
Kotowski of Clarksburg, W.Va.; a son, Bryan Headley of Philippi, W.Va.; and
two grandchildren.
The body was cremated and burial will be in West Virginia.
The Adrian L. Headley Textbook Scholarship Fund has been created for
deserving students at Arkansas State University. Send memorial gifts to the
Office of Development, P.O. Box 1990, Arkansas State University, State
University, Arkansas 72467.
Source: The Arkansas Democrat, May 22, 1986
JOURNALIST AND EDUCATOR DIES AT 63
MEMPHIS -- Adrian L. Headley, 63, of Jonesboro, head of the Arkansas State
University Public Relations Department, died Monday at Baptist Memorial
Hospital at Memphis.
Mr. Headley came to Arkansas in 1981 and served at ASU as an assistant
professor of journalism and co-ordinated the public relations sequence in
the University's College of Communications.
From 1969 until 1981, Mr. Headley was associated with the University of
Detroit, where he served four years as chairman of the Communications
Studies Department and also co-ordinated public relations.
From 1965 until 1969, Mr. Headley was an assistant professor of journalism
at Central Michigan University at Mount Pleasant. He also was an instructor
of journalism and English at Salem College at Salem, W.Va.
Mr. Headley also was editor of the Mason County, W.Va., News from 1957 until
1959 and served on the news staff of the Parkersburg, W.Va. News from 1959
until 1964.
He also was district superintendent of the Greater New York Conference of
Seventh-day Adventists at Forest Hills, N.Y.
Mr. Headley was president-elect of the Little Rock and Memphis chapters of
the Public Relations Society of America. He was a member of the PRSA
Southwest district judicial panel, a member of Kappa Tau Alpha, the
journalism honor society, at Detroit, and a former member of the Society of
Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi.
Survivors are his wife, Pauline Headley; a son, Bryan Headley of Philippi,
W.Va., a daughter, Nanci Kotowski of Clarksburg, W.Va., and two
grandchildren.
The body was cremated. Burial will be in West Virginia. Memorials may be
made to Adrian L. Headley Textbook Scholarship Fund, Office of Development,
P.O. Box 1990, State University, Ark. 72467.
Source: Gazette State News, undated
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