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PhDs
James D. Edwards, Ph.D. ’53, was one of 120 local Georgia citizens who carried the Olympic torch across the U.S. on June 18. He was selected by Coca-Cola and was the only representative of the University of Georgia nominated to possess the torch on the day it arrived in Atlanta, host of the Centennial Olympic Games in 1996.
James Don Edwards, Ph.D. 53, was inducted into the Accounting Hall of Fame on August 13th. Edwards, the Tull Professor of Accounting Emeritus, retired from the University of Georgia in 1998 as interim dean of the Terry College of Business. Edwards was only the 29th academic in 52 years to be elected to the Accounting Hall of Fame.
Ralph C. Hook Ph.D. ’54, retired as professor emeritus of marketing at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
P. John Lymberopoulos, MBA ’59, Ph.D. ’65, served as Athens liaison for the U.S. Olympic Committee for the 2004 Olympic Games. Born in Athens, Lymberopoulos was able to translate and provide information about modern Greece. He also volunteered as a translator for the Greek Olympic delegation at the 1996 games in Atlanta. For 40 years, he has been a teaching at Colorado University at Boulder and is a professor emeritus.
Allen T. McInnes, PhD 66, MBA 60, BBA 59, has been named Dean of the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. He is currently the president and CEO of TETRA Technologies Inc., an oil field service company, and sits on the McCombs School Advisory Board.
John M. Burnham, Ph.D. 70, retired as professor emeritus from Tennessee Technological University after 25 years. John has made the business school a beneficiary of his family’s charitable remainder unitrust. Thank you!
Thomas Cook, PhD 72, joined the EnvoyWorldWide Incorporated Board of Directors. Cook currently serves as chairman and CEO of Replane.
James L. Strachan, Ph.D. 76, left Case Western Reserve University after 24 years of service. He currently has his own firm specializing in consulting and executive education in accounting and finance.
Larry Mannis, PhD 75, began working with Sapient Corporation as a Project Manager in April.
Linda Gerber, PhD 83, is now the Assistant Chair for the Department of Marketing and the Associate Director of the Center for Customer Insight at UT-Austin.
Tapan Mallik, PhD 85, has been appointed vice president of technology for Supply Chain Consultants, a provider of advanced supply chain planning solutions.
James Musumeci, BBA 73, MBA 81, and PhD 87, was named among ten faculty members at Southern Illinois University’s Carbondale campus with top-notch performance. Musumeci is an associate professor of finance and last year won his college’s award for outstanding graduate student teacher.
James M. Collins, MBA 86, PhD 91, accepted the position of Director of the School of Management at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks.
Frank Fehle, MBA 93, finished the PhD program in finance at UT-Austin in May, and is now an assistant professor of finance at USC.
Lynda Kilbourne, PhD 90, was promoted to Associate Professor of Management and granted tenure last spring semester at Xavier University in Cincinnati.
David A. Thomas, PhD 90, was promoted to Vice President and Management Supervisor of Carlson Marketing Group in August.
Priscilla Slade, PhD 90, is the President of Texas Southern University.
Pat Hopkins, PhD 95, is the John F. Barna Faculty Fellow at Indiana University in Bloomington.
James Don Edwards, PhD 53, last year attended his 50th consecutive meeting of the American Accounting Association, a rare-if not
unprecedented- accomplishment (he's also a past president of the AAA). In another claim to fame, Edwards, the Tull Professor of Accounting Emeritus who retired from the University of Georgia in 1998 as interim dean of the Terry College of Business, was inducted into the Accounting Hall of Fame in 2001. The Accounting Hall of Fame was established in 1950 at Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business and has since honored only 69 influential and respected accountants from academe, accounting practice, government and business.
David Alan Thomas, PhD 90, Executive Vice President of Loyaltyworks Inc., has relocated from Miami to Atlanta.
Liza Stavchansky de Lewis, BBA 95/Ph.D 00, and her husband
William Lewis are pleased to announce the birth of their twins, Joshua
and Helena, in March, 2003.
Daniel Laufer, BBA 94/Ph.D. 02, was quoted in a Wall Street
Journal article on the fallout from Mad Cow Disease in North America.
He is an assistant professor of marketing at the University of
Cincinnati.
Zekiye Selvili, MBA 94, PhD 02, is now an associate professor
of finance at California State University in Fullerton.