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PRSSA National Committee Members

A Brief History | The First Chapters | National Committees


Natalie Neczypor

  • 2003-2004 Immediate Past President
  • 2002-2003 National President
  • 2001-2002 Vice President of Regional Activities

Elected to the National Committee, Natalie, Vice President of Regional Activities, served as Webmaster in the Anthony J. Fuliginiti Chapter of PRSSA at Rowan University. In her chapter she had numerous responsibilities including CO-chairing our National Organ Donor Awareness Campaign and creating our first website.

Natalie strives to spread the regional activity experience throughout the country. She enforces the value regional activities can offer hosts and those that attend, and increases communication between regional activity host chapters and members of PRSSA. Natalie promotes excitement into the regional activity experience.

While in office Natalie, promoted Regional Activities as a brand name encouraging chapters to bid, attend and gain recognition from the Regional Activities experience. She included host chapters on list serve contacted chapters every two weeks to discuss progress, helped bring chapters from surrounding areas to the activities providing contact information to the coordinators, monitored attendance of activities and the events taking place through forms completed by each National Committee member attending the event, and published activity information on the website and in Connecting.

Natalie also sent a National Committee member to each activity to present an award to the Regional Activity Coordinator. At each activity, she had pictures taken, archived and published on the website. The Regional Activities Handbook was completely redone to reflect the new tone of hosting as a positive one rather than extra work for PRSSA chapters. Included in the handbook was a sample bid demonstrating how a completed bid would look. Natalie served PRSSA as the National President for 2002-2003, elected at the 2002 National Assembly in San Diego, CA. She now serves as the Immediate Past President.


Joan-Patricia O'Connor, a graduate student at the University of Southern California and one of the two "token" students on PRSA's Committee on Student Organization, took the initiative. In 1973, she presented to the PRSA Board of Directors and Assembly a resolution calling for PRSSA to be managed by students. The Assembly and Board, led by Betsy Plank, 1973 president of PRSA, gave their formal approval during the PRSA Annual Conference in November in Honolulu.


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