Cincinnati:
City of Charm
Bastian was chosen
from among Cincinnati's top freelance business communicators to co-write
corporate profiles about many of the city's business giants.
These 100 profiles appeared in the best-selling, 350-page business book,
Cincinnati: City of Charm published 1991(10,000 copies).
Bastian worked interviewed top management personnel (corporate communications
managers, CEOs, owners) in each company. Here's some of the respected
organizations Bastian profiled:
- Bethesda
Hospital
- Central
Trust Company
- Chemed
Corporation
- Children's
Hospital
- Cincinnati
Zoo
- Cintas
Corporation
- College
of Mt. St. Joseph
- GE Aircraft
Engines
- Gentry
Shops
- Good
Samaritan Hospital
- Hennegan
Company
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- KPMG
Peat Marwick
- Maple
Knoll Village
- Marion
Merrell Dow
- Nutone,
Inc.
- Renaissance
Investment
- Seasongood
& Mayer
- St. Elizabeth
Medical Center
- The Jewish
Hospital
- United
Medical Resources
- White
Castle System
- Zellerbach,
a Mead Co.
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PNC
Financial Corp
Editor and writer
working in Marketing Dept. of Central Bancorporation, part of PNC
Financial Corp; - at that time the 14th-largest bank holding company
in America, 1988-1989.
- Produced The
Bottom Line, a bimonthly, 24-page employee magazine with
a 6,000 circulation. Wrote features profiling employees and top executives
in the bank's myriad departments.
- Also served
as editor of a new quarterly employee newsletter with a 2,000
circulation. Wrote articles presenting the latest and best ideas on
how branch employees could deliver excellent customer service.
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Children's
Hospital Medical Center
Writer for Young
& Healthy, community magazine of Children's Hospital Medical
Center, Cincinnati. Topics covered: helping children handle anger,
pediatric hernias, carbon monoxide poisoning, childhood head injuries,
car safety for children, signs of pneumonia, thumb-sucking, developing
good study habits.
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The
Christ Hospital
Writer for Christ
Hospital Serving, community magazine of The Christ Hospital,
Cincinnati. Topics covered: breast reconstruction, hysterectomies, fighting
disease with lasers, infertility treatments, surviving cancer. Also
wrote medical information handouts about the hysterectomy operation
and infertility problems for the hospital's Women's Health Care Center.
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Swope Parkway
Health Center
Editor and writer
for Everyday, quarterly community newsletter of Swope Parkway
Health Center, a Kansas City hospital. Issues appeared as inserts
in Ingram's, the city's award-winning monthly business magazine,
and were also mailed to media and the general public.
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United Missouri
Bank
Writer for two
quarterly employee newsletters produced by United Missouri Bank,
at the time rated one of healthiest banks in America. Publications were
distributed to both Kansas and Missouri affiliates.
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St.
Anthony Messenger Press
Writer for Video
Department at St. Anthony Messenger Press (also a publisher of books,
a national family magazine and newsletters). Created study guides
for three Catholic Update videos. Topics: infant baptism, First
Communion, the seven sacraments.
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Fort
Hamilton Hughes Hospital
Editor and writer
for On the Horizon, the community newsletter of a substance-abuse
treatment program operated by Fort Hamilton Hughes Hospital,
Hamilton, OH.
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Greene Memorial
Hospital
Writer for LifeLines,
community magazine for Greene Memorial Hospital, Dayton, OH.
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Mercy
Health System
Writer for Mercy
Medstaff, medical staff newsletter distributed in the four hospitals
of the Mercy Health System, Greater Cincinnati Region. Wrote
three versions of newsletter per issue.
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Career Management
Center
Editor and writer
of CareerLine, the first newsletter published by Career Management
Center (CBC) based in Kansas City, MO. The company used this quarterly
publication to communicate with local corporations, human resources
professionals and its valued referral sources about important HR and
business trends. CBC is a full-service career counseling firm assisting
employees and their spouses learn how to adjust to living in new cities.
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