Fred Morgan, APR, Fellow PRSA presents his namesake scholarship to Elyse Jones with then National Chair Jane Dvorak, APR, Fellow PRSA and Chapter President JP Arnold, APR.

Are you a public relations professional with just one to five years experience? We want to let you know about a great opportunity to get your membership dues paid for PRSA. This is a $300+ offer. 

Below is the application for the scholarship. Deadline is September 30, 2019. Completed applications can be emailed to PikesPeakPRSA@prsa.org.

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Bio:  Fred Morgan, APR, Fellow PRSA

FRED MORGAN is the senior member of PRSA’s Pikes Peak Chapter, having joined the Society in 1971. He’s a retired public relations practitioner who is currently serving as chapter treasurer and accreditation chair.

He was the 2002 president of the Pikes Peak Chapter, the 1997 president of PRSA’s New Mexico Chapter and served as a member of PRSA’s national board of directors during 1998 and 1999. During his time with the New Mexico Chapter, he earned four PRSA Chapter Excellence Awards--one in 1994, one in 1995 and two in 1997--and was awarded the chapter’s 2003 Vista Award for outstanding lifetime achievement in the field of PR. In 2009, he received the Pikes Peak Chapter’s Pinnacle Award for outstanding lifetime achievement in public relations. He’s an accredited member of the Society (1973) and was inducted into its College of Fellows in 1996.

Since 2002, the Pikes Peak Chapter has managed the Colorado Springs Crisis Communications Network (CCN), a group of public affairs people who would have to respond to a community-wide crisis. He facilitated the writing of the group’s public affairs/operations plan, and has served as CCN’s administrator and meeting facilitator for 14 of the past 15 years.

Morgan was an affiliate faculty member for Regis University (2004-2005), teaching public relations courses to undergraduate adult students in Colorado Springs.

He served as manager of public affairs for Jacobs Engineering Group in Albuquerque, N.M., from 1993 to 1998. In that capacity, he was responsible for providing comprehensive public relations support to the U.S. Department of Energy for its oldest, largest, and most successful environmental cleanup project.

Prior to that he served 27 years as a public affairs officer for the U.S. Air Fore. During that time, he spent 11 years overseas working in Europe and North Africa. Key military assignments included director of public affairs for Air Force Space Command in Colorado Springs, Colo.; director of the Secretary of the Air Force’s regional public affairs office in Los Angeles; deputy director of public affairs for the U.S. Air Forces in Europe at Ramstein.

Fred's contributions to the Pikes Peak Chapter

• October 1998 – Joined Pikes Peak Chapter 
• 1998-1999 – Member, PRSA National Board of Directors 
• 2000 – Assisted accreditation chair (who lived in Pueblo) by offering APR workshop here in the Springs 
• 2001 – Chapter treasurer, membership chair and assembly delegate 
• 2002 – Chapter president 
•  Wrote first chapter bylaws 
• Established first chapter awards program 
• Established first chapter professional development workshop 
• Wrote first chapter strategic plan 
• Established first electronic chapter newsletter 
• Facilitated the writing of the CCN plan 
• Asked to serve as first CCN administrator and meeting facilitator 
• 2003 – Immediate past chapter president and CCN administrator 
• 2004 – Chapter ethics chair and CCN Administrator 
• 2005 – Chapter ethics chair and CCN Administrator 
• 2006 – No records; CCN administrator 
• 2007 – Chapter ethics chair, accreditation chair and CCN administrator 
• 2008 – Chapter accreditation chair, assisted awards chair write nomination criteria for Pinnacle and Vista Awards, and CCN administrator 
• 2009 – Chapter treasurer, accreditation chair and CCN administrator; received chapter’s first Pinnacle Award 
• 2010 – Chapter accreditation chair and CCN administrator 
• 2011 – Chapter director-at-large, accreditation chair and CCN administrator 
• 2012 – Chapter director-at-large, accreditation chair and CCN administrator 
• 2013 – Chapter accreditation chair and CCN administrator 
• 2014 – Chapter director-at-large, accreditation chair and CCN administrator 
• 2015 – Chapter accreditation chair and CCN administrator 
• 2016 – Chapter treasurer, accreditation chair and CCN administrator 
• 2017 – Chapter treasurer, accreditation chair and CCN administrator

 Chapter Accreditation Program

• Coached APR candidates by offering workshops – 1993 to present 
• Twenty-four of our 70 chapter members are accredited – 34 percent

(average for PRSA chapters is 19-20 percent)

• Initially offered two APR workshops per year, but changed that to once a year beginning in 2009 
• Over 14 chapter members who have earned their APRs