It is with heavy hearts that we announce the recent passing of Past APCO International President Jack Keating, who passed away on Friday, Feb. 15, from complications relating to a broken hip.
Keating retired from a career in the Coast Guard to take an open position as the communications director for the City of West Covina (Calif.) Communications Department. He joined APCO on Feb. 8, 1977. Before his election to the APCO International Board of Officers in 1995, Keating was very active in CPRA (APCO’s Southern California Chapter) for many years. He was president of CPRA in 1991. He served as conference chair for the Western States Regional Conference held in Anaheim in 1994. And he was a member of the APCO Regional Conference Manual Review Task Force and served as chair of the Activities and Membership Committee from 1988–1991.
Keating served a term as the association’s president from 1998–1999 and was honored with Life Membership at the APCO International Conference & Expo in 1999.
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