Question: Who, dropping out of the university attended by the gold spike's owner in the city headquartering R&R Partners, became the person many refer to as the founder of public relations?

the golden spike (also known as the last spike) is the ceremonial 17.6 - karat gold final spike driven by leland stanford to join the rails of the first transcontinental railroad across the united states connecting the central pacific and union pacific railroads on may 10, 1869, at promontory summit, utah territory. the term last spike has been used to refer to one driven at the usually ceremonial completion of any new railroad construction projects, particularly those in which construction is undertaken from two disparate origins towards a meeting point. the spike is now displayed in the cantor arts center at stanford university. <SEP> They are known for creating the ad campaign "What Happens Here, Stays Here," for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA). R&R maintains domestic and international clients through its headquarters in Las Vegas, and eight locations in (Austin, Texas; Denver, Colorado; Los Angeles, California; Phoenix, Arizona; Reno, Nevada; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Washington, D.C.); Mexico (Mexico City). R&R Partners is an American advertising, marketing, public relations, and public affairs firm based in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2013, "Adweek" named R&R Partners the top marketing agency in the state of Nevada. It was also named one of the best places to work in marketing and media by "Advertising Age". <SEP> alberico gentili (january 14, 1552june 19, 1608) was an italian lawyer, jurist, and a former standing advocate to the spanish embassy in london, who served as the regius professor of civil law at the university of oxford for 21 years. recognised as the founder of the science of international law alongside francisco de vitoria and hugo grotius, gentili is perhaps one of the most influential people in legal education ever to have lived. he is one of the three men referred to as the "father of international law". gentili has been the earliest writer on public international law and the first person to split secularism from canon law and roman catholic theology. in 1587, he became the first non-english regius professor. <SEP> It was founded in March 1996 by 23-year-old Harvard graduates Tony Hsieh (who later went on to invest in and become the CEO of Zappos) and Sanjay Madan. Ali Partovi later joined them as a third partner in August 1996. In November 1996, when the company consisted of about 10 people, it moved from Hsieh's and Madan's living room to an office in San Francisco. In May 1997, the company received US$3 million in funding from Sequoia Capital. <SEP> Most textbooks date the establishment of the ``Publicity Bureau ''in 1900 as the start of the modern public relations (PR) profession. Basil Clarke is considered the founder of the public relations profession in Britain with his establishment of Editorial Services in 1924. Of course, there were many early forms of public influence and communications management in history. Academic Noel Turnball points out that systematic PR was employed in Britain first by religious evangelicals and Victorian reformers, especially opponents of slavery. In each case the early promoters focused on their particular movement and were not for hire more generally. <SEP> Gold Spike (formerly Gold Spike Hotel & Casino) is a bar, lounge, residential building, and former boutique 112 - room, seven floor hotel. It was owned by entrepreneur Tony Hsieh and his Downtown Project, having bought it from The Siegel Group; and the casino was operated by Golden Gaming. It is connected with the Oasis at the Gold Spike, a 50 - room three floor hotel located in downtown Las Vegas.