Adteacher

Leo Burnett - Chicago, ILL Thanks to our counselor at CCE, I met an agency professional who started his career in advertising about the same time that I did - he was born in 1961, so that makes him about the same age as my younger brother Scott. His name is Bret Stout, and I had him in my classroom as a guest speaker today. He remembers the learning curve that we all went through during the time that computers were making their entree into the creative world, and he described a lot of the same things that I feel have happened to me in my career. It was a great thing to have him reinforce the same things that I had said many times to my students before. Bret Stout began his career with a job in storyboarding at Leo Burnett in Chicago. His life took him from Los Angeles to Missouri to Texas to Chicago. That is quite a journey. He spent some time at Mizzou and then finished his studies at SMU. He went straight from SMU to Leo Burnett. From Leo Burnett, he switched to copywriting and

OK, so those last looming days before it all hits. What is there to panic about really? Surely not the piles of dirty laundry that I have to do or the grades that I need to record and report before the break. Or the fact that I think I have a precious doggy at my house that is in the process of losing her eyesight? I shouldn't worry about that stuff, right? And yet somehow I do. Why do we get so "wrapped up" in ourselves and our own problems at the holidays? It really should be a time to forget those things and just enjoy life. So I try. I have a great deal to face these last few days of class before our long holiday. I am taking them each one step at a time. I am looking forward to seeing the group of friends that will gather up in the studio on Thursday evening for our Ugly Sweater party. It should be great! I am also hopeful that I will still have time to shop for the things that are on my family's list - Mark likes to do it at the last minute, so we usually