Background
Host, W. James was born in 1959 in Kane, Pennsylvania Bachelor of Arts, Univercity Kentucky, Baseball player.
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W. James Host
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Education
Sports announcer, Lexington, Kentucky. With Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati, to 1964. Builder, Realtor, insurance agent, Lexington, 1964-1967.
Commissioner Kentucky Department Public Information, Lexington, 1967-1970, commissioner Department.Parks, 1970.
Candidate for lieutenant governor Kentucky. Chief Executive Officer Host Communications, Incorporated., Lexington, to present.
Chairman Kentucky Arthritis Campaign, 1969. Vice-chairman Fayette County Heart Drive.
Past board directors Florence Crittenden Home, United Cerebral Palsy of Kentucky, Lexington Deaf-Oral School.
Past president Blue Grass council Boy Scouts American, now member of advisory board directors. Past member United States Travel Service Travel Advisory Board. Past vice president Lincoln Heritage Trail Foundation.
Achievements
Membership
Member National Tour Association (executive vice president), Travel Industry Association American (travel policy council, board directors), Kentucky Junior Chamber of Commerce, Kentucky Chamber of Commerce (board directors), Greater Lexington Area Chamber of Commerce (past chairman), Public Relations Society American, National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association, Civil War Round Table, Lexington Advertising. Club,; Clubs: National Press, Lexington Country, Lafayette, Kentucky Athletic. Lodge: Rotary (president Lexington 1979-1980, chairman endowment).
