Advertising students are award winners from the American Advertising Federation. At the recent American Advertising Awards Show, Des Moines chapter, Drake junior Bailey Zander won a Gold American Ad Award as well as Student Best of Show. Additionally, these other Drake advertising students won awards:

• Kelsea Graham—1 gold and 1 silver
• Brooke Vaske—1 gold
• Jeffrey Hersheway—1 silver

All gold award winners’ entries are automatically entered at the regional-level competition, which includes student work from Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri. This is the second time in three years that a Drake student won the Student Best of Show award.

Junior Sam Fathallah also won a silver award for work he did while interning at a local ad agency.

—Dorothy Pisarski, School of Journalism and Mass Communication