Carlee C. Ball, Accounting/Finance senior, was awarded the Delta Sigma Pi Scholarship Key for Academic Excellence for 2006-07 at the Orfalea College of Business Awards Banquet.  Carlee has been on the dean’s list every quarter since fall 2003 and graduated with the highest GPA in the college.

Voted by students as outstanding faculty for the Orfalea College of Business for 2006-07 were (left to right):  Cliff Barber, Industrial Technology;  Janice Carr, Distinguished Teacher of the Year; Norm Borin, Marketing; Lisa Simon, Adjunct – Marketing; Tad Miller, Accounting; and Colette Frayne, Management.  Not pictured are tenured faculty Dan Villegas, Economics and Larry Gorman, Finance; and Adjuncts Clare Battista, Economics; Sharon Dobson, Finance; Michelle Bissonnette, Accounting; Bob Grosse, Industrial Technology, and Jere Ramsey, Management.

Honored by their concentrations as outstanding seniors for the Orfalea College of Business are (left to right):  Caleb Cross, Economics; Christopher Meadows, Human Resources Management; Shasta Palmer, Industrial Technology; Lisa Donaldson, International Business; Leann Tovar, Management; and Christiane Kragel, Marketing.  Not pictured are Adam Steinmetz, Accounting; Mattson Fernandez, Finance; and Timothy Aing, Information Systems.

Two happy faces of graduation – Vanessa Slavich, Marketing, will leave for London in August and one year with the Mountbatten Internship Programme.  Troy Monken, Accounting/Finance, has a position as a financial analyst with Apple starting in August.  Good luck to ALL of the Orfalea College of Business grads!

Meeting with Wal-Mart executives in China this month are MBA students (left to right) Lee Smith, MBA; Chris Carr, Associate Dean of Graduate Programs; Adib Assassi, MBA; Lotus Wong,Divisional Merchandising Manager, Shenzhen Operating Group - Wal Mart Global Procurement (Shenzhen, PRC); Patrick McGuire, MBA; and Peter Wu, EMP.