Public Service & Awards

Awards, Acknowledgments

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“Polished Apple” Award Recipient (2008 and 2006), honoring commitment to students at California State University, Northridge (CSUN)

Nominated USC Parents Association Teaching and Mentoring Award (2006)

Outstanding Citizen Award (1993), Los Angeles City Council ("There’s Nothing Cool About Fireworks")

Distinguished Professor (1999) California State University, Northridge

Joseph Roos Community Service Award (1993), Public Relations Society of America

Extraordinary Service Award (1993), Wilshire Chamber of Commerce

Awards for "Best Community Program" (1991 & 1992), Publicity Club

Award from California League of Cities (1991)

Belding Award (1990), Advertising Club of Los Angeles

PRSA Award (1990)

 

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“Carpe diem. Quam minimum credula postero.”

“Seize the day is best known maybe because of the scene in Dead Poet’s Society.  Other translations include, “Harvest the day”, “Pluck the day” and “Snatch the sleeve of today.” “The point is take advantage of the present as much as possible.” “That last line means trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.”

— Horace (65 BC to 8 BC)

“I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people but that of boring them to death.”

— Leo Burnett

Don seems lucid about the fakeness of the awards process; he acknowledges that it “doesn’t make the work any better.”

Londre’s crusade to stop illegal fireworks use in Los Angeles has led to one of the most effective pro-bono advertising campaigns here.

Los Angeles Business Journal

Thanks for all you did to make our Annual Association event happen! You’re really an ace at this stuff!

Terry Tegnazian, president, Westwood Hills Property Owner Association (WHPOA)