Dallas Communicators Showcase Excellence, Win 2005 Dallas/IABC Bronze Quill Awards.

DALLAS -- Professional communicators in Dallas and surrounding areas gathered Oct. 7 to discover who were named this year's "the best of the best" at the 2005 Dallas/IABC Bronze Quill Awards luncheon. The event was hosted by the Dallas chapter of International Association of Business Communicators, and largely sponsored by Eisenberg & Associates.

This year's Dallas/IABC Bronze Quill winners include:

    --  Kerry Silver and Steve Smith of Silver Communications won six
        awards, with four Awards of Excellence and two Awards of
        Merit:

        1. Awards of Excellence:

            a. Employee/Member Communication - "Be Healthy THR
               Calendar"

            b. Employee/Member Communication - "Order to Pay (OTP)
               Rollout"

            c. Publications - "Order to Pay (OTP) Rollout"

            d. Publication Design - "Be Healthy THR Calendar"

        2. Awards of Merit:

            a. Benefits Communication - "Be Healthy THR Calendar"

            b. Graphic Design - "Be Healthy THR Calendar"

    --  Kimberly-Clark Corporations' Barb Mayben received an Award of
        Excellence for Special Events, Internal or External for "Tour
        de Kimberly-Clark"

    --  Carol Barreyre and Virginia Brooks received an Award of
        Excellence for Media Relations: "Why is Steve Ballmer at CERA
        Week?"

    --  The City of McKinney's CoCo Good received two Awards of
        Excellence for:

        --  Marketing Communication - "Unique by Nature Branding
            Initiative"

        --  Strategic Communication - "Unique by Nature Branding
            Initiative"

    --  Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Texas' Kim Ernst received an Award
        of Excellence for Employee/Member Communication, "Our Dog Blue
        - Holiday Paws for a Worthy Cause"

    --  Halliburton's Cherlynn (C.A.) Glover received an:

        --  Award of Excellence for Special Events, Internal or
            External - "85 Years of Innovation"

        --  Award of Merit for Writing/Recurring Features or Columns -
            "From the President"

    --  The Susan Komen Foundation's Maureen O'Donnell received two
        Awards of Merit:

        --  Award of Merit: Annual Reports - "Pathways to a Promise"

        --  Award of Merit: Newsletters - "Frontline"

    --  Kimberly-Clark Corporations' Shannon Frederick and Angie McCoy
        won an Award of Excellence for Multi-Audience Communication -
        "Global Business Plan"

    --  Kimberly-Clark Corporations' Shannon Frederick won an Award of
        Excellence for Writing/Personality Profiles - "The GSLT
        Profile Series"

    --  Pat Chamberlain and Cindy Turek of The WHO Foundation and
        BeautiControl Inc. won an Award of Merit for Special
        Publications - "Well Beauty"

    --  The International Association of Assembly Managers' R.V.
        Baugus won an Award of Excellence for Writing/Personality
        Profiles - "Calling the Right Plays"

    --  Mary McMinn won an Award of Excellence for Writing/Speech
        Writing - "The State of the Company: Looking Ahead in 2005"

Dallas/IABC (www.dallasiabc.com) is the professional communicator's choice for practical education, information and professional development. The not-for-profit association serves 300 members in North Texas representing hundreds of corporations, agencies, entrepreneurs and not-for-profit organizations. For more information, visit www.dallasiabc.com, or contact Roy Miller at 972-716-4070 x235, or via e-mail at [e-mail].