Background
Plotkin, Helen Ann was born on April 30, 1955 in Mena, Arkansas, United States. Daughter of Joe and Evelyn Sheffield.
Plotkin, Helen Ann was born on April 30, 1955 in Mena, Arkansas, United States. Daughter of Joe and Evelyn Sheffield.
Bachelor, Henderson State University, 1976.
Reporter/lifestyle editor, The News-Times, El Dorado, Arkansas, 1976-1978; news editor, Malvern Daily Record, Malvern, Arkansas, 1978-1979; city hall reporter, regional editor, Texarkana Gazette, Texarkana, Texas, 1979; writer, editor, columnist, News Star World, Monroe, Louisiana, 1979-1989; managing editor, University Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1989-1995; director college relations, spokesman, Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas, since 1995. Writer daily newspaper column, 1982-1989.
Member Council for Advancement & Support of Education (district IV contest chair 1995-1996, track chair, 1994-1995, scholarship chair 1998-1999), Arkansas PressWomen (1st vice president 1996, president 1998), National Federation of Press Women.
Married Richard Samuel Plotkin, November 15, 1981.