One of the great joys of working at Chiat/Day was the eclecticism of the ideas to which we were all exposed. There was amazing art all around us. I even remember being back at the Biltmore when Jay brought in Gloria Steinem to talk to all of us. (She and Jay had a fight in front of all of us, as I recall.)
In the spirit of that eclecticism of ideas, I present to you this lecture about a brain scientist who had the rare opportunity to observe a stroke: her own.
Just wanted to let you know that my father, Mark Doyle, passed more or less peacefully on July 6, 2008, around 11 PM.
I would like to thank all of his friends and former colleagues for helping to make his last days happy ones. He spent his recent years entirely too isolated, and it meant a lot to him to be reminded just how highly regarded he still is among those who knew and worked with him. It means more than I can say to his family as well.
We've lost a good one, and he can never be replaced. Please keep him in your thoughts.
Nearly all of us have been touched by the effects of cancer. We have lost loved one, and in fact, all of us lost Jay to it.
The city of Charlotte (my new home town) host and annual 24 hour charity bike race that builds proceeds for cancer care and research through the Lance Armstrong foundation.
It’s a great event and a great way to give. If you are interested in playing a small part, here is the link for my current firm’s team. In order to donate you need to choose any team member. The contribution benefits the whole team. Click here.
This got forwarded to me, in a roundabout way, from Chuck Phillips. It's a three-year-old article from the New York Times about Jay's last wife, Edwina and her efforts to preserve Panama's eco-diversity ...
EDWINA VON GAL, a garden designer based in East Hampton, N.Y., first saw Panama five years ago, while cruising down the Panama Canal on a yacht owned by Jean Pigozzi, an Italian investor. She and her husband, Jay Chiat, the co-founder of Chiat/Day, the advertising agency, were heading for Bahía Honda, a quiet bay where Mr. Pigozzi was buying thousands of acres. "I loved Bahía Honda," Ms. von Gal said. "But I had no plans to return."
Hello,
I just saw your C/D alumni site and thought i'd throw my info forth.
I spent two memorable years in the Venice office 92-94 as an account guy, on the Nissan account. I was part of a small entertaining group that (re)started the direct marketing department at C/D. I worked with wonderful folks like: Gary Madonna, Maggie McDermott, J. Shawn Freedberg. Chris Mike, Laura Vielbig, Karen Knowles among many others. I have fond memories of futily trying to get C/D art directors (used to network TV spots), excited to create the new #10 envelope we needed designed ASAP for the new mailer campaign... wonderful years indeed.
My wife diana is an educator in the Pasadena Unified School District and we live in the hills of Altadena. I'm 4 years into working for Oversee.net in downtown Los Angeles, where I manage acquistions of domain name portfolios.
Well, here's my odd contribution for jay\day 2008.
Of all of the links I've discovered on YouTube, I think this is my all-time favorite. It's an excerpt from Lena Horne's show she performed at the Nederlander Theatre beginning in the summer of 1981, my second year in NY. It was amazingly hot and she didn't like air-conditioning, so everybody in the theatre was in agony. She seemed to thrive. The show, which was a concert, ran for over a year. I can't imagine anybody doing that today.
This is the finale. I don't know if you ever saw it, but she performed "Stormy Weather" in the first act very simply, just as she always did. Then, at the end of the second act, she sang it again, this time ripping the ceiling off of the theatre. Despite the memory of the heat in the theatre, I still get goosebumps watching this.
I went to see this with Eve Luppert. I was working at C/D at 666 Fifth Ave. and on this night, I was so grateful for being alive and in NY (thanks to Jay) so I could see this. I knew this was why I had come to the big city.
She was 67 when she did this. She turns 91 on the 30th of June.
The jay\day message? "If you believe, just as I believe in you."
Does anybody have a current email address for him? He retired from DDB a couple of years ago. And I can't find Colette Chestnut (a.k.a. "Mrs. Kuperman" either.)
One of my very own employees has turned up in my mailbox. The lovely and perky Karen Gross worked in the MIS department in NY. Welcome, Karen!
Hi Steve,
How are you? I haven't spoken to you in ages. I've reconnected with Rosann Calisi since I moved out to LA for 3 months. Also, reconnected with Scot Blakeley and Lauren Slaff on Facebook.
I saw that you and JP got certified. I'm a diver too and Fishpix is my site for my underwater photography. I just wanted to say hi and see how you were doing. You look happy. I'm VP of Advertising and Sales Operations at Move.com. It's an exciting opportunity for me and I get to live in LA for a while then back to NY.
I just spoke with Yvonne Smith, who was an art director at C/D going back to the days on Olympic Boulevard and I believe was still there when we moved from the Biltmore to the warehouse. (I could be wrong about that.)
At this moment, her contacts are glued to her eyeballs as she is a judge for the Primetime Emmys and she's watching reel after reel of comedies and dramas.
She says she's in the "Witness Protection Program" (she's joking, of course) and living a very happy life in Malibu. She is deeply involved in animal rescue programs, having rescued everything from a thoroughbred horse to a skunk. ("You only rescue one skunk in your career," she said. She says she has so much dog hair in her house, her housekeep blew up their Dyson vacuum cleaner!
