Background
Hackenberg, Barbara Jean Collar was born on April 15, 1927 in Venango County, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Guy Lamont and Marion Leona (Kingsley) Collar.
advertising and public relations executive
Hackenberg, Barbara Jean Collar was born on April 15, 1927 in Venango County, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Guy Lamont and Marion Leona (Kingsley) Collar.
Bachelor, Grove City College, Pennsylvania, 1948. ML, University Pittsburgh, 1949.
Advertising director, The Halle Brothers Company, Erie, Pennsylvania, 1950-1952; advertising and sales promotion director Pennsylvania division, The Halle Brothers Company, Erie, Pennsylvania, 1952-1954; executive director, Wyomissing (Pennsylvania) Institute Fine Arts, 1970-1974; director and community liason, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1976-1978; selling supervisor, Pomeroy's Children's Department, Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, 1981-1983; public relations account executive, Wentworth Associations, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1983-1984; executive director, World Affairs Council, Reading, 1987-1997; owner, The WRITE Place, Reading, 1979-1997; retired, The WRITE Place, Reading, 1997.
Vice president Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) Foreign Policy Association, 1964-1967. Various fund-raising activities, 1954-1970. Public rels.chmn. Erie World Affairs Center, 1957-1960.
Appointed to Parks and Recreation Board, Township of Cumru, since 1998. Member international committee Young Men’s Christian Association, Berks County, Pennsylvania, since 1999. Member Women in Communications, Inc.
(public relations chairman central Pennsylvania chapter, 1984-1987, secretary central Pennsylvania chapter, 1986-1987).
Married George Richardson, June 13, 1953. Children: Kurt Edward, Kim Ellen, Caroline Kingsley.