CREATIVE HALL OF FAME

A proud history

The One Club inducted Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, advertising creative Paula Green and director/producer Joe Pytka into the Creative Hall of Fame on January 17, 2012 in New York City. The One Club also initiated an Educator’s Hall of Fame with its first inductee, Robert Lawton from Creative Circus in Atlanta. This historic occasion was celebrated at Gotham Hall with cocktails, dinner and a presentation ceremony chaired by David Lubars, Chairman and Chief Creative Officer at BBDO.

Mary Wells Lawrence
Inducted: 1969

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Called by Ad Age "advertising's most widely publicized symbol of glamour-success-wealth-brains-and-beauty" at the time of her Hall of Fame induction, Mary Wells Lawrence began her remarkable career in the early '50s at McKelvey's department store, and by 1966 had founded Wells Rich Greene. A veteran of Doyle Dane Bernbach and the youngest Hall-of-Famer ever at the time of her induction, Lawrence masterminded such legendary commercials as Benson & Hedges' "Disadvantages (Longer than king-size)" and Alka-Seltzer's "I can't believe I ate the whole thing."