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Based in Bakersville, a tiny hamlet within the town of New Hartford in Connecticut’s northwest hills, Yates Communication is headquartered in a historic village center home. It’s a great place to think, write, and get the job done with few interruptions. |
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It is from this pleasant perch that we work to make life better for our clients from Connecticut to California. We all keep our overhead low, our quality high, and our fees reasonable. We take deadlines seriously. If that means working nights and weekends, so be it. |
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Our founder, head writer, and executive editor is Neal Yates, a native of Mystic, Connecticut. Following college and a stint in the army, he began his writing career in 1969, joining the staff of The Hartford Courant newspaper, the oldest continuously published newspaper in America. After 10 years as The Courant’s Western Connecticut news bureau chief he served as state editor of the award-winning |
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| Litchfield County Times before joining CIGNA Corporation in 1983. There, he was a manager of editorial publications, group account executive for CIGNA Healthcare, and senior marketing consultant for CIGNA Real Estate Partners. He still maintains a Connecticut real estate sales license. | ||
Recruited by Charlotte Hungerford Hospital as its director of development, Neal rose to vice president for community relations and fund development in the parent, two-hospital system. In 1990, after 22 years of hands-on experience in journalism, advertising, marketing, corporate communication and non-profit healthcare, he opened Yates Communication. |
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Our affiliate graphic designers share our background and philosophy. Experienced in working with and for major corporations and institutions, they also chose to work for themselves in environs of their own making closer to their families. Hugh “Putt” Brown is in nearby North Canton, Ted Paulsen is in Hartford, and Joan Auclair is almost a neighbor. Putt has a degree in typography from Rochester Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and for 20+ years owned and operated a Connecticut printing and typesetting business. Ted has a graphic design degree from the University of Utah is a former chief designer for a Fortune 100 company. Joan Auclair holds an English degree from Brown University and has spent 25 years in publication design and community service. Our print houses vary, but we traditionally use Goulet Printery, a full-service, family-owned and operated printing company in nearby Barkhamsted. They are good people and third-generation printers who go the extra mile when it’s needed. We like that, and so will you. We work intensely when you need us, but will enthusiastically take a day off when you don’t. Neal likes to play with his antique autos. Putt goes fly fishing, hunting or does some carpentry. Ted is either playing guitar and singing in area clubs or racing his sloop on Long Island Sound. Joan devotes lots of time to community projects, good books, and old movies. |
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