Ball Corporation is a provider of metal packaging for beverages, foods and household products, and of aerospace and other technologies and services to commercial and governmental customers. The Ball brothers renamed their business the Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company, incorporated in 1886. Its headquarters, as well as its glass and metal manufacturing operations, were relocated to Muncie in 1889. The business was renamed the Ball Brothers Company in 1922 and the Ball Corporation in 1969. Vernon C. Schranz was the first public relations officer for the Ball Corporation.

 

 

The Schranz family are generous benefactors of the Vernon C. Schranz Lecture. We thank them for their generosity, giving Ball State University public relations students the opportunity to earn the Vernon C. & Mary H. Schranz Scholarship.