Moore School of Business - Martha Thomas receives award at conference in England

Martha Wetterhall Thomas, director of the Moore School’s Center for Business Communication (CBC), received the Academic Highly Commended Paper Award at last month’s Conference on Corporate Communication 2007 held at Wroxton College in Wroxton, England.

Thomas’s paper, entitled "Corporate Communication in the Late Middle Ages: Sampson of Oxford and the Method of Letter-Writing," describes Thomas Sampson as a 14th century educational entrepreneur who played an essential role in preparing the business communicators of his day.

The conference, held June 1-4, attracted scholars and practitioners from 17 countries to exchange information and explore the influence of globalization on the corporate communication profession.

Thomas has been director of Moore’s CBC since 1997. The CBC was one of the first facilities of its kind in business education and serves as a model for other business schools in the United States and abroad.

Prior to her academic career, Thomas worked in the marketing communications field in New York City, first as a copywriter at agencies such as Grey Advertising, BBDO, and McCaffrey and McCall, and then as president of Thomas & Thomas, an agency she co-founded with her husband, a marketing executive.

Jan Collins
July 2007

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Martha Thomas Receives Award at Conference in England