UT Students Recognized on AAF Honor Roll

Mario Marzette is looking for "that a-ha moment" in the day of a creative professional. With his camera and his enviable dreadlocks, he follows around the creative staff at GSD&M and tries to find out what inspires a great idea. Mario loves making videos, whether corporate, product or documentary. His latest documentary featured his journey to UT-Austin. Mario says he owes a lot to Graduate Advisor Gary Wilcox and Professor Deborah Morrison in UT's advertising department.

Dr. Wilcox sought him out and encouraged him to apply for AAF's Honor Roll, and Dr. Morrison won't let him give up. When Mario feels like he's burning out, she rekindles his spark of inspiration. After Mario graduates in May, he'll be looking for a job that furthers his dream of making videos professionally.

Johnie Blasingim hopes to write a book and own a bookstore. She wants to surround herself with pop culture and to be a lounge singer, a good cook, and later in life, a good mother. (She belly dances, too.) To start with, though, Johnie wants to be a copywriter in a creative advertising agency. In the meantime, she has been busy collecting honors and scholarships. The Chickasaw Nation awarded her a scholarship to attend UT-Austin, and she also received the President's Achievement Scholarship. According to Johnie, her inclusion on the AAF Honor Roll is recognition of the Chickasaw tribe.

4/24/2001