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Officers and Directors

President - John Cash Vice President - Bill Cummings Secretary - Ky Lindsay Treasurer - Lindsay Webster Directors - Cathy Agee                       Sandy Gillis                      Joel Jenkins Liason from Mid-Atlantic Board - Gayle Smith

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT:
John E. Cash
423-359-3165

MID-ATLANTIC N.A.M.E. SCHOLARSHIP AWARD ANNOUNCED

GREENEVILLE, TN - The 2010 Alex Busick Scholarship Award in the amount of $5,000 has been awarded to Courtney Kelly of Lilburn, GA who attends Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, GA. John Cash, President of the Mid-Atlantic N.A.M.E. (Newspaper Advertising Marketing Executives) Scholarship Foundation, will introduce Kelly at the summer conference in Charlotte, NC in June, where she will be among the top newspaper advertising and marketing executives in the six-state region.

The Mid-Atlantic N.A.M.E. Scholarship Foundation, Inc. was formed in February
1977, and provides financial assistance to qualified students majoring in advertising, with an expressed interest in newspaper advertising, at a recognized college or university in the Mid-Atlantic region. Mid-Atlantic N.A.M.E. named the scholarship award after Alex Busick who passed away in April 1997. Busick was an honorary life member of the association and advertising manager for Lowe’s Companies for a number of years. Due to Alex Busick’s dedication & inspiration to the youth in newspaper advertising, the foundation board voted unanimously at that time to name the scholarship award in his memory.

Each year the creative assignment is changed to give college students a chance to design an ad or campaign around important subjects in their everyday lives. This year’s creative assignment centered on educating college students on the dangerous over-consumption of alcohol, or binge drinking. Some of the assignments in the past have been focused on Cigarette Smoking, Teen Suicide, Habitat for Humanity, Road Rage, Red Cross, Big Brother/Big Sisters, Importance of Voting and Dangers of Texting While Driving.

At the beginning of each school year, the Scholarship Foundation committee mails information to each of the colleges and universities in the six states which the association membership represents (NC, SC, TN, GA, VA, W VA). Students must complete an application, write a statement using 200-500 words telling the judges about themselves and why they are interested in an advertising career, and then create a newspaper advertisement or campaign for that year’s assignment to meet a client’s objective. For more information, visit the associations’ website: www.midatlanticname.org/

2010 Scholarship Winning Ad Entry:

2010 Winner Courtney Kelly

CLICK ON IMAGE FOR A WINNING ENTRY FORM AND AD DOWNLOAD VERSION. Note: All Mid-Atlantic Newspapers can download and use winning entry as a house ad.

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Andy Shapiro Fund Fights Cancer Andy Shapiro was always going somewhere.

During his 40-year career with Metro Creative Graphics, Inc., Shapiro attended hundreds of newspaper conventions, conferences and trade shows, made innumerable presentations and met with countless people all with one purpose - to show how newspapers can increase revenue.

Andy Shapiro understood the power of newspapers, and he challenged them to use that power in August 2005 - just two months before his death from non-smoking-related cancer - when he took to the podium for the last time to accept a lifetime achievement award from the Newspaper Special Sections Network.

During his acceptance speech, Shapiro called on publications large and small to use their influence in the fight against cancer. Everyone in the audience listened closely, and no one listened more intently than Debra Shapiro Weiss, Metro's Executive Vice President and Andy's daughter. From her seat in the audience that day, Debra was moved to take up her father's call to action - and the concept of the Andrew E. Shapiro Cancer (AESC) Foundation was born.