UNL advertising students earned a total of 10 Addy Awards in February, including Best of Show. Individual winners were the following:
Ad club wins national award
The UNL Ad Club was recognized in April by the American Advertising Federation with an award for chapter growth.
Megan Strahm was president of the Ad Club during 2001-2002 and helped build the membership to 93, the highest level in the group’s history. Under Strahm’s leadership, the Ad Club sponsored career-planning sessions, resumé building workshops and opportunities to network with agency principals and professionals throughout Lincoln and the United States. Strahm also led 40 Ad Club members in a November trip to Chicago and an April trip to Minneapolis to tour advertising agencies and network with industry leaders.
Sloane Signal was the Ad Club adviser for 2001-02.
Ad major wins national academic awards
Nancy Metcalf, an advertising major who graduated in December 2001, was named the academic all-American of the year and recipient of the NCAA’s Top VIII Award. Metcalf had a 3.81 grade point average. A member of the UNL volleyball team, Metcalf was a three-time All-American. The Top Eight award recognizes excellence in academics, athletics and community service. Metcalf was chosen from among more than 300,000 Division I, II and II student-athletes.
In addition, Laura Pilakowski,a junior advertising major with a 3.93 GPA, was named to the academic All-American second team.
Journalism student named top UNL student athlete
Diandra Hyman, an advertising major with a 3.7 grade point average, was named UNL’s top female student-athlete of the year in April. Hyman, a senior from Dyer, Ind., is one of the top bowlers in the nation.
Student, professor help Habitat for Humanity
Student Susanne Novak and faculty member Phyllis Larsen were instrumental in the Lincoln/Lancaster County Habitat for Humanity’s winning an award of $10,000.
Novak wrote a story about a Habitat family for Larsen’s public relations course. Novak sent her story to the Lincoln Journal Star, and reporter Cindy Lange-Kubick made it the basis of a feature she wrote for the paper. That story helped to jump-start a fundraising effort for the family’s Habitat house.
Larsen, who is also PR committee chairwoman for the local Habitat chapter, sent the story to Habitat International, which decided to use the story in its marketing efforts. The international organization will give a $10,000 award to the local affiliate for each marketing tool created using the Lincoln-based story.