Background
Higgins, Patricia Ann was born on June 27, 1951 in Woodbury, New Jersey, United States. Daughter of John David and Louise Helen (Brooks) Higgins.
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Patricia Ann Higgins
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Bachelor of Science in Public Communications, Syracuse University, 1973.
Career
Newspaper reporter, Times Herald-Record, Middletown, New York, 1973-1974; advertising copywriter, Advertising Division, Inc., Chicago, 1974-1975; freelance journalist, Advertising Division, Inc., Chicago, 1975-1977, 79-83; newspaper reporter Suburban Trib, Chicago Tribune, 1977-1979; director communications, The Contemporary Quilt, Chicago, 1980-1983; senior account supervisor, Hill and Knowlton, Inc., Chicago, 1984-1987; senior director corporation communications, World Book, Inc., Chicago, 1987-1992; executive vice president, Marcy Monyek & Associations, Chicago, since 1992. Lecturer in field.
Achievements
Membership
Member Irish Children's Fund, Downers Grove, Illinois, 1982. Sponsor Save the Children, Connecticut, since 1983. Member of advisory board Reflections progressive National Parent-Teachers Association, Chicago, 1988-1991.
Board directors United States Academy Decathlon, Los Angeles, 1988-1989. Member Direct Selling Association (communications committee 1989-1992), Society Professional Journalists, Women in Communications (board directors Chicago chapter 1990-1991), Syracuse University Newhouse School Alumni Association, Chicago Headline Club, Chicago Syracuse University Alumni Club.
Connections
1 child, Jesse.
