Background
Courson, Maxwell Taylor was born on September 8, 1936 in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. Son of Maxwell Taylor and Walton Lott (Hinson) Courson.
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Howard Earle Coffin was one of the first men in this country to build a workable automobile with his bare hands. He helped found three pioneer automobile companies and designed their cars for years. He helped the United States prepare for entry into World War I via an industrial inventory. He advised President Woodrow Wilson and headed the Aircraft Production Board during that war. He was one of the pioneers who founded the first airline service after the war. He developed paved roads, a golf course and a yacht club on St Simons Island, Georgia He named and developed Sea Island, Georgia, into an exclusive residential community and built the famed Cloister resort there. He was one of the first to experiment with using southern pine trees to manufacture paper. He encouraged the use of coarse cotton cloth in the construction of farm-to-market paved roads. For an autographed copy of Coffin's biography, contact the author at max@maxcourson.com
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Courson, Maxwell Taylor was born on September 8, 1936 in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. Son of Maxwell Taylor and Walton Lott (Hinson) Courson.
Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, University Georgia, 1958. Master of Arts in Journalism, University Georgia, 1959. Doctor of Philosophy in American Studies, University Hawaii, 1976.
News director WGGA Radio, Gainesville, Georgia, 1959-1960. Information specialist United States Army, Fort Benning, 1960-1962. Reporter United Press International, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1963-1964.
Public relations director South Georgia College, Douglas, 1964-1968. Assistant director university relations, graduate student University Hawaii, Honolulu, 1968-1973, 73-75. Alumni affairs director, director publications Georgia Southern College, Statesboro, 1975-1977, 77-79.
University relations director Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, 1980-1983. College fund representative Southern Educators Inc., Norcross, Georgia, 1983-1984. Associate professor Massachusetts communications Tennessee Wesleyan College, Athens, 1984-1990.
Associate professor communications arts University North Carolina, Pembroke, 1990-1997. Retired, 1997
Adjunct professor school mass communications University South Florida, Tampa, since 2001.
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Member Society Professional Journalists, North Carolina Collegiate Press Association, Antique Automobile Club American (Eastern Carolina chapter).
Married Mary Irene Brooks, July 3, 1965 (divorced August 1984). 1 child, Melinda Leigh. Married Naomi Monaray Robinson, August 4, 1985.