Tompkins County Public Library

Thursday, October 21, 2010

LIBRARY, FOUNDATION TO HOST ROY H. PARK, JR.

The Tompkins County Public Library and the Tompkins County Public Library Foundation will host Roy H. Park, Jr. for a discussion of his fascinating book “Sons in the Shadow: Surviving the Family Business as an SOB (Son of the Boss),” Thursday, October 21 at 7:00 PM in the BorgWarner Community Room.

A graduate of Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Park is the president and CEO of Park Outdoor Advertising of New York, Inc. and president and chairman of Triad Foundation, Inc. The son of heralded media executive and entrepreneur Roy H. Park, Park, Jr. chronicles the 17 years he spent working for his father with candor and insight in “Sons in the Shadow.”

Park is a trustee emeritus and presidential councillor of Cornell University and a member of the Johnson School’s Advisory Council. He is a member of the Board of Advisors of the University of North Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Chapel Hill and co-chairman and director of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Inc. on the Cornell Campus.

This program is free and open to the public.

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