Show Preparation Pays Off For Utah Tech Pair Weeks of preparation rehearsing from two to five hours a day paid off last weekend for Utah Tech students Anita Adams and Bryce Twitchell They won first place in state competition of DE DEX X Delta Epsilon Chi in the advertising campaign category The year 25 national organization is a marketing club open to college and university students Contests in several categories are held on the local state and national levels Other winners from Utah Technical College at Salt Lake Included Kim Jackson Sales Promotion Plan Ray Babcock General Merchandising sing Retail and Stacey Draney Jay Tomlin and Cleta Spratt Civic Consciousness The Civic Consciousness entry was Utah Tech's DEX Egg Drop held earlier in the school year on a wind-whipped wind freezing below-freezing day Eggs prepared in containers were dropped from the roof of the Technology Building to the lowest level to see which would survive without disintegrating Money raised from the event went to toga toa a charitable cause Additionally Salt Lakes Lake's community college had one second place Jan Smith-Kidd Smith Finance Credit and two third-place third contestants Erik Laver Sales Representative and Teresa Sundstrom Human Decision Making Merchandising l Kevin Williams was listed as a finalist for nationals in Hotel Honorable Mentions included Kevin Williams and Rick Walker for Ind Marketing Jan Smith Kidd Human Decision Making Human Relations Jay Tomlin Sales- Sales Representative Sarah Larsen and Lisa Nelson Fashion Merchandising andErick andErick and andErick Erick Laver and Jay Tomlin for Human Decision Making Fashion dising As winners winner Adams and Twitchell will now compete in the national competitions competitions competitions in New Orleans later in the spring as will the other first place contestants The detailed marketing campaign centers around the Forever Rose a product manufactured locally by Native Plants Inc Executives of met several times with Twitchell and Adams encouraging them in their quest for forthe forthe forthe the gold Twitchell who has earned an AS degree in graphic arts at Utah Tech is now working toward a certificate in marketing His expertise in graphics was evident in the professionally prepared packaging logo charts brochures and aids presented at the competition Adams receive her AS degree in marketing this quarter and plans on continuing her education at Salt Lake Community College next year Faculty advisers Dr Kathy Walton and Lynn pointed out that it was was the intense nse preparations and impressive rehearsal time fh that hat t caused used the winners r 1 t to hit the jackpot This and realization Wk exp experience on of what it takes s to tobe bev su successful will be invaluable to winners our throughout t their lives said Walton Both oth Dr Jr Walton and Curtis Curtis' were awarded plaques for Outstanding In ing Service to DEX for their leadership of last falls fall's western region leadership conference for DEX held in Salt Lake City |