PEOPLE : Associated Press Board Reelects Keating as Chairman

William J. Keating has been reelected chairman of the board of Associated Press, and Frank A. Daniels Jr. has been elected vice chairman and chairman-elect by the board.

Keating is chairman and publisher of the Cincinnati Enquirer. His term as a director will expire in 1992. Daniels is president and publisher of the News & Observer of Raleigh, N.C.

Louis D. Boccardi has been reelected president and general manager.

The AP board’s reorganization meeting also included the seating of one new director and five incumbents and the election of two new vice presidents.

The AP management officers newly elected to one-year terms as vice presidents were William E. Ahearn, executive editor, and James R. Williams, director of AP Broadcast Services.

In addition to Boccardi, AP management officers reelected to one-year terms were James F. Tomlinson, vice president and secretary; Patrick T. O’Brien, vice president and treasurer, and vice presidents Claude E. Erbsen, Walter R. Mears, John W. Reid and Wick Temple.

Also reelected from the AP were assistant secretaries Lilo Jedelhauser and Lee Perryman, and assistant treasurers Frederick R. Barberi, Paul H. Jenssen and Roger P. Sturm.

David J. Whichard II, president and editor of the Daily Reflector of Greenville, N.C., was elected to represent a city of under 50,000 population, succeeding retiring director John O. Emmerich Jr. of the Greenwood (Miss.) Commonwealth. Emmerich was not eligible for reelection because he served the maximum of three consecutive terms.

The incumbents reelected to new three-year terms on the AP board were James K. Batten, chairman and chief executive of Knight-Ridder Inc., based in Miami; J. Stewart Bryan III, chairman and publisher of the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch and the Richmond News Leader; Ruth S. Holmberg, publisher of the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times; Tom Johnson, vice chairman of Times Mirror, which owns the Los Angeles Times, and Joe D. Smith Jr., president of the Alexandria (La.) Daily Town Talk.

The board of directors also reappointed Robert Morse of WMAQ-TV, Chicago, as a representative of the broadcasting industry. He will serve a two-year term.