Roy H. Park, Jr., after graduating from The Lawrenceville School in 1956 and earning a BA in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1961 and an MBA from the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University in 1963, joined J. Walter Thompson Co. After spending the next seven years with the world’s largest advertising agency in creative, research, management and account positions in New York City and Miami, in 1970 he joined Kincaid Advertising, a subsidiary of First Union (now Wells Fargo) in Charlotte, North Carolina, as Vice President Marketing and Account Management.

 

Beginning in 1971 for the next 17 years he worked for his father’s multi-media empire as GM, VP, and CEO, managing the outdoor advertising companies and ad agency out of Ithaca, NY. He also served as Vice President Advertising and Promotion for Park Broadcasting, Inc. and was elected to the Board of Directors of Park Communications, Inc. after his father’s death in 1993. Park is currently President and Chairman of Park Outdoor Advertising of New York, Inc. and was a Trustee and a First Vice President of the Park Foundation, Inc. for eight years before becoming President and Chairman of Triad Foundation, Inc. in 2003. 

 

A Trustee of Cornell University from 1999-2007, Park is now an Emeritus Trustee and a Presidential Councillor, the highest honor its Board of Trustees can bestow. He has been a member of the Advisory Council of the Cornell Johnson School of Graduate Management since 1996, and was inducted into its Hall of fame in 2004. In 2017, he was elected by the Cornell Board of Trustees as a founding member of the Leadership Council of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, the third largest business school in the world.

 

Also serving as a member of the Board of Advisors of the University of North Carolina’s School of Journalism from 1994 to 2020, Park was inducted into its North Carolina Advertising Hall of fame in 2011. In 2005 he received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of North Carolina, and in 2015 was chosen to receive the William Richardson Davie Award, the highest honor given by the University of North Carolina Board of Trustees. In 2017 he was inducted into the North Carolina Media and Journalism Hall of Fame and was awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, one of the most prestigious awards conferred by the Governor of North Carolina to individual who have provided exemplary service to their community and state.

 

Park has also served as a Vice Chairman and member of the Board of Directors of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Inc. located on the Cornell Campus since 1995, and is a member of Epsilon of New York Chapter of the Sigma Phi Society.

 

In addition to this book, Park has published dozens of poems and articles in North Carolina newspapers, features in national magazines and has written a number of songs including “Midnight Summer Party,” “Dream Reaper,” and “I’ll Tell It Once More.”