Card Carriers Business Cards Are A Forum For Expressing Your Professional Personality

Thu., Sept. 28, 1995

By Paul Turner srpaulturner@gmail.com

Judging of The Slice’s Fourth Annual Business Card Contest had at least one thing in common with previous years.

It was a totally, unapologetically subjective process. (What else?)

But this time around, there also was something different. This year we went outside Slice Headquarters to find a judge for what we like to call “The most boring contest in newspaperdom.”

So if you were one of the 177 readers who submitted a card and it didn’t win, don’t get mad at us. Blame Sandra K. Jackson. She made the final selections.

Actually, we don’t want anybody getting on her case. She was a good sport, even after being presented with hopelessly vague instructions about dividing the entries into two categories - sort of plain and not so plain - and about just picking ones she liked.

Jackson, a Veradale resident working on her MBA at Gonzaga University, earned this honor by winning The Slice’s Ridiculous Moments in History Photo Caption Contest back in August.

She waded through metal cards, wooden cards, chocolate cards and lots and lots of attractive business cards that could have been winners but weren’t.

As always, the broad range of occupations reflected by the entries served as a useful reminder that not everyone in the Spokane area is an auto parts dealer or a nurse.

Winners will receive gift certificates. And to everyone else, we would offer the following bit of consolation.

If anyone ever asks us if we know of someone who installs rain gutters or rebuilds diesel engines, we’ll be pleased to say that, yes, as a matter of fact, we do.

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