Background
Maynard, Harry Edgar was born on April 2, 1918 in Akron, Ohio, United States. Son of Charles Edgar and Alice (Bicknell) Maynard.
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Harry Edgar Maynard
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Education
AB with honors, Colgate University, 1940. Postgraduate, Harvard University, 1954.
Career
Regional sales manager, Columbia Records, l940-42;
field director retail representative program, Life magazine, l945-46;
New York advertising manager international edits, Life magazine, l952-53;
United States advertising manager, Life magazine, l953-59;
public manager special publications, Time-Life International Edits., l967-68;
founder, president, General Semantics Foundation, Westport, Connecticut, l967-;
president, Institute General Semantics, Englewood, New Jersey, since 1989. Editor, public FM Guide, l967-70. Producer, moderator syndicated radio programs Men of Hi-Fi, ABC-FM, Sound Advice, ABC-FM, Station Way of New York City-FM, l967-79.
Consultant to numerous consumer electronics Companies. Instructor general semantics New York University, Columbia University, Cooper Union, Graduate School City College of New York.
Achievements
Membership
Board directors Armstrong Foundation, l967—. Captain United States Army Air Force, l942-45, European Theatre of Operations. Member Audio Engineering Society, Society Audio Consultant, International Society for General Semantics (board directors since 1950), Institute General Semantics (board directors since 1952, president 1989), American Marketing Association.
Connections
Married Patricia Geisler, February l3, l946 (divorced l959). Married Natalie Rhysna Hook, January 30, l960. Children: Melanie Dawn, Amie Anne.
