May 4 - Manhattan Beach Alumni Reunion, Manhattan Beach Country Club, hosted by Chris Strickfaden (Business Administration '86), for more information contact Leslie or call (805) 756-2219
May 9 - Santa Barbara Alumni Reunion, La Cumbre Country Club, hosted by Rick Nightingale (Accounting '71) and Tom Brooks (Accounting '74), for more information contact Leslie or call (805) 756-2219
May 10 - 12 - PolyPack, Cal Poly...more information
May 11 - Packaging Advisory Board meeting. Orfalea College of Business
May 12 - Industrial Technology Advisory Board meeting. Orfalea College of Business
May 12 - Orfalea College of Business Annual Awards Banquet, Chumash Auditorium, 6pm
May 13 - IT Alumni Banquet, Embassy Suites Hotel, 6-9pm, contact Joe Fleming.
May 16 - Jeffrey Henley, Chairman of the Board, Oracle, Spanos Theatre/Cal Poly, Free Public Presentation, 2:30pm
May 18 - Sacramento Alumni Reunion, Serrano Country Club, hosted by Lori deMatteis (Business Administration '85), for more information contact Leslie or call (805) 756-2219.
May 20 - Day in the Park and Spring Banquet, Cal Poly Accounting Club. For more information or visit the web site
June 10 - Graduate Programs Commencement! 4-6pm, Performing Arts Center, e-mail Vicki Walls or call (805) 756-2637 for more information
June 10 - Commencement! 6:30pm, Upper sports field. Go to the commencement web site for more information. Kara Blakeslee (Marketing '87) will be our guest speaker. Click Kara for more information
June 15 - July 2 - MBA International Business Tour to the People's Republic of China. Visit the web site.
Sept. 25 - Fall quarter begins
October 19 - Dean's Advisory Council Dinner, location TBD
October 20 - Dean's Advisory Council meeting, 8am, PAC Pavillion Room
October 20 - Honored Alumnus Banquet, Chumash Auditorium, 6pm
October 21 - Cal Poly's Homecoming! Mustangs vs. South Dakota
NEWS FROM CAL POLY'S ORFALEA COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
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Four Orfalea College of Business graduate students won the overall prize for the National Intercollegiate Business Ethics Competition held at Loyola Marymount University’s Center for Ethics and Business in Los Angeles. Jessica Valpey (MBA), Sean Martin (MBA), Adrienne Lindsay (MBA), and Jim Erickson (MS in I&TS) competed against 24 teams (graduate and undergraduate), including teams from Loyola Marymount, New York University, Texas A&M, University of Southern California, University of Washington, Villanova and the US Naval Academy. |
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Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) earned Regional Champion status and won five special topic awards projects in the annual regional SIFE conference on April 5 in Long Beach. They will now advance to the 2006 SIFE U.S.A. National Exposition on May 21-23 in Kansas City, MO., where they will compete against other regional champion teams from across the country. For more information about SIFE, please go to their campus website |
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MBA students Derek West, David Brown, Rebecca Deeter, Kin Lam, and Emile Davis and Industrial Technology graduate student Jonathan Linker brought back a third-place trophy from the 42 nd International Intercollegiate Business Strategy Competition in San Diego in April. The event attracted 30 teams from 22 universities in the US, Canada, Great Britain, and the Middle East. |
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Students Lauren Ralyea and James Manley won first place as a school at the Second Annual California Collegiate Sales Competition at CSU Sacramento on April 7. Beginning January 6, James, Lauren, and several other students learned selling skills from marketing faculty Brian Tietje and Lisa Simon |
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Students in Cal Poly’s Human Resources Management Association placed fourth at the Pac West Regional HR Games at the University of Hawaii – Manoa in April. Congratulations go to Kim Zechnich, David Gentry, and JenniferChambliss, and their advisor, Rebecca Ellis. |
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Dr. James McKenzie conducted a Teaching Enhancement Workshop for Orfalea College of Business faculty on Friday, April 7. The workshop included information on enhancing strategies to promote learning, enhancing the questioning power of business students, and improving classroom tactics and moves. Dr. McKenzie is an international consultant. |
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The Cal Poly student chapter of the Wheelchair Foundation held their fifth annual benefit on April 1 st. This year’s team, pictured at left, has raised over $60,000 to send over 800 wheelchairs to Belize. The student chapter of the Wheelchair Foundation also received the Best Active Small Club award of $500 from the Interclub Council Pepsi Grant at Cal Poly. Congratulations on a job well-done team! |
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Marketing students compete in the Honda Fit Marketing Challenge as part of their senior project against 18 schools throughout the country. The students created an agency called Unique Conception Partners to develop a full scale marketing campaign. As the project nears the end they have put themselves in the position to win the competition with a grand prize of $5,000, which will go to Cal Poly. More information |
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Richard Dutra and Ryan Enfantino of the Atascadero Police Department were two of the 17 local law enforcement personnel who participated in Lezlie Labhard’s fiber identification workshop. Labhard conducted the workshop in the textiles laboratory to assist local law enforcement in crime scene investigation. |
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