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Terry FYI | May 2008 | Vol. 1, Issue 2

The Unlikely Rock Star

Photo of Denny Beresford
What would happen if Bono or Paul McCartney was the director of your music school? “That’s what you’ve got in [accounting professor] Denny Beresford,” says Al Hazard, Deloitte’s lead audit partner with Fannie Mae. Yet the former FASB chairman who helped fix the financial turmoil at MCI-WorldCom and Fannie Mae is as unassuming as he is exceptional. More »

Emmelhainz, Vandenberg receive faculty awards
The Terry College presented its 2008 Outstanding Faculty Awards to marketing lecturer and undergraduate academic coordinator Margaret Emmelhainz (Teaching) and management professor Robert Vandenberg (Research). More »

MBA alumni reminisce in Athens
MBA alumni were welcomed back to Athens April 18-19 for a Reunion Weekend. Graduation classes that were marking a special anniversary gathered with their classmates for a night (or two) on the town at a favorite old hangout or dinner destination. More »

Q&A with Damon Evans at Terry Third Thursday
UGA Athletic Director Damon Evans (BBA ’92, MEd ’94) is the latest addition to the library of webcasts and podcasts recorded at the Terry Third Thursday speaker series in Atlanta. More than 50 TTT webcasts, going back to 2003, are available to watch online. More »

Terry may be calling you
The Annual Fund drive is in full swing with students calling 10,000 Terry supporters. They include Diane Bloodworth (BBA ’82), who remembers a Foundation-supported trip to New York that opened the world of finance to her. More »

Full-time MBA ranked a top graduate program
The full-time Terry MBA program maintained its top 50 national ranking, as it has every year since the start of the decade, according to U.S. News & World Report’s new edition of America’s Best Graduate Schools. More »

Audit team places in top 5 nationally
A team of Tull School accounting majors reached the finals of the KPMG National Audit Case Competition held April 14 in New York. Among the five finalists, UGA and the University of Virginia were the only repeat finalists from last year’s competition. More »

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Dean's Message
Robert T. Sumichrast

Dean Robert SumichrastThe college’s Alumni Awards and Gala provides an elegant setting appropriate for recognizing the alumni who have excelled in their careers while remaining loyal to Terry and their university. This year, we will recognize four outstanding individuals. More »


Alumni Spotlight
Aflac CEO Dan Amos

Photo of Alumni Dan AmosThe case can be made that Dan Amos (BBA ’73), who hatched the Aflac duck and whose supplemental insurance giant has seen 18 consecutive years of 15 percent (or better) earnings-per-share growth, is the best CEO of his era. More »


Student Spotlight
Best ‘seller’ Kevin Killips

Kevin KillipsBy placing third at the National Collegiate Sales Competition, marketing major Kevin Killips gave Terry its best finish ever at the contest, which puts students through elaborate role-playing sessions to test their salesmanship. More »


Research Spotlight
Maric Boudreau, MIS

Maric BoudreauPersonal computers, servers and telecom networks produce as much greenhouse gas as all the world’s airplanes. Who knew? Maric Boudreau is one of the researchers studying what various industries are doing to lower emissions. Call it "Green IT."
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Edited by David Dodson
Office of Marketing and Communications
Terry College of Business
The University of Georgia
ddodson@terry.uga.edu
www.terry.uga.edu/communications

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