Tom Hagley Sr.
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Tom is enjoying retirement and still looking for opportunities to help others succeed in their work and their lives. He and his wife, Peggy, have two Cotons, Woodruff and Clouseau, pets they love as comforting companions. The Hagleys like reading and the peaceful solitude of living on the side of Livingston Mountain overlooking Vancouver, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. Tom has published five books: 
Dreams To Reality, memoirs of how an industry was used to create a rewarding career in public relations. It is written to inspire individuals to lift their sights from simply doing jobs to creating rewarding careers. For free copy. 
“Public Relations Playbook” is a gold mine of insights. Most books like this contain topics, general areas for study. The Playbook teaches insights from experiences that actually happened. It equips students with knowledge that colleagues have yet to acquire. It fills the mind with ready-to-apply field tested actions advancing a student’s thinking to a level of experience far above others in class and on the job. The “Public Relations Playbook” gives students confidence needed to feel they are adequately equipped to practice public relations. For example: Do you know the correct journalism style for 126 entries commonly used in PR? Can you pass a grammar quiz of usage in PR? Are you ready to respond to a message from a journalist and to cultivate the relationship? Do you know how to improve your PR writing in 16 controllable ways? Do you know how to get what you want from internships? What do you expect to get as a “PR major?” The “Public Relations Playbook” shows students how to prepare for job searches. For example: Do you know how to get superlative recommendation letters? What about interview questions to prepare for, such as: What are four major weaknesses in the PR profession? What is PR? Will I find spelling and grammatical errors in your portfolio? Why do job portfolios self-deflate before interviewers? The “Public Relations Playbook” shows students what it means to have a business perspective. For example, Why are most PR plans rejected? What is a PR budget? What is the impact of jargon on the profession? What is the difference between a goal, an objective, a strategy, a tactic? What can you do to support the work of an executive? What’s most important for a PR firm to do in the first client meeting? 
Deliverance from an Angry Sea, an historical account brought to life with fictionalized dialogue of the travails of Antony Thacher, an ancestor on his wife’s side of the family, whose unrelenting pursuit of religious freedom challenged his strength of will to flee England in the Great Puritan Migration of 1635, sail the seas through one of New England’s most devastating hurricanes, fight for his life against monstrous waves pounding his vessel to pieces, and live to describe the harrowing experience. Currently, Tom is building a model wooden ship similar to the one wrecked as described in his book, "Deliverance From An Angry Sea. 
Writing Winning Proposals: Public Relations Cases, specific instruction for writing public relations plans with great potential for approval. Endorsements: Writing Winning Proposals - ENDORSEMENTS 
Yaquina Bay Light Ghost Story is Tom's first try at writing fiction. Unlike traditional stories, the ghosts appear—well, you'll see. The fiction begins here: What is it that possesses people to read and write about ghosts? When I visited Yaquina Light, I left feeling connected with more than its history. I can’t very well describe it. Something left with me and made me write this story. I know that ghost stories are just stories. Aren't they? Closing a book on a ghost story leaves the characters inside waiting to haunt the next reader. Doesn't it? How foolish it would be to think that ghosts exist and that a person could somehow wander into their presence and walk away with more in mind than a visit. Fragments of my life experiences are reflected in this short work of fiction. Would you believe a movement all its own shaped them into this tale of love, agony, fear and mystery? |
Tom Hagley Sr. has had a successful career as an educator, practitioner and author that began more than 50 years ago at Ohio University with a B.S.J. degree in 1964 and M.S.J. awarded in 1968. He was a senior instructor of public relations, retired with 10 years at the University of Oregon, where he received with a stipend of $2,000, the Jonathan Marshall Award in 2007 for innovative teaching in journalism and communication. An annual award in his name was established in 2020 at Washington State University for the best student team in Integrated Strategic Communication.
Tom was director of public and investor relations for Alumax, Inc., for 10 years; a consultant, four years; vice president and manager, Portland, Oregon, office of Hill & Knowlton Strategies, one of the world’s leading global communications coms, two years; Northwest public relations manager for Alcoa, 13 years; publications editor for Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., 18 months; and reporter for Cleveland’s metropolitan newspaper, The Plain Dealer.
His wife, Peggy, is a high school sweetheart, also an educator, with a B.S. degree, Summa Cum Laude, 1966, from Kansas State University. Together, in 1964, Tom and Peggy took off as free spirits, pursued success in six states, had three wonderful children, traveled extensively, and created memories they dearly cherish today that include four grandchildren.
Tom was director of public and investor relations for Alumax, Inc., for 10 years; a consultant, four years; vice president and manager, Portland, Oregon, office of Hill & Knowlton Strategies, one of the world’s leading global communications coms, two years; Northwest public relations manager for Alcoa, 13 years; publications editor for Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., 18 months; and reporter for Cleveland’s metropolitan newspaper, The Plain Dealer.
His wife, Peggy, is a high school sweetheart, also an educator, with a B.S. degree, Summa Cum Laude, 1966, from Kansas State University. Together, in 1964, Tom and Peggy took off as free spirits, pursued success in six states, had three wonderful children, traveled extensively, and created memories they dearly cherish today that include four grandchildren.
