Bio: Lawson, Mary Ann (PR Sacred Heart - 1973)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Lawson, Turczyn

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 10/18/1973

Lawson, Mary Ann (PR Sacred Heart - 1973)

Mary Ann (Turczyn) Lawson, a native of Neillsville and graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire journalism department, has accepted a position of public relations manager for Sacred Heart Hospital at Eau Claire.

Following her graduation from the university, Mrs. Lawson worked on the women’s pages of the Fond du Lac Daily newspaper. During the summer between her junior and senior years, she was employed by The Clark County Press and had charge of a special supplement published in connection with the opening of the Neillsville Foundry, Inc., plant here.

Mrs. Lawson had her newspaper start while a student at Neillsville High School. She wrote a teen-age column for The Press and did other writing.

In her new position she will be in charge of the hospital’s publication, the ‘Echo;’ and will handle other communications between the hospital and the public.

She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Turczyn of Rt. 2 Neillsville.