Page Center Co-Founder Left His Mark on Our Telephones

Although they are separate organizations, there is a lot of cross-pollination between the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication and the similarly named Arthur W. Page Society.

The Page Center, of course, is a research unit of the College of Communications at Penn State University. The Page Society is the premier professional association for senior corporate communications executives.

Roger Bolton, who is president of the Page Society, is also on the Advisory Board of the Page Center. Recently, he wrote a blog post for the Page Society about the late Jack Koten, who was a co-founder of the Page Center in 2004 as well as first president of the Page Society. It seems that Jack is likely the person responsible for putting the * and # symbols on our telephone keypads. Read Roger’s post here.