AAF Calendar of Events

2006

Western Region Conference
September 7–9
Las Vegas, Nev.

AAF Diversty Achievement and Mosaic Awards & Forum
September 27
New York Athletic Club
New York, N.Y.

AAF & AAAAs Minority Vendor Trade Fair
November 3
New York, N.Y.

AAF Advertising Hall of Achievement
November 14
Cipriani, 42nd Street
New York, N.Y.

2007

Most Promising Minority Students Program
February 7–9
New York Athletic Club
New York, N.Y.

Mosaic Career Fairs
March & April

Advertising Hall of Fame March 20
The Waldorf=Astoria
New York, N.Y.

Joint Government Affairs Conference
April
Washington, D.C.

AAF National Conference
June 7–9
Louisville, Kentucky

As a member of your local advertising club you are also a member of the American Advertising Federation (AAF), the industry's largest and most representative organization of the advertising industry. Our membership represents corporate members, local advertising clubs and federations and college chapters. AAF is truly the "unifying voice for advertising."

Summer 2006

New AAF Staff Member

Andrea Burnside, manager, AAF mosaic center and education services, aburnside@aaf.org. Andrea manages the Mosaic Center programs, which include the Mosaic Awards, Most Promising Minority Students Program and the Mosaic Principles & Practices. Prior to joining the AAF, Andrea taught communications at the University of West Georgia and held advertising sales positions at Clear Channel Entertainment and CBS/Viacom. Andrea received her B.A. from UNLV in communications and a master's degree from Howard University in mass communications.

New AAF Board Members Elected

Andy Jung	Murray Gaylord

The American Advertising Federation (AAF) named industry executives to its board of directors, effective July 1, 2006. Andy Jung, senior director of advertising & media services, Kellogg Company, will again serve as AAF chairman and Murray Gaylord, vice president, brand marketing, Yahoo! Inc., will serve as AAF vice chairman, as part of their two-year term. Board members were voted in by the membership at the AAF National Conference 2006 annual business meeting on June 13.

Additional board executives include:
* Treasurer: Al Schultz, chairman & CEO, Valassis
* Assistant Treasurer: Denise Warren, chief advertising officer, The New York Times Media Group
* Secretary: Rick Carpenter, president, DDB Los Angeles
* Assistant Secretary: Mike Kelly, president, AOL Media Networks
* Corporate Chair: Linda Thomas Brooks, executive director – media & marketing, Trilogy
* Corporate Vice Chair (East): David Verklin, CEO, Carat Americas
* Corporate Vice Chair (West): Jo Muse, chairman & CEO, Muse Communications, Inc.
* Corporate Vice Chair (Central): Rich Stoddart, president, Leo Burnett USA
* Mosaic Council Chair: Hector Orcí, CEO, L'Agencia de Orcí & Asociados
* Mosaic Council Vice Chair: Frank Cooper, VP – marketing, CSD flavors, Pepsi-Cola Company
* Immediate Past Chair: Jack Griffin, Meredith Corporation
* Council of Governors Chair: Helen Lavelle, creative director, Lavelle Murray Advertising, Scranton, Pa.
* Academic Chair: Jami Fullerton, associate professor of advertising, Oklahoma State University
* National ADDY^® Committee Chair: Stacy McCullough, Sprenger McCullough & Company
* National Conference Chairman: Nick Ferrari, Erdos & Morgan

Board of Directors – Corporate:

Agencies Mary Baglivo, Saatchi & Saatchi Laura Desmond, MediaVest Tony Dieste, Dieste Harmel & Partners Karen Francis, Publicis & Hal Riney Tim Love, Omnicom John Osborn, BBDO NY	Advertisers Donna Campanella, Pfizer Jerri DeVard, Verizon Lora DeVuono, Frito-Lay Judy Hu, General Electric Steve Pacheco, FedEx David Raines, Coca-Cola
Media Tim Armstrong, Google Judy Barry, The Wall Street Journal Scott Donaton, Crain Communications/The Ad Age Group Wright Ferguson, Adweek Jim Hackett, Parade Mike Shaw, ABC	At Large Joe Abruzzese, Discovery Keith Bowen, TV One Louis Carr, BET Jason Klein, Newspaper National Network José Lozano, ImpreMedia Jeff Webber, USA TODAY

Board of Directors – Additional Members:
* Academic Committee Vice Chair: Steve Hall, University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign
* Peggy Conlon, Ad Council
* Paula Alex, Advertising Education Foundation
* Andrea Alstrup, Board Consultant

Helen Lavelle

Council of Governors—AAF's 200 local ad clubs and federations are represented by the council of governors on the national board of directors:
* Chair: Helen Lavelle, creative director, Lavelle Murray Advertising, Scranton, Pa.
* Vice Chair: John A. Aguillard, president, Wisdom Marketing/Advertising, San Antonio, Texas
* Secretary/Treasurer: Andy Narrai, account manager, Scheibel Halaska, Milwaukee, Wis.
* Immediate Past Chair: Stacy McCullough, president, Sprenger McCullough & Company, Kansas City, Mo.

The 2006–2007 AAF Council of Governors includes the following AAF members:
* District 2: Nicholas Ferrari, CEO, Erdos & Morgan, Inc., Syosset, N.Y.
* District 3: Barry Wilson, managing director, Planet Central, Huntersville, N.C.
* District 4: James Bozeman, sales and marketing consultant, Sun State Media Direct, Gainesville, Fla.
* District 5: Tom Moore, president, Moore & Associates, Cleveland, Ohio
* District 6: Marta Jones, president, Outhouse, Inc., Rockford, Ill.
* District 7: Vicki Mills, VP – business development, Imedia Group, Macon, Ga.
* District 8: Gina Nacey, senior copywriter, Agency 128, St. Cloud, Minn.
* District 9: Jeffrey DeLong, creative director, Digital IMS, Lincoln, Neb.
* District 10: Susan Adkins, president, Adkins & Associates, Inc., Ft. Worth, Texas
* District 11: Jackie Peterson, market development director, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.
* District 12: Diane Plassmeyer, director – marketing, Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co., Colorado Spring, Colo.
* District 13: Jim Myers, president, Honolulu Publishing Company, Honolulu, Hawaii
* District 14: Courtney Smith, chief creative officer/co-founder, Pure Matter Marketing & Brand Strategy, San Jose, Calif.
* District 15: Mark Landon, president, The Landon Agency, Ontario, Calif.

Division Chairs:
* Division 1: Ron Sweeney, advertising agency relations manager, The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.
* Division 2: Dana Clary, VP – account services, REVOLVE, Orlando, Fla.
* Division 3: Joseph Kelly, partner/CMO, Triad Consulting Corporation, Phoenix, Ariz.
* Division 4: Carl Brigandi, owner, Daytona Beach News-Journal, Daytona Beach, Fla.
* Division 5: Chad Gennow, account executive, MRM Worldwide, San Francisco, Calif.

Region Chairs:
* Eastern Region: Chic Davis, EVP/ECD, Advertising Media Plus, Baltimore, Md.
* Central Region: Marc Eisenberg, owner, Eisenberg Communigraphics, Corpus Christi, Texas
* Western Region: Julie Childs, senior production manager, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, Sacramento, Calif.

National Ad 2—Ad 2 is a national network of local advertising federations whose members are age 32 and younger. Ad 2 clubs give young professionals a chance to interact with their peers, and they help to bridge the gap between college graduation and entry into the professional world by providing professional development and public service programs. For more information on Ad 2, please visit www.ad2.org.

2006–2007 Ad 2 Board:
Chair: Chad Gennow, Ad 2 San Francisco
Vice Chair: Vinny Tafuro, Ad 2 Tampa Bay
Treasurer: Jocelyn Lee, Ad 2 Honolulu
Secretary: Elizabeth Ratliff, Ad 2 West Michigan
Immediate Past Chair: Devon Baxter, Ad 2 Tampa Bay

National Ad 2 Public Service Competition—This year seven teams participated in the National Ad 2 Public Service Competition. With more than one million dollars donated in time, media and creative services last year, the National Ad 2 Public Service Competition truly shows how our local clubs provided their nonprofits clients a service. This year the National Ad 2 Public Service Competition winner was Ad 2 Madison with their powerful work for Madison County's Rape Crisis Center.

From the left: Chad Gennow, Andrew Courter and Jessika Kasten of Ad 2 Madison. Visit www.ad2.org for more info about our competition or how to start a club in your area.

Advertising Excellence

Advertising Hall of Achievement—The Advertising Hall of Achievement is the industry's premier award for outstanding advertising professionals age 40 or younger. For information on sponsorship opportunities, table reservations and/or program advertisements, please visit www.aaf.org/ahoa or contact Dee Dee Swartz at (800) 999-2231 or dswartz@aaf.org.

Multiculturalism

Diversity Achievement and Mosaic Awards—The AAF has joined forces with District Two once again to host the Diversity Achievement and Mosaic Awards and Forum as part of Advertising Week New York. The Diversity Achievement and Mosaic Awards & Forum are intended to not only recognize those in advertising that have demonstrated a commitment to a more diversified industry, but also provide a medium for discussing topics affecting today's advertising industry. Mosaic Awards are presented in each of the following categories: Workforce Diversity, Employee Diversity, Multicultural Ad Campaign, Multicultural Media Usage, Multicultural Supplier Partners and Student Diversity Programs. In addition, District Two gives Diversity Achievement Awards in the following categories: Industry Career Achiever, Industry Influential, Role Model, Educator, Trendsetter and Corporate Leader. The sponsorship deadline for the Diversity Achievement and Mosaic Awards Luncheon & Forum is August 18. The AAF will announce the award recipients in each category on August 10. Please click here for more details.

This year's Diversity Achievement and Mosaic Awards and Forum will be held on September 27, 2006, at the New York Athletic Club.

For more information on the Mosaic Awards, please contact Andrea Burnside at (800) 999-2231or aburnside@aaf.org. For information on the Diversity Achievement Awards, please contact Pat Martin at (212) 644-0790 or patjmartin@aol.com.

AAF Member Benefits

As a member of the AAF, you are entitled to discounts on the AAF Visa Credit Card, Adweek, Brandweek, Mediaweek and Advertising Age magazines, FedEx shipping, Hertz rental cars, Mutual of Omaha insurance and more.

Go to www.aaf.org/discounts for details on all programs.

2005 Gunn Report—The American Advertising Federation and The Gunn Report have partnered in a joint effort to offer ADDY entrants a special price for the purchase of The Gunn Report & Showreel of the Year 2005.

The Gunn Report has all the essential information on creative advertising in 2005 and the definitive Showreel of the world's best work of the year.

To purchase your copy the Gunn Report & Showreel of the Year, visit www.gunnreport.com and quote the special AAF Promotion Code AAF12 on the order section and you will receive a 10 percent discount. As an incentive to the ADDY Awards program, The Gunn Report will also donate a further 10 percent of each purchase to the Student ADDY Awards.

If you have any questions, please e-mail Gail Bozeman, AAF vice president – event management, at (800) 999-2231 or gbozeman@aaf.org.