From the New York Times:Brooklyn has given the advertising industry prominent executives like Jerry Della Femina, Philip B. Dusenberry of BBDO, Michael I. Roth of the Interpublic Group of Companies and John D. Wren of the Omnicom Group. Now, the industry is hoping to return the favor.
At a news conference this morning at Borough Hall, representatives of the industry who included Mr. Roth joined with Marty Markowitz, the Brooklyn borough president, to announce plans for a high school in Brooklyn that would be dedicated to advertising and media studies.
The goal is for the school, if approved by the Department of Education, to open to an estimated 400 students in September 2008.
The proposal for the school was previously disclosed in articles in The Daily News. The plans are being described as the advertising industry begins today a weeklong series of events, panels and seminars in New York known as Advertising Week 2007.
High School Drama + Adcenter Drama = HOLY CRAP!!
2 comments:
Woah, that is dangerous! It also means Adcenter (minus) legal drinking...or real, honest advertising...or a start in 'everything' early. ha
Great find from Ad Week 2007!
Can you imagine high school students sitting outside smoking their cigs, talking about Apple's 1984? It's bad enough we had to learn how to be social again...imagine this literally being the only thing they know how to talk about socially b/c it's all they've done for 10 years by the time they hit 25...
Intense.
Okay, maybe I'm being extreme.
err. The formula...
High School Drama + Adcenter Drama= HOLY CRAP!
Isn't it the same thing?...it's like schools like these make us revert back a couple generations.
Maybe they'll experience a hybrid of pre-school drama - kids crying, crapping their pants, and eating glue.
Yea!
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