March 22, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — Ken Owen, executive director of media relations at DePauw and 1982
graduate of the University, is a member of the board of directors
of the Indianapolis Public Relations Society, notes the Indianapolis Star. Formed in 1949, IPRS is a limited
membership organization comprised of senior level public relations
personnel.
Owen was elected to the board in 2008 and is serving a four year term.
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Ken Owen returned to DePauw in 2001 after two decades in TV news. Along his responsibilities to raise the University's external visibility, he coordinates the Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture Series and the annual Monon Bell
telecast and has created "Monon Memories" of every battle between
DePauw and Wabash College for the Monon Bell since 1893. The video
vignettes were the subject of features in the Chronicle of Higher Education and during HDNet's telecast of the 115th Monon Bell Classic
in November 2008. A communication major and Rector Scholar at DePauw, Owen has also taught journalism at Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis.