Star Tribune: Newspaper of the Twin Cities (Minneapolis, MN) - August 18, 2000
Deceased Name: Laurie Cavanaugh , retired executive of Star and Tribune, dies
Laurie L. Cavanaugh, retired director of public relations for the former Minneapolis Star and Minneapolis Tribune, died Monday of kidney failure at Martin Luther Manor in Bloomington. He was 84.
He started his newspaper career at the Minnesota Daily of the University of Minnesota, and also had written for the Literary Review. After college, he became an editor at the Northwestern Miller publishing company in Minneapolis.
Cavanaugh also worked for a weekly newspaper in Laguna Beach, Calif., that was owned by a cousin. In 1937, he worked as a stringer for the Santa Ana Journal. Then during World War II, he joined the Marine Corps and served in the Pacific.
After the war, he worked as a publicity director for two organizations before returning to Minnesota, where he started his advertising career at the Minneapolis Star and Minneapolis Tribune in 1951 as creator and producer of advertising sales presentations.
In 1954, he became supervisor of all advertising activities and then in 1960 he became promotion director, taking full charge of the sales-promotion and public-service departments.
He retired in 1976 as director of public relations.
"He loved his work," said his wife, Joyce. "He was good at it. He was good at the English language. He wrote some extraordinary ads."
His friend and former coworker, Peter Georgas of Minneapolis, said Cavanaugh was a master of the English language and that he learned a lot about the language from him.
In the 1950s and '60s, he worked under Cavanaugh's direction and said Cavanaugh was a "very creative" person. "When we worked, we worked," Georgas said. "We would work all night. We got a lot of laughs. We came up with some wonderful, wonderful stuff. They were creative. His mind was always active."
Cavanaugh was born in Portland, Ore., but his family moved to Minneapolis when he was a baby. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota.
He was past president of the International Newspaper Association and the Advertising Club of Minneapolis.
Besides his wife, survivors include a son, Peter of Woodbury; daughters Christina Van Cleve of Sutton, Alaska, and Julia Simmons of Pinewood, Minn., and four grandchildren.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Washburn-McReavy Edina Chapel, 50th St. and Hwy. 100, Edina.
Deceased Name: Laurie Cavanaugh , retired executive of Star and Tribune, dies
Laurie L. Cavanaugh, retired director of public relations for the former Minneapolis Star and Minneapolis Tribune, died Monday of kidney failure at Martin Luther Manor in Bloomington. He was 84.
He started his newspaper career at the Minnesota Daily of the University of Minnesota, and also had written for the Literary Review. After college, he became an editor at the Northwestern Miller publishing company in Minneapolis.
Cavanaugh also worked for a weekly newspaper in Laguna Beach, Calif., that was owned by a cousin. In 1937, he worked as a stringer for the Santa Ana Journal. Then during World War II, he joined the Marine Corps and served in the Pacific.
After the war, he worked as a publicity director for two organizations before returning to Minnesota, where he started his advertising career at the Minneapolis Star and Minneapolis Tribune in 1951 as creator and producer of advertising sales presentations.
In 1954, he became supervisor of all advertising activities and then in 1960 he became promotion director, taking full charge of the sales-promotion and public-service departments.
He retired in 1976 as director of public relations.
"He loved his work," said his wife, Joyce. "He was good at it. He was good at the English language. He wrote some extraordinary ads."
His friend and former coworker, Peter Georgas of Minneapolis, said Cavanaugh was a master of the English language and that he learned a lot about the language from him.
In the 1950s and '60s, he worked under Cavanaugh's direction and said Cavanaugh was a "very creative" person. "When we worked, we worked," Georgas said. "We would work all night. We got a lot of laughs. We came up with some wonderful, wonderful stuff. They were creative. His mind was always active."
Cavanaugh was born in Portland, Ore., but his family moved to Minneapolis when he was a baby. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota.
He was past president of the International Newspaper Association and the Advertising Club of Minneapolis.
Besides his wife, survivors include a son, Peter of Woodbury; daughters Christina Van Cleve of Sutton, Alaska, and Julia Simmons of Pinewood, Minn., and four grandchildren.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Washburn-McReavy Edina Chapel, 50th St. and Hwy. 100, Edina.
Star Tribune: Newspaper of the Twin Cities (Minneapolis, MN) - August 18, 2000
Deceased Name: Laurie Cavanaugh , retired executive of Star and Tribune, dies
Laurie L. Cavanaugh, retired director of public relations for the former Minneapolis Star and Minneapolis Tribune, died Monday of kidney failure at Martin Luther Manor in Bloomington. He was 84.
He started his newspaper career at the Minnesota Daily of the University of Minnesota, and also had written for the Literary Review. After college, he became an editor at the Northwestern Miller publishing company in Minneapolis.
Cavanaugh also worked for a weekly newspaper in Laguna Beach, Calif., that was owned by a cousin. In 1937, he worked as a stringer for the Santa Ana Journal. Then during World War II, he joined the Marine Corps and served in the Pacific.
After the war, he worked as a publicity director for two organizations before returning to Minnesota, where he started his advertising career at the Minneapolis Star and Minneapolis Tribune in 1951 as creator and producer of advertising sales presentations.
In 1954, he became supervisor of all advertising activities and then in 1960 he became promotion director, taking full charge of the sales-promotion and public-service departments.
He retired in 1976 as director of public relations.
"He loved his work," said his wife, Joyce. "He was good at it. He was good at the English language. He wrote some extraordinary ads."
His friend and former coworker, Peter Georgas of Minneapolis, said Cavanaugh was a master of the English language and that he learned a lot about the language from him.
In the 1950s and '60s, he worked under Cavanaugh's direction and said Cavanaugh was a "very creative" person. "When we worked, we worked," Georgas said. "We would work all night. We got a lot of laughs. We came up with some wonderful, wonderful stuff. They were creative. His mind was always active."
Cavanaugh was born in Portland, Ore., but his family moved to Minneapolis when he was a baby. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota.
He was past president of the International Newspaper Association and the Advertising Club of Minneapolis.
Besides his wife, survivors include a son, Peter of Woodbury; daughters Christina Van Cleve of Sutton, Alaska, and Julia Simmons of Pinewood, Minn., and four grandchildren.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Washburn-McReavy Edina Chapel, 50th St. and Hwy. 100, Edina.
Deceased Name: Laurie Cavanaugh , retired executive of Star and Tribune, dies
Laurie L. Cavanaugh, retired director of public relations for the former Minneapolis Star and Minneapolis Tribune, died Monday of kidney failure at Martin Luther Manor in Bloomington. He was 84.
He started his newspaper career at the Minnesota Daily of the University of Minnesota, and also had written for the Literary Review. After college, he became an editor at the Northwestern Miller publishing company in Minneapolis.
Cavanaugh also worked for a weekly newspaper in Laguna Beach, Calif., that was owned by a cousin. In 1937, he worked as a stringer for the Santa Ana Journal. Then during World War II, he joined the Marine Corps and served in the Pacific.
After the war, he worked as a publicity director for two organizations before returning to Minnesota, where he started his advertising career at the Minneapolis Star and Minneapolis Tribune in 1951 as creator and producer of advertising sales presentations.
In 1954, he became supervisor of all advertising activities and then in 1960 he became promotion director, taking full charge of the sales-promotion and public-service departments.
He retired in 1976 as director of public relations.
"He loved his work," said his wife, Joyce. "He was good at it. He was good at the English language. He wrote some extraordinary ads."
His friend and former coworker, Peter Georgas of Minneapolis, said Cavanaugh was a master of the English language and that he learned a lot about the language from him.
In the 1950s and '60s, he worked under Cavanaugh's direction and said Cavanaugh was a "very creative" person. "When we worked, we worked," Georgas said. "We would work all night. We got a lot of laughs. We came up with some wonderful, wonderful stuff. They were creative. His mind was always active."
Cavanaugh was born in Portland, Ore., but his family moved to Minneapolis when he was a baby. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota.
He was past president of the International Newspaper Association and the Advertising Club of Minneapolis.
Besides his wife, survivors include a son, Peter of Woodbury; daughters Christina Van Cleve of Sutton, Alaska, and Julia Simmons of Pinewood, Minn., and four grandchildren.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Washburn-McReavy Edina Chapel, 50th St. and Hwy. 100, Edina.
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