PR News recently named Tim Hayes as the winner of its Platinum PR Award for National Excellence in Speechwriting.  The award came in recognition of Tim’s speech, “Get Out! Commencing a Journey of Continuous Self-Improvement,” which was delivered during the 2007 Commencement Exercises at Robert Morris University.  The Platinum PR Awards are given annually and recognize excellence in a variety of communications categories from among scores of entries submitted on a national basis.  The same speech also won an Award of Honor from the International Association of Business Communicators.