The students' selection as the nation's most promising minority advertising students by the American Advertising Federation's Mosaic Council on Multiculturalism was announced in the Feb. 10 issue of Advertising Age magazine.

Selected for the federation's superstar status of the 25 Most Promising Minority Students in The Nation was LeRone J. Cohen, a graduating senior from Aiken. Selected for the federation's runner-up honor roll of 42 other promising ad students were: Bianca Denise Crawford, a senior from Anderson; Angela Diamond, a senior from Sumter; and Andrea Glover, a senior from Fort Lee, N.J.

Their selection represents the sixth consecutive year USC advertising students have been chosen for the honors, including eight national winners and 13 honor roll winners since 1997.

Of Cohen, one of this year's most promising students, nominator and advertising faculty member Jon Wardrip of the USC School of Journalism and Mass Communications said, "This is a bright, confident young man who's been taught the value of education. He dreams of significant career goals and aspirations and has the intelligence and work ethic to realize them."

The recognition program is part of the federation's effort "to create a stronger, more effective advertising industry that will build stronger companies and, ultimately, a stronger nation," said J. Andrea Alstrup, corporate vice president of advertising with Johnson & Johnson who co-chairs the AAF's multiculturalism council.

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