History
Ad Club Seattle started in 1909. Seriously. We’ve been continuously operating in this city with slightly kooky, fun-loving creatives a long time.
Timeline
1909
Ad Club Seattle founded by elixir peddler Phineas Farnswaggle. What began as a thinly-veiled way to evade taxes quickly turned into a life-long passion to serve advertisers.
2011
To more closely align with AAF National, and with a little urging from said parent organization, Ad Club Seattle formally adopts AAF Seattle as its new name, refocusing its efforts more broadly on the audience it more evidently finds itself serving, Seattle’s creative community in general.
2013
AAF National rebrands the ADDY Awards as the American Advertising Awards.
Past Presidents
These people stepped up to lead our club in good times and bad. They gave the extra effort to keep the boat afloat. Respect is due. Thanks to you, fine leaders!
Renee Peterson, 2012-2014
Britt Peterson, 2011-2012
George Riddell, 2007-2011
Todd Visdal, 2005-2007
2004–05 Diana Fryc
2002–04 Tom Baker
2001–02 Scott Dodson
1999-01 Michael Richard
1998-99 Sophie Marciano
1997-98 Maria Lamarca-Anderson
1996-97 Rick North
1995-96 Mark Scott
1994-95 Catherine McConnell
1993-94 Frank Sunseri
1992-93 Jan Leonard
1991-92 Don Piercy
1990-91 Bob English
1989-90 Mimi Kirsch
1988-89 Pete Delauney
1987-88 Warren G. Payne
1986-87 Penny Taylor
1985-86 John Cheshier
1984-85 Ric Rosa
1983-84 Darrell Oldham
1982-83 Ron Gibbs
1981-82 Ed McLellan
1980-81 Terri Kirkland
1979-80 Rick Trent
1978-79 Hank Barber
1977-78 Charles Heinrich
1976-77 Pete Hatt
1975-76 Jay Bratton
1974-75 David Bond
1973-74 Lee Bartlett
1972-73 Gorgon R. Ilse
1971-72 Rich Pasko
1970-71 Arnold E. Wallstrom
1969-70 J. Morton Cone
1968-69 Walter Kilgore
1967-68 Robert M. Capeloto
1966-67 Jack Ehrig
1965-66 Emmett Marshall
1964-65 Peter Hemp
1963-64 Dick Basom
1962-63 Bob Karolevitz
1961-62 Lex McAtee
1960-61 Bob Hurd
1959-60 Don Starr
1958-59 Reinhart Knudsen
1957-58 Frank Welch
1956-57 Wallace J McAtee
1955 Trevor Evans
1954 Peter Lyman
1953 Wendel Broyles
1952 James Abbott
1951 Roger Rice
1950 Thomas Sheehan
1949 Harry Pearson
1948 Russell W. Young
1947 Beale McCullough
1946 W.B. Stuht
1945 Harry Abney
1944 Web Harrison
1943 Franklin McCrillis
1942 George Webber
1941 Hugh Feltis
1940 Anthony F. Moitoret
1939 Dudley Brown
1938 Norton W. Mogge
1936-37 Hal King
1936 Russell W. Young
1935 J.H. Leatherman
1933-34 Chester Womer
1932-33 Web Harrison
1931-32 Lee R. Double
1930-31 Warren Kraft, Sr.
1929-30 Loyd Spencer
1928-29 Hugh Baird
1927-28 C.E. Fisher
1926-27 Richard P. Milne
1925-26 How J. Ryan
1924-25 Tome Jones Parr
1923-24 Loyd Spencer
1922-23 W.G. Mohr
1921-22 H.G. Stibbs
1921 R.E. Morgan