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< B i OGPJ~PIII CAL I~OTES WILLIA~I ELOEPFER, JR. SENIOR VICE PRESIDENY - PUBLIC RELATIONS Willi~ Kloepfer, Jr., 49, a senior vice president of The Institute, has been its public relations director since 1967. During the eight previous years, he held a s!mJlar post with the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association in Washington, a trade mssociation cf more than i00 companies who manufacture prescription drugs. Mr. Kloepfer was born and educated in Illinois, receiving a bachelor of science degree in political science from North- western University in 1949, following four years of service in the U. S. Army during the second World War. He "broke in" to the newspaper business as a reporter for a small daily newspaper in east Texas, and within a year was invited to join the editorial staff of the Washington Times-Herald, later absorbed by the Washington Post. His a desk in the Senate press gallery. At the out~et of the 1952 Presidential c~unpaign, Mr. Kloepfer joined the publicity staff o[ the Republican National Committee, remaining in the post until 1955. During the 1954 Congressional and gubernatorial ca/~ip~igns, he served as press secretary for Vice President Nixon throughout the latter's national campaign tour. There followed two years as administrmtive assistant to U. S. Rep. Laurence Curtis of Boston, and late in 1956 Mr. Kloepfer was appointed director of public information and Congressional liaison for the U. S. Civil Aeronautics Board• After nearly a quarter-century in the nation's capital, Mr. Wloepfer has developed and maintains a wide acquaintence in political, journalistic, governmental and husiness circles there. &n

.... C Mr. Willi~m Kloepfer, Jr. He is a member of the National Press Club, the National Association of Science Writers and the Public Relations Society of America. His biography appears in Who's Who in the South and Southwest. Mr. and Mrs. K!oepfer, the former Nancy Henningcr of Butler, Pennsylvania, are the parents of two daughters. The family lives in Bethesda, Maryland.