Vickie walked in to Burkholder Flint in 1991 bringing her signature blend of homespun humor, tactical brilliance, personal warmth and relentless work ethic. It didn't take long for her to become the heart and soul of the agency.
She delighted, and occasionally annoyed, her teammates with her easygoing manner and quirkiness; delivered results for client after client; and mentored dozens of younger colleagues along the way.
She was a person of fierce devotions––to her family, work, church, charities and OSU basketball. Vickie made lifelong friends of clients and coworkers, was a valued board member to the Ronald McDonald House of Central Ohio, and eventually, became a business owner and a grandma.
Vickie fought and beat a difficult 2003 cancer diagnosis—over and over again. One oncologist gave her a month. By sheer force of will, her battle lasted until 2017, and was as heroic as it was low-key. Most who worked with her never knew of the multiple surgeries and massive radiation doses she endured.
We're proud to have worked beside Vickie, and she'll always have a place in our hearts and minds. And, on the door of Burkholder Flint Easterday.
Facilitate / generate concept / campaigns / content / copy for clients.
Guess. Make stuff up. Repeat.
TV: Better Call Saul, Modern Family, Game of Thrones, NCIS, The Daily Show, Drunk History, Pardon the Interruption, any and all football and basketball games, History Channel, Food Network.
Yeah, I watch too much television.
Radio: NPR, ESPN, Pandora
Books: The Good Spy: The Life And Death Of Robert Ames
"Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen
Fruit: Black Raspberry
Cream: Chocolate or Banana
Oversee company financial operations.
Bean Counter
Glenn Beck, Fox News, NCIS
"Be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle."
Pecan
Oversee and develop the visual components of projects, from concept through design and production, for a variety of media.
Visual prognostication, graphic divining and the occasional font exorcism.
Watch: Damages, Justified, 48 Hours Mystery, American Greed, Law & Order, Criminal Minds, Holmes on Homes and This Old House.
Read: WSJ, ADWEEK, AdvertisingAge, CNN on web and Spin magazine.
Listen: Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Porcupine Tree, Wilco, Cracker, Iggy Pop, Charlatans, Spoon, Beck, Godsmack, Heaven and Hell, Metal, Nu Metal, Nu Prog.
Stream: radioparadise.com
"I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things." Tom Waits
My mother-in-law's cherry pie
Lead marketing and advertising planning and implementation; plan and buy media campaigns and schedules.
I hunt for people and help serve them the largest piece of pie possible; sometimes with whipped topping and sometimes not.
Talk radio; TV - Fox News, live sports, Netflix
YouTube, Facebook
Weekend Dispatch
Southern Living magazine
My mom's lemon meringue
Coordinate job progress with AE's and creative department.
Wrong door!
The Walking Dead, Alaska The Last Frontier, Life Below Zero, Long Island Medium, Face Off, Survivor, Criminal Minds. QFM96. Nicholas Sparks books.
"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not."
Oprah Winfrey
Peach
Develop and implement media relations, social media and community relations efforts for clients.
Relationship builder, brand ambassador, content creator, advocate, researcher, reader, editor.
Google news, Columbusundground.com, Dispatch.com, PR Daily, Business First, US Weekly, Facebook, DVR (Modern Family, The Walking Dead, The Mindy Project, Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey, Nashville), and clients’ industry trades/websites/blogs/social media chatter
"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there."
Yogi Berra
Peach