{"id":4215,"date":"2010-07-29T07:36:59","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T11:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/?p=4215"},"modified":"2026-07-13T21:44:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T01:44:35","slug":"umes-names-new-public-relations-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/umes-names-new-public-relations-director\/","title":{"rendered":"UMES Names New Public Relations Director"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"305\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/219\/2021\/09\/Bill_Robinson1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/219\/2021\/09\/Bill_Robinson1.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/219\/2021\/09\/Bill_Robinson1-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thursday, July 29, 2010<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PRINCESS ANNE, MD &#8211; Bill Robinson has joined the staff of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore as director of public relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robinson is a product of Wicomico County public schools and a 1978 graduate of the University of Maryland College Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He worked three decades as a reporter for The (Cambridge) Banner, The (Salisbury) Daily Times and most recently South Carolina&#8217;s capital city newspaper, where he concentrated on education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the 1990s, Robinson reported on the debate over integration of women into South Carolina&#8217;s public military college. During the past decade, his focus was on school accountability, including coverage of a decade-old lawsuit between poor school districts and state government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robinson returned to Delmarva in 2008 to work for the McCready Foundation, which operates a community hospital and nursing home in Crisfield. In addition to promoting McCready&#8217;s health-care services and serving as community liaison, he also managed the foundation&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was a member of the Crisfield Area Chamber of Commerce&#8217;s board and currently serves as vice chairman of the lower Eastern Shore&#8217;s board for the Blood of Bank of Delmarva and the (Salisbury) City Park Committee.<br><br>Robinson lives in Salisbury with his wife, Jane Langrall Robinson, an English-language arts teacher at Delmar Middle School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>###<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Candice Evans, UMES Office of Public Relations, (410) 651-6669,&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:caevans1@umes.edu\">caevans1@umes.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gail Stephens, assistant director, UMES Office of Public Relations, (410) 651-7580,&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:gcstephens@umes.edu\">gcstephens@umes.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, July 29, 2010 PRINCESS ANNE, MD &#8211; Bill Robinson has joined the staff of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore as director of public relations. Robinson is a product of Wicomico County public schools and a 1978 graduate of the University of Maryland College Park. He worked three decades as a reporter for The&#8230;<span class=\"cpschool-read-more-link-holder\"><a class=\"btn btn-basic cpschool-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/umes-names-new-public-relations-director\/\">Read more <span class=\"sr-only\">UMES Names New Public Relations Director<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-4215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4215"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=4215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}