Professional Achievements in Journalism
• 1st woman journalist on staff of San Francisco Examiner sports department (wrote a weekly wintersports column)
• Sole San Francisco Examiner staff writer at the Innsbruck Winter Olympic Games
• 1st woman president of the Northern California/Nevada Ski Media Association
• Creator and chair of the Ski Media Association’s annual Charlie Proctor Award banquet, held at a prestigious SF location
and honoring a local individual who has made a major contribution to wintersports
• Began and/or grew in-house marketing creative departments for 3 major companies:
– college textbook publisher (Wadsworth Publishing Company/Thomson Learning)
– business-to-business computer accessories direct mail cataloger (Inmac)
– trade publisher of best-selling mainstream consumer book series (IDG Books)
(imprints: …For Dummies, Frommer’s Travel Guides, Webster’s, etc.)
• Winner of 3 Gold Awards and 3 Silver Awards for copywriting and copy directing, Catalog Age magazine
• Winner of Award of Merit for creative directing, Western Art Directors Club
• President, Gamma Alpha Chi Advertising Sorority, San Jose State University