University Times

Publications produced by Pitt’s Office of Public Affairs won 11 District II CASE Accolades Awards, the largest number won by any university this year.

Two regional campus publications also won district awards.

Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) is the professional organization for advancement professionals who work in alumni relations, communications, marketing and development. More than 3,000 colleges, universities and other schools belong to CASE.

• Pitt Magazine received three awards.

In the category of Magazines (per issue cost greater than $20,000), Pitt Magazine received the silver award.

In the category of Best Articles of the Year, Pitt Magazine received the silver award for “Walking Miracle” (March 2002) by Kris Mamula, senior editor, and the bronze award for “Stern Words” (September 2002) by Meghan Holohan, staff contributor.

Members of the 2002 Pitt Magazine staff, in addition to Mamula and Holohan, included: Vice Chancellor for Public Affairs Robert Hill, publisher; Associate Vice Chancellor for University News and Magazines John Harvith, executive editor; Robert Mendelson, editor in chief, Gary A. Cravener, creative director; Cindy Gill, senior editor; Chuck Dinsmore, production manager, and Bill Young, advertising manager.

• Pitt Med magazine, produced for Pitt’s School of Medicine, received the gold award in the category of Magazines (per issue cost greater than $20,000).

Members of the 2002 staff included: Senior Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences and Dean of the School of Medicine Arthur S. Levine, publisher; Erica Lloyd, editor in chief; Elena Gialamas Cerri, art director; Jason Togyer, senior editor; Dottie Horn, associate editor; Dinsmore, production coordinator, and staff contributors Holohan and Megan E. Sofilka.

• Pitt Chronicle received the gold award in the category of Magapapers (per issue cost of less than $10,000).

Members of the 2002 staff included: Hill, publisher; Harvith, associate publisher; David R. Eltz, executive editor; Linda K. Schmitmeyer, editor; Dwight Chambers, art editor, and staff writers Sharon S. Blake, Ron Cichowicz, John A. Fedele, Leigh Ann Sobehart and Patricia Lomando White.

• University Marketing Communications (UMC) received six awards.

In the category of Fund-Raising Publications (statement publications that make a case for giving), UMC received the silver award for Blue, Gold & Black.

UMC won a second silver award for Blue, Gold & Black, in the category of Individual Institutional Relations and Alumni Relations Publications (individual institutional relations publication).

The publication team for the client, Executive Communications, included: Hill, publisher; Mary Ann Aug, executive editor; Gill, editor, and Don Henderson, art director.

In the category of Fund-Raising Publications (fund-raising publications packages), UMC received the bronze award for Invest in a Masterpiece.

The publication team for the client, Pitt’s Office of Institutional Advancement, included: Terry Capp, communications manager, and Coleen Rush, graphic designer.

Also in the category of Individual Institutional Relations and Alumni Relations Publications (individual institutional relations publication), UMC received a silver award for University of Pittsburgh Community Impact Report 2002.

The publication team included: Hill, publisher; Gill, editor; Henderson, senior graphic designer; Alan Lesgold, Schmitmeyer and John Wilds, contributing editors, and Chambers, contributing graphic designer.

In the category of Print Advertising (special programs advertising), UMC received the silver award for its institutional image ads.

The advertising team included: Hill; Young, director of publications and marketing, and Mauclair, graphics director.

In the category of Print Advertising (individual advertising), UMC received the gold award for its Pitt Alumni Association ads.

The advertising team included Young and Mauclair.

Also on the teams for the UMC projects were Dinsmore, production coordinator, and Aviva Selekman, proofreader.

• Also garnering a CASE award was the Bradford campus alumni magazine, Portraits.

Portraits received a silver award in the Magazine category (per issue cost between $10,000 and $20,000).

The magazine, which was created in 1993, is published three times a year for alumni, friends, faculty and staff to provide news and features about the college, its programs and its people.

Portraits editor is Pat Frantz Cercone, Pitt-Bradford’s director of communications. Portraits staff members include: Marcell Mallette, alumni editor; Brigid Flanigan, staff writer; Heidi Mackowski and Dan Parker, copy editors, and Randy Flament and Glenn Melvin, photographers.

The magazine is published by the UPB Office of Communications.

• The Johnstown campus won a bronze CASE award in the Special Events, Year-long Activities category for its 75th anniversary marketing campaigns.

UPJ’s Office of Marketing and Public Relations, part of Institutional Advancement, together with WJAC-TV and Dame Broadcasting, produced “University Corner,” which conveyed area educational expertise; “Anniversary Tributes” and “Making a World of Difference,” produced with the Johnstown Tribune-Democrat, which featured UPJ achievements and history, and “75 Years of Making the Grade,” produced with Fox8/ABC 23, which showcased local alumni in their professional roles.

The criteria for the award included creativity, innovation, adherence to professional standards and meeting objectives.

Kimberly M. Miller is Pitt-Johnstown’s director of Marketing and Public Affairs.