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# D.C.-Area Updates: Margery Kraus, Stephanie Orton Lynch and Gary Jonas
- URL: https://capitolcommunicator.com/d-c-area-updates-margery-kraus-stephanie-orton-lynch-and-gary-jonas/
- Published: 2014-09-29T18:58:39.000Z
- Updated: 2014-11-11T22:00:02.000Z
- Author: Guest Columnist
- Tags: PR, Agency, #Import 2026-10-08 18:46

**Margery Kraus, founder of APCO in D.C.,** is featured in a “What Made Me” profile in the October issue of Washingtonian magazine. She started her professional career as a high-school civics teacher, and states that the best advice she can give is” “Don’t have your life so planned that you can’t take opportunities that come along.”

**D.C.-based Delucchi Plus, appointed Stephanie Orton Lynch** its executive vice president. In this newly created role, Lynch will be part of the executive team. Previously, she was the firm’s VP/communications.

**Gary Jonas has died.** From 1988 to 1993, he served as president and CEO of Earle Palmer Brown, a major communications firm, now closed, that was based in Bethesda.