Quiet, unassuming, and impeccably dressed. That's our Zachary Rosenberg. He now works at Horizon Media in LA which was just named Independent Agency of the Year. Read all about it by clicking here.

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... that looks a little familiar:

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A big hoot and howdy to former NY CFO Ernie Capobianco, who made a donation last night to the upkeep of this site and now joins our Hall of Fame over there on the right side of the screen. Ernie now lives in Dallas, where he is one of the owners of Sq1, an ad agency and web development company.

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Yes, today, January 9th, for one day only, it's David Butler's birthday. David was one of the greatest of all of Chiat/Day's copywriters. (He's retired now and living happily in sunny, batty Austin, Texas, with his wife, Margie.

I had known this at one time, but had forgotten that Dave is the son of one of the great cartoon voice artists of all times: Daws Butler. From his profile on Internet Movie Database. (And notice the resemblance.)

Daws Butler spent the greater part of his career as one of the premier voice-over actors in Hollywood- providing the voices for such well- known characters as Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quick-Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss, Jinks the cat, Dixie the mouse, Augie Doggie, Peter Potamus, Wally Gator, Hokey Wolf, Super Snooper, Blabber Mouse, Cogswell Cogs, Elroy Jetson and many others.

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Another one of Chiat/Day's legendary creative directors is retiring from Ogilvy. There is a large series of tributes to Steve on Facebook. Look for FRIENDS OF STEVE HAYDEN.

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This seems to be the day to celebrate former Chiat/Day copywriters! Weclome home to Steve Chavez, who worked at Chiat/Day in 1987-89, 91-92, and 95-97. Says Steve ....

chiat/day was my first big job in advertising, hired by lee clow and chuck silverman. i returned two more times on long, long freelance gigs that may as well been staff. i learned how to do ads thanks to chiat/day. i was ballsy enough to walk up to jay one day soon after i was first hired and ask him what makes chiat/day work. he told he had two responsibilities at chiat, to provide "the right environment and the right opportunities". the rest was up to us pain-in-the-ass creatives.

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In all the traveling I did for Chiat/Day, none was more fun than going to Australia when we acquired Mojo. Jeff Simpson was the CFO. (Everybody in Australia has a nickname. His was "Simmo.") Here he is something he found while cleaning out a closet.

Steve, I was cleaning out some old storage boxes and amongst the junk I found some gold. See the enclosed photo of a t shirt from circa 1989. My recollection is that they were given to all Australian staff to celebrate a visit from Jay. The amazing thing is it still fits me. I thought you may like to see if it sparks any memories from readers of the Jay/Day website.

My personal regards to Adam's lovely and gracious wife, Julie, and to their children (all grown up now) Adam and Clair. Adam just got married to the gorgeous and talented Amy. I've had the pleasure of entertaining Adam, Amy and Clair when they made various pilgrimages to New York City.

If anyone else has Chiat/Day memorabilia, please send a photo of it (preferably with you in it to me. My email address is in the masthead up top.

Steve Alburty
Your humble Jay/Day editor

P.S. You can leave a comment for Jeff just by clicking on the comment button at the bottom right of this item.

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I received a donation today from Bill Moreland, who's lived in Vancouver for the last 20 years. Bill was one of C/D's first employees, and you will find more of his story here.

About three years ago, I drove across the country and spent an evening and reminiscing with Bill and Chuck

Thank you, Bill!!!

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Watch this space, for there is news coming about Jay's sister (Loretta), niece (Lisa), AND the amazing Aunt Edith!

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My goodness, I feel like Jerry Lewis on Labor Day. (Wait a minute, isn't he enfeebled?)

(Until I can find the real thing, this is a photo of the David Butler who was the Governor of Nebraska from December 15, 1829 – May 25, 1891. Thank you to OUR David Butler for donating to the site. Dave now lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, Margie, where the bats fly out from under the Congress St. Bridge every night.

And more donaton kudos to Chuck Phillips, who has been one of the biggest boosters of this site. Chuck was Employee #1 of Chiat/Day and ran the Toronto office for many years. Now he lives in Malibu where he dotes on his grandson. There is no better photo that captures Chuck than this one.

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A quirky BBC Documentary about our own Man of the Year, Steve Jobs. I must say that one of the smartest distillations Jobs made of his own intentions was "the intersection of the humanities and technology."

Click here to watch it on YouTube.

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My goodness! Thank you so much for some generous donations from Nat Whitten and Fred Goldberg. I'm proud that the jayday community cares enough about the site to share the cost of its maintenance. You will see their names over there on the right side of this screen.

Nat is a gifted creative director and copywriter. He's also written several books of humor. "Secrets of the Superoptimist," "The Do-It-Yourself Constitutional Amendment Kit," and "The Book of Extremely Common Prayer." You can read all about them here.

As for Fred, he is a marketing and advertising consultant in the Bay Area, but for 10 years he was founder, Chairman, and CEO of Goldberg Moser O'Neill. And, of course, for eight years he was President of the San Francisco office of Chiat/Day San Francisco.

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