Background
MacKinnon, Cyrus Leland was born on August 16, 1916 in Eldorado, Kansas, United States. Son of Frederick Benjamin and Cecil Prescott (Lel) MacK.
MacKinnon, Cyrus Leland was born on August 16, 1916 in Eldorado, Kansas, United States. Son of Frederick Benjamin and Cecil Prescott (Lel) MacK.
Bachelor of Arts, Dartmouth College, 1938.
General trainee, Automatic Electric Company, Chicago, 1938-1941; personnel director, Sherwin-Williams Company, Chicago, 1941-1946; general manager, Franklin Association, Chicago, 1946-1955; managing director, Institute Newspaper Operations (name later changed to American Newspaper Pubs.Assn. Research Institute), Chicago, 1955-1959; sales manager, administrator, R.R. Donnelley & Sons, Chicago, 1959-1965; executive vice president chief Executive officer, Courier-Journal, 1965-1975; executive vice president chief Executive officer, Standard Gravure Corporation, We Have A Signal, Inc., 1965-1981; president, Courier-Journal & Louisville Times, 1975-1981. Board directors Columbia Books, Inc.
Vice Chairman, Board Of Directors Broadway Project, Kentucky Show. Chairman of the Board Action Now, Inc. Past board directors Falls Region Health Council, Housing Now, Inc., Better Government Association Illinois.
Trustee National Foundation/March of Dimes, 1977-1987. Member Industrial Rels. Association Chicago (president 1946), Southern Newspaper Publications Association, Casque and Gauntlet Society, Helium Club (Louisville), River Valley (Louisville), Psi Upsilon.
Married Helen Wigglesworth, February 25, 1939. Children: Stephen, Peter, Cecil, Anne.