Welcome to the 2006 Master Communicator Awards Banquet

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Welcome to the 2006 Master Communicator Awards
Banquet

• Featured Presenter Peter M. Smudde, Ph.D.
• Awards Host Julie Staley of WICS-TV

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Message Formation and Framing

• Presented by Peter M. Smudde, Ph.D.
• Assistant Professor Coordinator of the Public
  Relations Program at the University of
  Wisconsin-Whitewater

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Master Communicator Awards

• Hosted by Julie Staley of WICS-TV

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Category 1Communication Management Division

• Award types
• Achievement
• Merit
• Excellence (highest award)

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Category 1A External Communication Program

• Achievement Award
• Talking to Teens about Drinking - Erin Cleary,
  Associated Beer Distributors of Central Illinois
• Elder Abuse- Breaking the Silence - Amanda Fox,
  Illinois Department of Aging

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Category 1A External Communication Program

• Achievement Award
• Auto Skid - Cathy Oloffson, COUNTRY Insurance
• The West Nile Virus - Kathleen Davis, McLean
  County Health Department

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Category 1D Employee Communication Program

• Merit Award
• United Way Campaign - Ashleigh Walker, COUNTRY
  Insurance
• Excellence Award
• 2006 Conference Materials - Mark Minder, Horace
  Mann Companies

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Category 1E Multi-Audience Communication Program

• Merit Award
• Web site redesign - Kevin Leamon, Horace Mann
  Companies

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Category 1F Marketing Communication Program

• Achievement Award
• My Choice campaign - Brenda McDaniels and Tracy
  Glass, E.W. McDaniels Marketing
• Pekin Hospital PVD campaign - Brenda McDaniels,
  Brenda Tomlinson and Dane LaMere, E.W. McDaniels
  Marketing
• First Mid Illinois Bank Wealth Management
  
  campaign - Brenda McDaniels, Eric Olsen and
  Emily LaHood, E.W. McDaniels Marketing

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Category 1F Marketing Communication Program

• Merit Award
• Educator Value Package - Marilyn Titone
  Schaefer, Jeff Fauring, Sharon Carter-Riefler,
  Doug Carr and Laura Hansmann, Horace Mann
  Companies
• Co-op Ad Campaign - Kevin Atterberry, Brenda
  Bach, Stephen Sykes and Tricia Berry, Horace Mann
  Companies

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Category 1F Marketing Communication Program

• Excellence Award
• A Viewbook for Illinois State University - Bob
  Aaron, Katy Killian, and Laura DiMascio, Illinois
  State University
• Dotted Line campaign for Farm Credit Services -
  Brenda McDaniels, Dane LaMere, Sean Thornton, and
  Emily LaHood, E.W. McDaniels Marketing

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Category IICommunication Skills Division

• Award types
• Achievement
• Merit
• Excellence (highest award)

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Category II A1 Writing (Features and Editorials)

• Achievement Award
• The Vision of Dr. Moy - Karen Carlson, SIU
  School of Medicine
• Life Goes on after Farm Accident - Alexander
  Williams, COUNTRY Insurance

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Category II A1 Writing (Features and Editorials)

• Achievement Award (continued)
• 4,000 Pennies and Counting - Cyndy Huff, State
  Farm Insurance
• Cellular Science Research Demystifies Immune
  System - Susan Marquardt Blystone, Illinois
  State University

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Category II A1 Writing (Features and Editorials)

• Merit Award
• We Had a Job to Do - Rachel Hatch, Hatch
  Freelance
• Holy Murder Novelist Kate Charles Takes Crime
  to Church - Elaine Graybill, Illinois State
  University

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Category II A2 Writing (Special Projects)

• Achievement Award
• Springfield Technology on Rise? - Raegan
  Hennemann, Springfield Business Journal

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Category II B1 Design (Magazines)

• Achievement Award
• Wingspan - Ande Scarbrough, Horace Mann
  Companies
• Historic Illinois - Farah Salim, Squires
  Advertising
• News and Views - Teresa Henry, Illinois State
  University

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Category II B3 Design (Newsletters)

• Achievement Award
• Seasons Lincoln Memorial Garden Newsletter -
  Polly Danforth, Morningstar Design and Jim
  Matheis, Lincoln Memorial Garden

• Excellence Award
• Menold Newsletter - Brenda McDaniels, Aaron
  Shane and Tracy Glass, E.W. McDaniels Marketing

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Category II B4 Design (Special Publications)

• Achievement Award
• Opera Illinois 2005-2006 brochure - Brenda
  McDaniels, E.W. McDaniels Marketing
• SIM Baby Announcement - Mike Mahle, Illinois
  State University
• Piano Studies - Mike Mahle, Illinois State
  University

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Category II B4 Design (Special Publications)

• Merit Award
• Illinois Shakespeare Festival brochure - Teresa
  Henry, Illinois State University
• Rochelle Community Hospital brochure - Brenda
  McDaniels, E.W. McDaniels Marketing

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Category II B5 Design (Special Projects)

• Achievement Award
• Auto Skid Program - Rich Hecker, COUNTRY
  Insurance
• Nelsons Catering Menu - Farah Salim, Squires
  Advertising
• 2005-2006 Elite Expedition/Big Dance Promo -
  Sue Sawyer, COUNTRY Insurance

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Category II C1 Multimedia (Photography)

• Achievement Award
• One Thousand Words - James Hawker, SIU School
  of Medicine
• Convention Booth Display - Brenda Bach, Sharon
  Carter-Riefler, Mark Minder, Doug Carr, and
  Tricia Berry, Horace Mann Companies

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Category II C2 Multimedia (Audiovisual)

• Merit Award
• Domestic Violence and Its Effects on Children -
  Julia Wolfe, Chestnut Health Systems
• COUNTRY Auto Skid CD - Rachel Schlipmann,
  COUNTRY Insurance
• Homecoming 2004 Highlights Montage - Jerry
  Abner, Illinois State University, and ISU Video
  Communication Resources

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Category II C2 Multimedia (Audiovisual)

• Excellence Award
• Redbird Card Orientation - Jerry Abner,
  Illinois State University, ISU Video
  Communication Resources
• Take a Bow - Jerry Abner, Illinois State
  University, ISU Effective Digital Presentations

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Category II C3 Multimedia (Web)

• Merit Award
• Accelerant Detection K9 website - Dawn Fones,
  State Farm Insurance
• Work Plans - Kathy Oberheizer, State Farm
  Insurance

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Category II D Overall Communication Skills

• Merit Award
• Aspects - Karen Carlson and James Hawker, SIU
  School of Medicine
• Illinois State Alumni Magazine - Susan
  Marquardt Blystone, Illinois State University

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Category II E Special Event

• Excellence Award
• Zero to Sixty in Three Days - Elizabeth Fiala,
  Illinois Association of Chamber of Commerce
  Executives

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Thank you for attending the 2006 Master
Communicator Awards!

• Congratulations to all award recipients!

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