Award-winners make OSU shine brighter

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

 (Stillwater, OK   July 22, 2008) -- Oklahoma State University won 25 awards from the Oklahoma College Public Relations Association, with Stillwater’s University Marketing department bringing home more awards than any other participant in the statewide competition.

POSSE, OSU’s official sports magazine edited by Cory Cheney and designed by Kim Butcher, garnered five awards, including first place in the sports publications category.

Phil Shockley, who led OSU’s individual honors with six awards, took second place in the traditional photography category for POSSE’s cover shot of Cowgirls point guard Andrea Riley, and second and third place in digitally enhanced sports photography for POSSE’s cover photos of wide receiver Dez Bryant and running back Dantrell Savage.

Communication specialist Matt Elliott won second place in sports writing for his profile of men’s basketball referee Curtis Shaw in the April 2008 POSSE.

STATE magazine, the official magazine of OSU, also won five awards, including second place in the magazine category. Shockley won first place in traditional photography and first place in cover design for his photo of alumnus and sculptor Harold Holden, and STATE editor Janet Varnum’s story about Holden received an honorable mention in the full-length feature writing category.

Elliott won first place in full-length feature writing for his STATE story about OSU alumnus and former UTEP basketball coach Don Haskins and his 1966 NCAA championship.

Photographer Gary Lawson won first place in the traditional sports photography category for his OSU Athletics website photo of Cowboy tight end Brandon Pettigrew stiff-arming a Texas Tech player on a touchdown reception.

OSU marketing staff also scored high marks in the poster category. Mark Pennie, assistant director of University Marketing, won first place in four-color design for his poster “Multicultural Day,” and designer Paul V. Fleming won second place for his poster “Academic Integrity: Cowboy Values.” Butcher won first and third place in spot-color poster design for “Bring ID, get in free” and the 2007 men’s basketball poster.

College magazine editor Eileen Mustain and Fleming won an honorable mention in the magazine category for the 2007 Vet Cetera, the Center for Veterinary Health Sciences annual magazine, which also won an honorable mention in the traditional photography category for Shockley’s cover photo, “100 Years.”

In the print advertising category, Butcher won first place for “Oklahoma’s New Gold is Green” ad; and in the special publications category Pennie won first place for designing a brochure promoting OSU’s Doel Reed Center for the Arts in Taos, N.M.

In addition to University Marketing’s 19 awards, OSU garnered six more wins from OSU-Tulsa, OSU-Oklahoma City and the OSU-Stillwater Robert M. Kerr Food and Agricultural Product Center.

The OSU-Stillwater Food and Agricultural Product Center won two third-place awards for Mandy Gross, Craig Woods, Kevin Gragg and Kathy Conry’s “FAPC Video” in the video feature category; and Gross, Ruth Bobbitt, Rodney Holcomb and Justin McConaghy’s “FAPC 10-Year Economic Impact Report” in the larger brochure/flyer/booklet category.

OSU-Tulsa’s Marketing and Public Relations department won first place in the class schedule category for “2008 Class Schedules” and second place in the radio advertisement/PSA category for “OSU-Tulsa is Ready to Explore.”

And Todd Siggins of OSU-Oklahoma City’s Creative Services department won two honorable mentions for “Physical Plant Grand Opening Paint Cans” in the bright idea category and “Noon Tunes Poster” in the four-color poster design category.