Beatles Bash Benefit Scheduled for June 21

A live concert featuring A Hard Night’s Day (awesome Beatles cover band from Dallas) will take place at LaGrave Field (home of the Fort Worth Cats) on Saturday, June 21, 2008. This event is an AAF-Fort Worth-sponsored benefit for Limbs for Life Foundation, a global nonprofit organization dedicated to providing fully functional prosthetic care for individuals who cannot otherwise afford it and raising awareness of the challenges facing amputees.

Tickets are $10 for general admission, $5 for children 4-12. Children 3 and under are free.

Watch this newsletter for more information on the event as well as how to purchase tickets or make contributions.

A good time was had by all...

It was a beautiful evening for the Ad Club's May mixer on the patio at Piola on May 8. Another mixer is being planned for June - Hope to see everyone there. Watch this newsletter and your email for details!

AMA Mastering Sales Series Continues

DFW American Management Association presents part of the Mastering Sales Series on May 23, 2008 at La Cima Club in Irving from 8-10 AM. The speaker is Bryan Flanagan, Director of Training, Zig Ziglar. To see Flanagan in action, click here.

For more information, or to register for the program, click here.

Hondo Group Hires Two Account Supervisors

The Hondo Group, a Fort Worth-based marketing communications company with a new location in Darlington, WI, is pleased to announce the addition of Shana Barkley and Patricia Lawson to their team of innovative experts.

Barkley and Lawson both have been named account supervisors and will be responsible for strategic planning and managing client relationships. Barkley will work at The Hondo Group headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas, focusing on the organization’s professional services clients and emerging media offerings while Lawson will work in the Darlington office on The Hondo Group’s ever-expanding list of agribusiness clients.

“As our clients continue to grow, so must our team,” said Lynn Balinas, president of The Hondo Group. “We are very selective when hiring talent and our patience in finding the best has paid off with the addition of Shana and Patricia.”

Jubilee Theatre held Annual Birthday Bash, Honored Ruth Ann Kearley

For the past several years, Jubilee Theatre has celebrated its birthday by hosting an Annual Birthday Bash. This event celebrates those community supporters that have helped Jubilee reach its fundraising goals during the year.

This year's event was held on Thursday, May 1, 2008 at Fort Worth's Modern Art Museum, and honored Ruth Ann Kearley, President of Kearley and Company, Inc., for her role on the Jubilee Board from 2000 to 2008, and her commitment to the Theatre's continued success. There were 460 people in attendance at the event, and the Jubilee Theatre raised nearly $140,000 in sponsorships and donations as a result of the party.

AMA Program to Feature Bell Helicopter VP, Strategic Marketing & Globalization

The American Marketing Association's June meeting will feature Kevin Connell, Bell Helicopter's Vice President of Strategic Marketing & Globalization. The meeting will be held at noon on Thursday, June 26, at the Fort Worth Club. Cost to attend is $28 for AMA members, $38 for non-members. For more information or to register, click here.

TCU Ad Students Win First Place in National Heineken USA/AAF Competition

Creative team members of the Texas Christian University NSAC team presented their first place "Who will you be tonight? " Heineken USA/AAF 2008 Public Service Advertising Competition campaign at the Heineken USA headquarters in White Plains, N.Y. on April 24th.
Standing left to right are: TCU students Nick Timmins, Natalie Clarke, President and CEO of Heineken USA, Don Blaustein, TCU student, Lindsay Moore and Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs for Heineken USA, Dan Tearno.

Each of the three students was presented with a $1,000 award. Their National Student Advertising Competition advisor, Mike Wood, also received a $600 award for coaching the team. Nick, Natalie and Lindsay are also on the TCU NSAC team that captured first runner-up honors in the AOL NSAC competition on April 18th. They are now awaiting results in the wild card competition to see if they will earn a return trip to the NSAC national finals this year in Atlanta.

Congratulations to the TCU team!

Nominating Committee Announces Candidates for Board, Officer Positions

The Nominating Committee of the AAF-Fort Worth announced its slate for officer and board member candidates during the April meeting of the AAF-FW. There were no nominations from the floor.

Officers:
President – Mike Roundtree, Roundtree Advertising
First Vice President – Jason Parker, Consolidated Graphics Group
Second Vice President – Keith Powell, Key Magazine Fort Worth
Immediate Past President – Kent Dean, Rosa’s Café Marketing

Board Members:
Casandra Brown, Rassai Interactive (2-year term)
Amanda Gibson, Concussion (2-year term)
Elisa Jackson, Kearley & Co. (2-year term)
Lindsay Lee, Skyline DFW (2-year term)
Leigh Hickman, Warren Douglas (1-year term, filling the unexpired term of Jon Lord)

Continuing board members:
Steve Higdon, Redstone Visual
Joe Shankles, The Color Place
Tom Van Gunten, Lockheed Martin

This slate of officers will be voted on during the May membership meeting on Tuesday, May 20, 2008.

Join AAF-FW to Honor Chef Tim Love with the Ad Club's Dateline Award

The Dateline Award is given each year to a local citizen, company or organization which has brought positive publicity to Fort Worth and Tarrant County during the previous calendar year. The winner this year is celebrity chef Tim Love – owner of Fort Worth’s The Lonesome Dove Western Bistro and the The Love Shack restaurant - and a victorious 2007 participant in the Food Network’s “Iron Chef America” program.

As the foremost pioneer of urban Western cuisine, Love wears a cowboy hat in place of a toque, and appoints nachos with kangaroo carpaccio and marries foie gras with chiles. A true Texan, the foundation of Love’s cuisine is, naturally, steak and wild game, and includes huge cuts of Texas steer, buffalo, antelope, red deer and wild boar, supplemented by lingonberries from Sweden, Manchego cheese from Spain, and Quandong sauce from Australia for global flair. In May 2007, Love appeared on the Food Network’s “Iron Chef America” in a victorious “Chile” battle against Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto. Love was also featured on the Food Network's "Challenge: Hawaiian Luau Beach BBQ.”

In July 2007, Love participated in the James Beard Foundation’s annual “Chefs & Champagne” tasting event at the Wolffer Estate Vineyard in Sagaponack, New York. Love appeared as a guest chef on Paula Deen’s, “Paula’s Party in October 2007, and in February 2008, Love was a guest chef at “Rachael Ray’s Burger Bash” at the 2008 Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival. Love capped off a busy 2007 by being named one of five “Lonestar Leaders” by KXAS NBC Dallas. Love was in the company of other fine Texans like Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Jason Witten of the Dallas Cowboys, Dallas Mavericks Coach Avery Johnson, and first daughter Jenna Bush. The honor recognized the work Love has done on behalf of Spoons Across America, which provides food and nutrition education to children, families, and teachers through school- and community-based programs.

In addition to Love’s recent television appearances, he has been featured extensively in national publications such as Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, Conde Nast Traveler and The Wall Street Journal and regularly appears in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Dallas Morning News, and D magazine.

We believe Chef Tim Love is truly deserving of our Dateline Award! The award will be presented at the May meeting at 11:45 a.m. on TUESDAY, May 20, 2008 at Joe T. Garcia's, in "The Hut." Click here to register for the event.

Thanks go to the Star-Telegram for sponsoring this event.

Sarah Copp Hired as Balcom’s New Account Executive

Fort Worth, Texas – April 28, 2008 – Sarah Copp, formerly of The Richards Group in Dallas, has been hired as the Balcom Agency’s newest account executive.

Copp is a 2000 graduate of the University of Texas at Austin where she earned spots on the Dean’s and President’s lists as well as various offices in the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and three honor fraternities.

At The Richards Group Sarah planned and coordinated advertising for the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and Guaranty Bank.