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1970s
James E. Archer ’74MBA of
Salem, Va., executive vice president of sales and marketing for Blue Ridge
Beverage Company, was promoted to the rank of Major General in the U.S.
Army Reserve’s 95th Division in October 2004.
1980s
Robert G. Pennington ’74Ox-’76C-’81MBA-’81L
of Atlanta is president and chief executive officer
of Willis Investment Counsel, Inc.
Jesus Diaz Jr. ’82BBA of Coral Gables,
Fla., is chairman and publisher of The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald.
Glenn D. Hall ’83MBA of Bedford, N.Y.,
is managing director of RBS/Greenwich Capital Markets.
Don B. Akridge ’84MBA of Canton, founder
of Citadel CPA and Wealth Care Services, is a registered representative
of 1st Global Capital Corporation from which he received an EAGLE Award
as a top financial advisor in December 2004.
Dara A. Donahue ’89MBA of Lowell, Mass.,
is associate director of development for Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
1990
Harold S. Lewis ’90MBA
of Lithonia is vice president and general manager of The Weather Channel
radio and newspaper syndication business.
Abram H. Nalibotsky ’90BBA and Gillian
Friedman of Beverly Hills, Calif., were married April 16, 2005. Nalibotsky
is a literary agent for The Gersh Agency.
1991
Stephanie Spirt Evenchick ’91BBA
and David Evenchick of West Orange, N.J., announce
the birth of a son, Zachary Matthew, on July 2, 2004. His older sister
is Rachel Isabel. Evenchick is a corporate lawyer with Phillips Nizer.
Gregory S. Fitzgerald ’91BBA of Austin,
Texas, is vice president of marketing with Tipping Point Technology/3Com.
Deborah Greene Hertz ’91BBA and Tim
Hertz of Cardiff by the Sea, Calif., announce the birth of a son, Zachary
Alexander, on Nov. 22, 2004.
Roy M. Martin Jr. ’91EMBA of New York
City is president and chief executive officer of Thomson Tax and Accounting.
1992
Christian W. Freilinger ’92MBA
of Leonding, Austria, is chief executive officer
of Cultor Asset Management which manages a long/short equity hedge fund.
1993
David J. Bloom ’93BBA of
Atlanta is vice president of corporate development with Vigilar, an information
security consulting firm and solution provider.
Jennifer Thomas Sherwood ’93BBA and Michael
Sherwood of Smyrna announce the birth of a daughter, Katherine Marie,
on Dec. 29, 2004.
1994
Laura Balser ’94BBA-’01MBA
of Atlanta is vice president and director of client
relationship management for Balser Companies.
Kathy McLane Gersch ’94MBA of Bellevue,
Wash., is vice president, chief management officer and retail general
manager of Drugstore.com.
Todd D. Reale ’94MBA of Nashville, Tenn.,
is an account executive with Intelliworks, a software company that develops
and sells customer relationship management systems for higher education.
1995
Jonathan S. Bolen ’95MBA of
Scottsdale, Ariz., is chief information officer for the development, quality
assurance, and technical support services teams at Trax Retail Solutions,
a company specializing in loss prevention, store operations control, and
profit optimization solutions for the retail industry.
Robert C. Goeltz II ’95BBA and Megan
M. Goeltz of Thousand Oaks, Calif., announce the birth of a daughter,
Kaitrin Elizabeth on July 11, 2004.
Stephen T. Leake ’95MBA of Atlanta is
a civilian working for the Department of Defense in Fallujah, Iraq. Leake
oversees all of the rebuilding done by the Army, Marines, and SeeBees
in Fallujah, Ramadi, and the Sunni Triangle.
Seth I. Shaifer ’95BBA of Hoboken, N.J.,
a student at Brooklyn Law School, who participates in the Brooklyn Law
Review, will work as a summer associate at Heller Ehrman.
1996
Vildan T. Bekirov ’96MBA of
Dolgoprudny, Russia, works for Transammonia AG in Lachen, Sweden.
Herman H. Hou ’96BBA of London, United
Kingdom, an integration analyst with Centrica, received a master of science
degree from Newcastle University in December 2004.
Erin A. Nicholson ’96MBA and Alcides
Ortiz-Ferrari of Bethesda, Md., were married Nov. 1, 2003 in Washington,
D.C. Nicolson is director of development for the Tennis Center at College
Park.
K. Yen Vu Thi ’96MBA of Hanoi, Vietnam,
is a senior business consultant at the Danish financed project, Support
to Industry Restructuring and Business Development, at the Ministry of
Fishery.
Leslie Grossman Tourial ’96BBA and Robert
Tourial of Atlanta announce the birth of a daughter, Hannah Shira, on
July 15, 2004. Tourial is an accountant with Tarpley and Underwood.
1997
Eileen P. Andersen ’97EvMBA and
David Andersen announce the birth of a daughter, Bridget Leigh, on Nov.
8, 2004. Her older sister is Rose.
Uros Kepic ’97MBA of Smartno, Slovenia,
is the chief financial officer of Tetra Pak / Tetra Brik Business Unit
in Moscow.
Kaha Kiknavelidze ’97MBA of Moscow,
Russia, is an oil analyst with Trokia Dialog Research.
Joseph S. Schab Jr. ’97MBA of Canton,
Mass., is director of corporate business development and marketing for
Viacom. Schab recently navigated his media consulting firm, Isis Information,
Inc., to acquisition after launching the U.S. State Department’s
Office of Broadcast Services.
Rino Schena ’97EMBA of Coral Gables, Fla.,
is the founder of Premier Partners, LLC, a wealth management solutions
partnership.
Andrew Percher ’97BBA and Laura D. Zeldin
of Dunwoody were married Oct. 30, 2004. Percher is supervisor of gift
and customer operations at Federated Systems Group in Duluth.
1998
Roy Ben-Yoseph ’98MBA-’98L
and Shannon Rafal of Ashburn, Va., were married
in March 2005 in Washington, D.C. Ben-Yoseph is director of email and
communication products at America Online.
N. Brentley Cobb ’98MBA of Atlanta is
vice president of wireless for Earthlink.
Evan S. Glasser ’98BBA and Hilary
S. Weisfelner ’97C of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.,
were married Feb. 5, 2005 in Hollywood, Fla. Glasser is an attorney.
Kyle P. Lynch ’98MBA of Oakland, Calif.,
is manager of procurement of plastics for The Clorox Company.
Ulugbek Muslimov ’98BBA of Almaty, Kazakstan,
is head of the project finance department with JSC Kazkommertsbank.
Patrick J. Rice Jr. ’98MBA and Virginia
P. Rice of Dunwoody announce the birth of a son, Braeden, on Oct. 27,
2004. His older brother is Albert.
1999
Sarah Burke Barnhart ’95C-’99MBA
and Bradley S. Barnhart ’00MBA
of Golden, Colo., announce the birth of a son, William Stanton, on Feb.7,
2004.
S. Clay Beers ’99BBA of East Point is
controller for LowCountry Barbecue Catering.
Lisa Hedden Edler ’99MBA of Lawrenceville
is senior manager of national customer marketing for the Customer Products
Division of Georgia Pacific.
Andrea Lauer-Rice ’99MBA of Roswell,
formerly with IBM, is the founder of Lauer Learning.
James T. Paulk ’94C-’99MBA-’99L
and Jenn Paulk of Marietta announce the birth of a daughter, Elisabeth
Anne, on Jan. 10, 2005. Paulk is director of finance and operations for
the Georgia State Golf Association.
Ryan B. Wiesemann ’99BBA of Nashville,
who received a doctor of dental medicine degree and a master of science
degree in oral biology from the University of Louisville in May 2004,
is an orthodontic resident at Vanderbilt University.
2000
Bradley S. Barnhart
’00MBA.
See Sarah Barnhart ’95C-’99MBA.
Hector G. Campos ’00MBA
of Atlanta is director of program planning for the Turner Entertainment
Group.
Justin H.
Cohen ’00BBA
and Anna A. Goldstein of Brooklyn, N.Y., were married Dec. 19, 2004 in
New York. Cohen is an associate with the law firm of Gusrae, Kaplan and
Bruno.
Scott M.
Hendrickson ’00BBA
of Rowayton, Conn., departed for a five month backpacking trip around
the world in February 2005 and will return to New York City to attend
Columbia University Business School in the fall.
R. Shane
Jackson ’00MBA
and Celeste Jackson of Cumming announce the birth of a son, Langston Shane,
on Jan. 22, 2005.
Jocelyn K.
Johnson ’98Ox-’00BBA
of Stone Moutain completed work on certification in human resources.
Sarah E.
Kurz ’00MBA-’00MPH
of Washington, D.C., is a program manager in business and product development
for MacroGenics, a biotech company.
Abby H. Spatz ’95C-’00EvMBA
of New York City is vice president of account services strategy for Momentum
Worldwide, a division of Meann-Erizkson Worldgraph, IPG.
2001
Adam Garner ’01BBA
of Owings Mills, Md., is an associate attorney with
the law firm of Baxter, Baker, Sidle, Conn, and Jones in Baltimore.
Habib A. Hazzan ’01MBA of Nazareth, Israel,
is manager of fourteen legal, policy, and business advisors at the Adam
Smith Institute.
Jacobo Hochman ’01MBA and Molly O.
Sheridan of Germantown, Tenn., were married May 22, 2004. Hochman is a
senior marketing analyst with FedEx Services.
G. Michael Jopp ’01MBA and Eszter Kobusch
of Stuttgart, Germany, were married in June 2003. They announce the birth
of a son, Mark-Oliver, on Aug. 13, 2004. Jopp is a product manager with
Smart GMBH at DaimlerChrysler.
2002
Susan E. Elbert ’02MBA
and Aaron Tregoning of Winston Salem, N.C., were married Oct. 11, 2003
in Connecticut. Elbert is a marketing manager at Champion Athleticwear,
a division of the Sara Lee Corporation.
Marisa J. Gottlieb ’02BBA of New York
City is an analyst specializing in retail with Accenture.
Justin J. Milrad ’02MBA of Los Angeles,
Calif., a store manager with The Home Depot, is founder of www.pacifictoner.com,
an online business selling printer, fax, and copier toner.
2003
Ato Y. Arkaah ’03MBA
and Chamnan Arkaah of Decatur announce the birth of a son, Kow Nkensen,
on March 25, 2004. Arkaah is a lead programmer analyst with UPS.
Patrick L. Lechtenberger ’03MBA of Philadelphia
is manager of global marketing research for pediatric vaccine products
with Merck and Company.
S. Justin McCall ’03BBA of Greenville,
S.C., is an intelligence analyst with the U.S. Marine Corps in Stuttgart,
Germany.
Ryan C. Spillers ’03BBA of Sacramento,
Calif., works for Maloof Sports and Entertainment on marketing and branding
projects for the Sacramento Kings, Monarchs, and the ARCO Arena.
Robert S. Sternot ’03MBA of Roswell
is a corporate development manager with UPS.
Wesley V. Taft ’03MBA and Emily A. Morton
of Atlanta were married on Aug. 14, 2004 in Big Canoe. Taft is vice president
of sports and live event marketing for I Loop Mobile.2004
J. David Dean ’04EMBA and Kathleen Dean
of Decatur announce the birth of a daughter, Eleanor, on March 11, 2005.
Her older brother is Samuel.
Walter Igelsboeck ’04MBA and Oxana Smoushkova
of Munich, Germany, were married Jan. 22, 2005 in Wels, Austria. Igelsboeck
is a project manager with SCA Tissue Europe, a Swedish enterprise.
Lucky Jain ’04EMBA of Atlanta is executive
vice chair for the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University and Emory
Children’s Center.
Michael N. Zusman ’04MBA and Ula Zusman
of Savannah announce the birth of a son, Ziv Horwitz, on March 1, 2005.
Deaths
James M. Rudder Sr. ’40BBA-’42L
of Washington, D.C., on Feb. 25, 2005. Emory survivor:
Catherine E. Rudder ’69C.
Kenneth A. Oates ’41BBA of Miami on
Jan. 10, 2005.
John K. Chrimes ’47BBA of Lewisville,
Texas, on Nov. 9, 2004.
Philip A. Farkas ’47BBA of Silver Creek
on April 5, 2004.
O. Floyd Feely Jr. ’47BBA-’51T of
Lookout Mountain on May 5, 2004.
Leonard T. Michalove ’49BBA of Atlanta
on Feb. 8, 2005.
Thomas H. Brown ’51BBA-’54L of
Greensboro, N.C., on Feb. 9, 2005.
William B. Pope ’55BBA of Atlanta on
May 28, 2004.
W.O. Robeson ’55MBA of Alpharetta on
Sept. 3, 2004.
J. Lawrence Kaminsky ’57BBA of Savannah
on Aug. 7, 2004.
James D. Massey ’59BBA of Issaquah,
Wash., on March 18, 2005.
Thomas C. Law III ’64MBA of Delray Beach,
Fla., on Dec. 10, 2004.
Esley O. Anderson III ’72MBA of Charlotte,
N.C., on Dec. 11, 2004.
William C. McFee Jr. ’78BBA-’78L of
Atlanta on March 11, 2005. Emory survivor: Zoe McFee
Hicks ’63Ox-’65C-’76L-’83L.
Barbara Kotlewski Jackson ’89MBA of
Norcross on March 6, 2005.