Congratulations to the following thirty-five students from the evening program who were awarded their MBA degrees at the Commencement Ceremony on Thursday, December 14, 2006:

Oluwaseyi Adu
Robert A. Arends
Patrick Brendel
Jeremy Bunton
Mongkon Chaiyongsin
Dana T. Chapman
*Carl Davis
Randenko Dosan
Suzanne Ferguson
Edward Fowlkes
Tashani Gaskins
*Mindi Kiger Hartman
Yuan-Fang Ho
John Howard
*Kay Jacobs
Robert Kelly
*John Knapke
Hukook Lee
*Zui-Chih Lee
Veera Madhure
Elizabeth McKinney
*George McSwain III
Blanca Montilla
Sera Moschali
Jana Newsome
Shalini Pai
Shelly Peterson
Peter Rolland
*Stavros Simos
Maureen Sintich
*Charles Stafford
Charles Stanley
Wendon “Buddy” Vail
Najeeb Yaser

*Degrees completed in August 2006.

As the 2006 recipient of UNCG’s Alumni Teaching Excellence Award, MBA Program Director, Dr. Vidyaranya Gargeya was the commencement speaker. His address - Pizza, Picasso, and the Pyramids: The Journey to Excellence Continues! – made the commencement exercise extra memorable for this group of MBA graduates.

At the Bryan School’s Awards and Recognition Ceremony the previous evening, MBA graduates Robert A. Arends, Edward Fowlkes, Shelly Peterson, and Peter Rolland were inducted as new members of the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society and Robert Kelly, who had his MBA studies interrupted when he was called to serve in Iraq, received the Outstanding Graduate Student Award.

-January 2007