Cashau to retire from NAA p. 25

By: Editorial Staff

Cashau to retire from NAA p. 25

GEORGE R. CASHAU, senior vice president/technology at the Newspaper Association of America, announced he will retire in January 1995.
Associated with the NAA and its predecessor for almost 40 years, Cashau, 61, said the early announcement will "allow for an orderly transition to new leadership of the association's Technology and Telecommunications Department."
NAA chairman Donald E. Newhouse, president of Advance Publications Inc., said Cashau will chair a search committee of industry executives formed to choose his successor.
NAA chief executive Cathie Black said the Technology and Telecommunications Department will begin implementing a new strategic plan during Cashau's last year there. The plan stems from an analysis directed by NAA vice chairman Charles T. Brumback, Tribune Co. chairman and chief executive.
Upon obtaining a degree in mechanical engineering from Lafayette College, Cashau remained in Easton, Pa., to work as a technician at the Research Institute.
After holding various engineering positions there, Cashau was named environmental coordinator in 1975; by that time, the institute had been joined with the American Newspaper Publishers Association. He became ANPA/RI operations coordinator in 1980.
In 1983, when the institute was moved to ANPA's Reston, Va., headquarters, Cashau was named technical research director.
In 1989, he was promoted to vice president. At the end of that year, he took over the department led by William Rinehart, with whom he had worked for about 30 years. He has been senior vice president since 1990. ANPA was merged with other organizations to become NAA in 1992.
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