WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1999

Marketing association honored

By Nicole Martinez

On-Line Forty-Niner

Based on its outstanding performance during the past school year, Cal State Long Beach's American Marketing Association contingent was named Chapter of the Year and participated in the AMA's 21st Annual International Collegiate Conference last week in New Orleans.

CSULB was selected out of 160 chapters with 2000 students and was also awarded the Outstanding Chapter Communication Award and the Outstanding Membership Activities Award, according to AMA officials.

Receiving two first place awards was an honor, said Ted Liotopoulos, CSULB public relations director of AMA.

"We've really been working hard, we've done tons of stuff," he said. "We created a chapter plan report and annual report [stating assets and debts].

The chapter expressed its personality by creating full color pictures of The Pyramid and the 50th anniversary logo with a beach theme in a trade show type of environment.

"We all wore grass skirts, Hawaiian shirts, lab coats and sunglasses over our suits," Liotopoulos said. "It was a perfect mix of professionalism and Long Beach [attitude]."

CSULB was also selected out of 134 chapters to conduct two presentations - Chapter Communications and Chapter Programming.

The university was represented by eight current AMA executive board members, along with a future member, John De La Haye.