Bujan, Vincent
BUJAN, Vincent R.
Vincent R Bujan, a retired advertising executive, died in Our Lady of Perpetual Help Cancer Home on January 7th, 2021. He was 83. He is survived by his brother David Bujan from Boston Massachusetts. Mr. Bujan began his advertising career in 1962, in New York City with Batten, Barton, Durstine, & Osborn (BBD&O) – one of the world's largest and most prestigious agency's – working on the media planning and buying for First National City Bank and Consolidated Edison. He later moved to the J.M Mathis agency as account executive on Canada Dry Products and the Saab automobile. In January 1969 Mr. Bujan moved to Atlanta signing on with Harris & Weinstein Agency as senior account executive on the expanding Southern Airways account and would also direct the television planning and buying for the airlines newly acquired expansion markets of New York, Washington, Chicago, Miami, St Louis Memphis and New Orleans. After stints as vice president of marketing and executive vice president of two other Atlanta agency's he founded Vince Bujan Advertising, Inc. in 1975.
From its inception the Bujan Agency was positioned to serve the marketing communications needs of small to mid-sized "Blue Chip" companies. Its intent was to provide these businesses a unique combination: the marketing and advertising experience of a large national agency and advertising experience of a large national agency and the hands-on personal service and reasonable costs that could only be provided by a small local agency. For the next 20 years that combination helped a wide variety of Atlanta-based businesses meet their marketing and advertising needs.
Raised in Towanda, PA. Vince Bujan graduated from Towanda High School where he was a class officer and played football, basketball and on the championship, baseball teams of 1954 and 1955. He was a 1959 graduate of Elon College in North Carolina where he was vice president of Sigma Phi Beta fraternity and played on the baseball and track teams. He later did graduate work in marketing at City University of New York. Shortly after college graduation Vince Bujan was drafted into the army, most of his military time was spent with the 2nd infantry Division at Ft Benning, GA. While there he also did some sports page writing for the Columbus Ledger-Inquirer and a number of years later (July '99) one of his editorial writings was published by the Atlanta Journal Constitution. While in Atlanta, Vince Bujan was a member the Fairington and Willow Springs Country Clubs and the Atlanta Black Tie Club. In 1975 he became a charter member of the Atlanta Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and entertainment/publicity chairman for the first three Emmy Award Shows. In 1977 he was named to the NATAS Board and received an award from the academy for distinguished service. During his advertising career, ads produced by his firm, Vince Bujan Advertising, would receive three national awards for advertising excellence. In 2004, as a member of the YMCA near his home in Marietta, Vince Bujan would receive the Presidential Active Lifestyle Award issued by George W. Bush.
Over Vince Bujan's lifetime his astonishment of our world led to his love of travel. The more he saw of our world the more he wanted to see and led to his making many trips outside the USA to visit the major areas in the Far East, Middle East, Mexico, South America and Europe. This led to his greatest reward- sharing it with others through slide presentations to civic groups and personal friends.
