GCM honored by TOCA

It was a great time in the Greater Antillies for GCM last week as the magazine picked up 11 awards from the Turf and Ornamental Communicators Association (TOCA) at a ceremony held in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico.

I had the honor of representing the GCM staff at the awards ceremony, which capped off TOCA's 20th anniversary annual meeting, and was held about an hour east of San Juan. GCM garnered five first-place commercial publication writing awards and six merit awards.

Senior Staff Writer Terry Ostmeyer won first in the Turf Feature Article category for his article "H2No" from the April, 2008 issue, and Senior Manager of Creative Services Kelly Neis showed that her creativity isn't limited to the graphics area by taking first in the Headline Writing category for "H2No."

GCM contributor Bill Steele won the Environmental Stewardship Article category for "Calculating the value of green" from the February, 2008 issue; contributor Trent Bouts took first in the General Features category for his "Lone Rangers" piece from December, 2008; and longtime GCM contributor Peter Blais captured a first in the Product Information category with "Up, up and away" from the February, 2008 issue.

Other writing awards included a Operations Profile merit award for GCM's Associate Editor Darcy DeVictor for "In the brick of it" from the magazine's May, 2008 issue; a General Feature Article merit for GCM Senior Associate Editor Seth Jones' article "GCSAA's Ladies Man" from the July, 2008 issue; and two merit awards, one for Ornamental Feature Article and another for Headline Writing for John Fech, Ph.D., for his March, 2008 article "Too mulch of a good thing?"

Seth picked up another merit award in another category -- this time photography -- for "Honor the land" from the August, 2008 issue; and a merit went to GCM Senior Manager of Design/Creative Services Roger Billings in the Portrait/Personality category for his photo of GCSAA Chapter Liasons Jim Cummins and Steve Randall in the May, 2008 article, "Reaching out."

In addition, longtime GCM research section contributors Wendy Gelernter, PH.D., and Larry Stowell. Ph.D., were honored as TOCA's 2009 Environmental Communicators of the Year. 

Comments

[Thomas Lervik Jr.]

Jones, well done in your awards, you and the team keep up the great work!