McDaniel College elects two Bethesda residents as new members to the Board of Trustees

McDaniel College has named two Bethesda, Md., residents as new members to its board of trustees. Both are also former parent visitors to the McDaniel Board of Trustees.

Eric Dezenhall is a crisis management expert and co-founder of Washington, D.C.-based Dezenhall Resources, a high-stakes communications consultancy firm. His clients include Fortune 500 companies and other institutions, as well as public figures that find themselves embroiled in public relations disasters. He is also a frequent media commentator and the author of nine fiction and nonfiction books, including “Glass Jaw: A Manifesto for Defending Fragile Reputations in an Age of Instant Scandal” published in October 2014. He is also on the faculty of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. Called “The Pit Bull of Public Relations” and named one of Business Insider’s “25 Most Influential PR People,” Dezenhall served in the communications office of The White House during the Reagan presidency and worked at Porter Novelli, one of the nation’s largest communications firms. He graduated from Dartmouth College, where he studied political science and the news media. His daughter, Eliza, graduated from McDaniel in May 2015.

Robert “Robin” Salomon, III is president of Skyline, LLC, a property developer offering affordable housing in New York City and in six states. Salomon has served as executive assistant to former U.S. Senator Al D’Amato of New York and worked as a government relations adviser with a focus on affordable housing issues before Congress and the administration. As the first president of the Siena School Foundation, Salomon volunteered to build support to fund scholarships for families whose children with language-based learning disabilities could benefit from the educational opportunities provided by this private high school in Silver Spring, Md. He also volunteers as a board member and treasurer for Glen Echo Park Partnership for the Arts and Culture and is a board member of the Pyramid Atlantic, a Maryland-based nonprofit that empowers artists and educates youth in the process of papermaking, printmaking, book arts and digital media. Salomon earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Kenyon College. His son, Ryan, is a senior at McDaniel.

For more information about McDaniel College, visit www.mcdaniel.edu.

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McDaniel College, recognized nationally among “40 Colleges that Change Lives” and U.S. News top-tier liberal arts colleges, is a four-year private college of the liberal arts and sciences offering more than 70 undergraduate programs of study, including dual and student-designed majors, plus 25 highly regarded graduate programs. Its hallmark faculty-student collaborations in research, teaching and mentoring plus hundreds of leadership and service opportunities enrich a lively learning experience that is rooted in a personalized interdisciplinary and global curriculum. Innovative January courses take students to points all over the world while McDaniel’s degree-granting European campus offers a unique opportunity for international study at the only American university in Budapest, Hungary. A diverse and close-knit community of 1,600 undergraduates and 1,560 part-time graduate students, McDaniel also boasts a spectacular 160-acre hilltop campus in Westminster, Md., an hour or less from Baltimore, D.C., the Chesapeake Bay, an Amtrak station and BWI international airport.