The University of the Virgin Islands, UVI students and one UVI
professor recently garnered eight top awards in the Virgin Islands'
2010 ADDY Awards competition. ADDY Awards honor the best radio, TV,
print and online advertising produced in the territory. They are
sponsored annually by the American Advertising Federation (AAF) of
the U.S. Virgin Islands.
UVI students swept the competition's Student Awards category, with
Paul Remy, Jr. taking the Student Best of Show ADDY for a poster
titled Virgin Islands Scenic Locations. Remy, who works for MLB
Creative, also received the federation's $1,000 Silver Medal AAF
Scholarship in recognition of his academic excellence and community
involvement.
Rounding out the contest's UVI student winners were St. Clair
Hodge, who accepted the Silver ADDY Student Award in the Mixed
Media Campaign category, and Ava Gumbs, who won a Silver ADDY
Student Award in the Television category for a program titled
"Inside VI-EPSCoR."
Remy, a 22-year-old senior marketing major who graduates later this
month, is hoping to pursue a masters degree in marketing at
Savannah College of Art and Design. He is a member of the Future
Business Leaders of America. His advice to other students thinking
of a marketing career: "You have to be out there, interactive."
Remy said he displays much of his work - flyers, brochures, posters
- through social networking sites such as Facebook, which is
something that was recommended at an AAF District conference he
recently attended. "Take advantage of every opportunity that comes
your way. If I hadn't taken advantage of Future Business Leaders of
America and if I hadn't taken advantage of Facebook, my work
wouldn't have been seen," Remy said. "It links you to
everybody."
Hodge, a senior business administration student with a
concentration in marketing, said the ADDY award he accepted
represented the work of a number of UVI students, including the
members of a team in last fall's Business 234 class - Hodge, Keroma
Pollock, Conniah McCarty, Keri Weeks and Nathleen Adams. The team
also received video and audio editing assistance from Celestino
Arriendell, Shawn Seabrookes and Dwight Winston. Arriendell and
Seabrooks are current UVI students. Winston is a UVI graduate.
Hodge, who is 28, is also the outgoing President of the UVI Ad
Club. He expects to graduate in December.
Gumbs, 23, is a senior communication major specializing in
broadcast media who will also graduate this month. Her
award-winning video was created for UVI's VI-EPSCoR (Experimental
Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) program as part of her
senior internship program. She has applied to participate in UVI's
Future Global Leaders of the Caribbean program this summer and
hopes to study health communications in graduate school at Emerson
College in Boston.
The University took six ADDY Awards. Of these, three were in the
Radio category, two in the Advertising for the Arts category, and
one in the Collateral category.
In the Radio category UVI took the coveted Best of Radio Gold ADDY
Award - for a 60-second radio commercial featuring the "Afternoon
on the Green" jingle by lyricist and composer Ashley "Ashanti"
George - and Gold Addy Awards in the Music with Lyrics and
60-Second Radio categories.
UVI's Reichhold Center for the Arts received Gold Addy Awards in
the Brochure category for its 2009-2010 Season Brochure and for its
2009-2010 Season Campaign. The University also won a Silver Addy in
the Four Color Brochure category for the 2007-2008 UVI President's
Annual Report.
Alex Randall, a UVI visiting assistant professor of Communication,
won a Gold ADDY in the Online category for his daily Podcast
from Paradise, which features weather, good news and music
from the USVI. The program, produced by Randall, is hosted by
VInow.com, where UVI grad Ansen Sligar is the web host. Podcast
from Paradise is available at www.vinow.com/podcast and from
Apple's online iTunes Music Store, where it has some 4,000
subscribers.
The 2010 awards were judged by a team of media professionals
including advertising/creative directors Chic Davis, Lisa
Colantuono and Leslie Winthrop of Baltimore and New York.