Background
Wilkin, Eugene Welch was born on May 14, 1923 in North Attleborough, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Laurence Welch and Ruth Marion (Totten) Wilkin.
Wilkin, Eugene Welch was born on May 14, 1923 in North Attleborough, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Laurence Welch and Ruth Marion (Totten) Wilkin.
Bachelor of Arts, Dartmouth College, 1948; postgraduate, Graduate School Business Administration, Harvard, July 1963.
Surety representative, Aetna Casualty Insurance Company, Boston, Providence, 1949-1950; assistant to president, graphic arts salesman, J.C. Hall Company, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 1950-1951; copywriter, T. Robley Loutit Advertising Agency, Providence, 1951-1952; sales representative, local sales manager, WPRO, Providence, 1952; sales manager, WPRO-Am-television, 1953; national sales manager television, WPRO-Am-television, 1955-1961; general manager, WGAN-television, Portland, Maine., 1961-1963; vice-president, director, Guy Gannett Broadcasting Services, Portland, 1963-1968; director corporate development, Guy Gannett Broadcasting Services, 1966-1968; general manager, King Broadcasting Company, Spokane, 1968-1973; president, Wilkin Broadcast Cons., Inc., 1974-1990; with, Wilkin Communications, since 1990.
Chairman for Maine Radio Free Europe Fund, 1963-1965. President Northeast Hearing and Speech Center, Portland, 1965-1968. Member Governor's Committee on Voluntary Programs, 1973-1975.
Chairman public assistance committee, citizens advisory board Washington Department Social/Health Services. Board directors, chairman 1973 sustaining fund drive Spokane Symphony Society. Member development committee Whitworth College.
Ex-officio member development committee Mental Health Center. Chairman public relations committee United Fund. Vice chairman public relations committee Retail Trade Board.
Member American Committee on E.W. Accord/Communications sub committee. Secretary ad hoc coalition Spokane County Homeowners Associations. President Los Verdes Homeowners Association, 1993.
Volunteer communications United Way San Luis Obispo, 1993-1994. President San Luis Obispo Affiliate National Council Drug & Alcohol Abuse. Senior warden St. Paul's Anglican Church.
; chair media committee San Luis Obispo County Master Plan to Reduce Drug & Alcohol Abuse. Member International Executive Service Corps. Volunteer Executive (Eastern Europe).
Senior warden St. Alban's Anglican Church, since 1996. Board directors Friends of the Lakewood (Washington) Library., since 1996. Director public relations Diocese of the West, Anglican Church American, since 1995.
Member Advertising Federation American (governor 1960, board directors 1966-1967), San Juan Chamber of Commerce, National Association Broadcasters, National Association television Program Executives, Spokane and Inland Empire Dartmouth Alumni Association (president 1970-1973), Orange County (California) Dartmouth Alumni Association (president 1979-1982, secretary 1982-1985), Delta Upsilon (life).
Married Anita Drake, September 10, 1949. Children: Judith Louise, Lawrence Welch 2d, Diana Lewis, William Alexander.