Ralph W. Crosby, chairman and CEO of Crosby Marketing Communications, has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the University of Maryland at College Park.
The Trustees govern the College Park campus’ investment and distribution of private funds, serve as advocates, assist and advise the University’s president, and help increase the level of philanthropic support for the University.
Mr. Crosby also serves on the Board of Visitors of the University’s College of Journalism, from which he graduated in 1956. A long-time supporter of the College, he has also endowed an annual scholarship for a journalism student.
Mr. Crosby founded Crosby Marketing in Annapolis, his hometown, in 1973, following a successful journalism stint as a newspaper and magazine editor. Today, Crosby Marketing has a 50-person staff in its Annapolis headquarters and Washington, D.C. office. The agency provides integrated advertising, public relations, direct response, and interactive services to regional and national market leaders in a variety of industries.
