Dr. Bill Dean, an icon at Texas Tech University for almost 50 years, will be honored by the Lubbock Advertising Federation as its 56th recipient of the American Advertising Federation Silver Medal Award.
The event is slated for Tuesday (July 21) at McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center, near the corner of 19th and University on the Texas Tech campus. Activities begin with happy hour at 6 p.m., followed by dinner and a reception at 7. Jim and Patti Douglass will serve as emcees for the event.
A Lubbock native, Dean holds three degrees from Texas Tech, where he was student body president and a member of the Red Raiders’ baseball team as an undergraduate. He joined the Tech faculty in 1967 as director of student publications and assistant professor journalism, launching a career that continues today. He has been named Best Teacher at Texas Tech nine times in the annual student poll, and twice has received the President’s Teaching Award for Excellence.
In addition to serving as associate dean of the College of Media and Communication, Dean also has spent the past 37 years as executive vice president/CEO of the Texas Tech Alumni Association, which named the most recent expansion of the McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center after Dean and his wife, Peggy. The Deans have two sons and two granddaughters.
The American Advertising Federation (AAF) established the Silver Medal Award in 1959 to recognize those persons who have made outstanding contributions to advertising, and who have been active in furthering the industry’s standards, creative excellence and responsibility in areas of social concern.
AAF’s Lubbock chapter has been honoring individuals at the local level since 1961.
(Press release from the Lubbock Advertising Federation)
