ALLAN W. GARSKE
3101 Guilford Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21218-3420
agarske@hotmail.com Weblog: allan366.tripod.com/MyResume/
Phone: 4436914479
INTERNET & COMPUTER
Familiar with Macintosh computer. Using Internet, created Email list of press, politicians and community groups to receive news releases and weblog opinion pieces.
PUBLIC RELATIONS
Establish positive ongoing relationships with press. Anticipate and function effectively in "crisis" situations. Press contacts have included U.S. News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal, NBC Network News, New York Daily News, Baltimore Sun, Washington Post.
Assisted in creating educational programs for the Maryland General Assembly, Baltimore publics.
As public relations director for Baltimore City Department of Social Services produced A Child Is Waiting TV program to recruit foster care and adoptive homes. Arranged for and produced radio program on city social services.
As state-level public relations director for the Maryland Association for Mental Health counseled Maryland county and city mental health association chapters on publicity and fund raising.
PRINT MEDIA
Develop design and content for annual reports, brochures, magazines and newsletters, advertising supported when appropriate. Supervise writers, photographers, designers, printers, advertising staff. As an entrepreneur published The Charles Street Paper, advertising supported monthly tabloid size arts paper with 15,000 free circulation in Baltimore city.
In order to strengthen Baltimore's Charles Village community, as volunteer changed The Charles Villager newsletter into tabloid size advertising supported neighborhood newspaper with 5,000 circulation.
Editor for trade magazines Airport/Services Management, International Projectionist, Greater Amusements and TV Times, a television listing magazine similar in format to small TV Guide
EMPLOYMENT
Baltimore City Department of Social Services
Maryland Association for Mental Health
Brooklyn Tuberculosis & Health Association
Minnesota State Department of Business Development
EDUCATION
Journalism BA, Radio-Television Specialty, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Associate BA, Devils Lake Junior College, Devils Lake, North Dakota
MILITARY
US Air Force Weather Observer stationed in England near London.
