Jul 10, 1995

CF2GS

Applause Inc., based in Woodland Hills, Calif., has selected direct response advertising agency CF2GS to handle its direct marketing division's account. One of the nation's leading gift companies, the nearly 30-year-old Applause has a portfolio of classic licensed merchandise, including characters from Disney, Looney Tunes and Sesame Street, as well as entertainment properties featuring Pocahontas, Batman Forever, Star Trek and Star Wars. CF2GS was hired to develop a direct response program to increase sales for this year's holiday season and will handle additional projects in 1996. CF2GS Managing Director Bill Fritsch will oversee the account, with support from Account Supervisor Mimi Morton in the agency's San Francisco office. CF2GS, a wholly owned subsidiary of True North Communications, has offices in Seattle, Portland, Reno and San Francisco.

Jul 07, 1995

Morton Clarke Fu & Metcalf

John Morton, Steve Clarke, Mari Fu, Susan Metcalf and Newell Bossart, five veteran investment professionals formerly associated with Kidder Peabody & Co., and Al Robertson, formerly a managing director with Piper Jaffray, have founded a new Seattle Investment firm specifically geared to serving Northwest investors. Morton Clarke Fu & Metcalf Inc., the first full-service investment house to be formed in the Seattle area in 15 years, will focus on municipal bond trading and underwriting, fixed income and equity sales, and portfolio structuring and management. Morton was managing director with Kidder Peabody, heading its municipal bond operation in the western and northwestern areas of the United States. Clarke, who has 27 years of experience in fixed income sales, served as a senior vice president at Kidder Peabody, working with both institutional and high net-worth individual investors. Fu was a vice president at Kidder Peabody, where she had 10 years experience as a municipal bond trader. She is fluent in Mandarin. Metcalf's responsibilities as a Kidder Peabody vice president focused on underwriting and research in the municipal department. Also a vice president with Kidder Peabody, Bossart's concentration was with individual accounts in equity sales and asset management. Robertson managed the Northwest municipal bond department for Piper Jaffray from 1978 until 1993.

Bank Northwest

William Urien Jr. has joined Bank NorthWest, scheduled to open in September at 100 Grand Ave., Bellingham, as senior vice president and credit administrator. Urien has more than 20 years of experience in commercial and savings bank experience, most recently as vice president and senior credit officer at Bellingham's Whatcom State Bank, where he supervised an increase of the bank's loans from $9 million to $52 million. He joins three Bank Northwest officers: Arnie Wright, president and CEO; Michael O'Connor, senior vice president and CFO; and Wayne Young, vice president and manager. The bank's $4 million to $5 million capitalization is currently being raised by its organizers/board of directors.

Jul 06, 1995

World Trade Club

Helina Bojarski, managing director of Bojarski & Associates, has been named president-elect of the World Trade Club, a non-profit association for international trade professionals founded in 1946. Other officers elected for the 1995-96 year are: Paul Calderon of ABN AMRO Bank, vice president; Gary Ishaam, First Interstate Bank, treasurer; and Cindy Firmani, Alliance Strategies, executive director. Eleven new directors are joining the organization's board this year: Chris Bell, Protrade International; Karen Dowdall, City University; William Flannigan, Asia Bridge International; Guy Freeman, Seafirst Bank; Susana Gonzalez-Murillo, U.S. Bank; Marilyn Kilman, The Rockey Co.; Karen Perret, Attorney at Law; Martha Ries, Bogle & Gates; Amy Sommers, Culp, Guterson & Grader; Lucy Velez, United Parcel Service; and Chris Wahlborg:, C.C. International.

Showplace Kitchen and Baths

The National Kitchen and Bath Association has recognized Fay Liner of Redmond's Showplace Kitchen and Baths with an honorable mention in its 1995 design contest. She will also have her work featured in the Fall 1995 issue of Woman's Day Kitchen and Bath Planner.

Dain Bosworth

Minneapolis-headquartered regional brokerage and investment firm Dain Bosworth has promoted Bill Green to manager of Nasdaq trading, Mark Louiselle to manager of the block trading desk in Minneapolis, and Evan Olsen to manager of the Seattle Nasdaq trading desk. Green, managing director, has been head of the firm's Seattle equity trading desk. Louiselle, vice president, had been a trader on the block trading desk. Olsen, also a vice president, had been a trader reporting under Green. The three have more than 30 years of combined experience.

Brooks Sports

Brooks Sports, a Bothell-headquartered international distributor of athletic footwear, apparel and accessories, has named Bruce Pettet as vice president of sales and marketing, USA. Pettet comes to Brooks from California-based Performance Sales West, where he was principal/partner the past eight years. Under his guidance, Performance Sales West was sales agency of the year for Brooks for the last five years.

Jul 03, 1995

CF2GS

CF2GS, a direct response advertising agency with offices in Seattle, Portland, Ore., San Francisco and Reno, Nev., has promoted four people to the newly created post of associate creative director. They are: Virginia Saunders and Rick Peterson, former senior copywriters; Tom Scherer, previously a senior art director; and John Holm, former senior art director/film director. CF2GS has also added three staff members. Troy Nebecker has been hired as a digital production artist. He comes form EvansGroup where he held the same position. Jennifer Ward-Lamont has been hired as an account executive. Before joining the agency, she worked for eight years as direct marketing manager for McCaw Cellular Communications. Christina Kelly has also been hired as an account executive. Most recently, Kelly was an associate executive with Herring Newman in Seattle.

Tee Time Reservations

Robert L. Downing has been named regional vice president of Tee Time Reservations (TTR) Course Scheduling Management Systems & Service. TTR, a nationwide reservation service for golfers, has produced a program which integrates hardware, proprietary software and a sophisticated telecommunications system that allows golf courses to optimize tee sheet scheduling and maximize course utilization. Dowing's initial efforts will focus on golf courses throughout Washington, Oregon, and Vancouver, B.C. Downing joins TTR from Inside Golf Magazine, where he was associate publisher. He has also held various sales management positions with local publishing companies.

Tacoma Ad Club

The Tacoma Ad Club has elected its new officers and board members for 1995-1996. Officers are: Sandi Gobroski, Sandi Gobroski Communications, president; Don Doza, the News Tribune, president-elect; Angela Duarte, the Lakewood Journal, recording secretary, Scott Larsen, Bill Larsen and Associates, corresponding secretary, and Jerry Graddon, Southgate Press, treasurer. Other board members include: Jon Martin, Blue Zoo Graphics, Peggy Longnecker, Schultz Group Communications, Amy Garcia, KCPQ-TV, Beth Pascarella, Westco Marketing, and Dana Endicott, United Way of Pierce County. Darrell Doepke will remain on the board as past president.

Bombar Public Relations

American Cancer Society of Washington Inc., in partnership with Safeco Corporation, has awarded Seattle-based Bombar Public Relations a $50,000 contract to create a communications program to support the Breast and Cervical Health Project (BCHP), a federally-funded program administered locally by the Seattle-King County Department of Public Health. The program provides free mammograms, Pap tests and clinical exams to women who have low incomes or no insurance. The contract's primary objective is to reach older African-American women and Latinas in King County who have not had breast or cervical cancer screenings, and to attract new prospects into community clinics offering the free exams. Collaborating as diversity managers for Bombar Public Relations on the program are Linda Kennedy, King TV veteran and Public Information Officer for the Seattle-King County Health Department, and non-profit communications specialist Connie Rivera.