Nominate an Extraordinary Person
for Our Prestigious Silver Medal Award
It is time to nominate those exceptional people who make a difference in our industry, our community; and our lives for the highest Award Memphis Advertising Federation and American Advertising Federation has to offer: The Silver Medal.
The Silver Medal Award recognizes an entire career of outstanding accomplishment and contribution in advertising. Criteria include:
• Contribution to company:The nominee must have achieved success in one or more of the following areas of work: advertising agency, advertiser, media, academia, or advertising service.
• Creative ability:The nominee must have shown a consistent, high degree of creative, original thinking in the area of advertising in which the nominee has worked.
• Contributions to the general advancement of advertising:The nominee must have worked to increase the stature and raise the standards of the advertising profession.
• Contributions to the community:The nominee must have been active in civic, religious or other groups dedicated to some phase of human or social welfare.
Anyone may be nominated – MAF membership is not necessary.Deadline for entries is Friday, October 16, 2009.
How to Nominate Someone:
Nominations should be no more than three pages, single-spaced and may be e-mailed to Art Gilliam at wlokradio@aol.com; or mail a copy of nomination to Art Gilliam, WLOK Radio, 363 South Second Street, Memphis, TN 38013.
Please note: If your nominee is selected as the 2010 Silver Medal winner, you will be responsible for coordinating the production of a video for the January 27, 2010 Silver Medal presentation.Previous nominees will be considered only if a letter of re-nomination is provided by the October 2nd deadline. For more information, call901-527-9565 or e-mail wlokradio@aol.com.
The surprise announcement and award of the 2010 recipient of the Silver Medal will be made at the January 2010 luncheon.
Past Recipients
1960 Mel Grinspan
1961 Dr. Robert M. Cooper
1962 Lester Gingold
1963 Tom O’Ryan
1964 Wallace Witmer
1965 Ernest Lee, Sr.
1966 Hoyt B. Wooten
1967 J.P. Tucker
1968 Holton Rush
1969 Dave Swearingen
1970 Charles Brakefield
1971 Lewis Sutton
1972 Avron Spiro, Sr.
1973 John Cleghorn
1974 Henry Slavick
1975 Ward Archer, Sr.
1976 Jan Gardner
1977 Harold Krelstein
1978 Joan White
1979 Milton Simon
1980 Abe Plough
1981 Bill Carrier, Jr.
1982 Tom Ragland
1983 Ed Dorrity
1984 Ott Roush
1985 Margaret Lowery
1986 Mori Greiner
1987 Deloss Walker1988 Dan Conaway
1989 Robert Bartusch
1990 John Malmo
1991 Ward Archer, Jr.
1992 Joe Williams
1993 Ed Bailey
1994 Trena Packer Street
1995 David Stewart
1996 Michael Thompson
1997 Dale Oden
1998 Sherri Sawyer
1999 Ron Spielberger
2000 Gay Veazey Williams
2001 Connie Hendrix
2002 Ken Sossaman
2003 Linda Roberts
2004 Dee Cole
2005 Bob Eoff
2006 Donna Gordy
2007 Craig Harper
2008 Steve Pacheco
2009 Art Gilliam