School of Business In a New Home, Business is Booming Completion of the J. E. and l. E. Mabee Business Center by the opening of the fall semester was the highlight of the year for the School of Business. This $2 million Center was dedicated on October 14. The Center provided 13 well-equipped classrooms and a number of faculty offices. It also housed the Academic Computer Center, the American Studies Program, the Be lden Center for Private Enterprise Education, the Center of Management Excellence, and the Educational Media Center. At the close of the 1982 springsemester, Dr. David B. Burks, dean of the School of Business, was appointed director of the American Studies Program. Dean Burks also worked with the Development Office in so l iciting corporations and foundations, especially for support of the program offered in the School of Business. The School of Business continued to study plans for seeking accreditation by the American Assembly of Collegiate School s of Business and for adding a Master of Business Administration degree in accounting. A DEC VAX 11 /50 computer was purchased during the summer and installed in the Mabee Center. This became the heart of the Academ ic Computer Center which greatly enriched the program of the School of Business while serving all academic programs on campus. Enrollment in the School of Business continued to increase. At the beginning of the fall semester, 863 students, representing 29.3 percent of the undergraduate enrollment, indicated a major in the School of Business. Accounting had 214 majors; systems analysis, 177; management, 16~; and marketing, 95. Harding's Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) Economics Team won the Southwestern Regional Students for Free Enterprise contest in Dallas for the sixth time in seven year and, in July, won first place for the third consecutive year in the national contest, also held in Dallas. The 196/School of Business eight members of this team, under the guidance of Dr. Don Diffine, had completed an amazing number of projects in economic education and promotion of the free enterprise system. Harding' s Business Management Team competed well in the Emory University Management Games, although it did not win the competition as several previous Harding teams had done. Kathy S. Burson, a senior accounting major, was the recipient of one of 22 scholarships awarded on a national basis by the National Society of Public Accountants Scholarship Foundation . Susan Co l lins, another senior accounting major, received the George Washington Medal of Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge for her speech at the New Orleans Youth Forum on " America, Freedom and Youth." Perry Johnson was awarded a scholarship by the Society for the Advancement of Management Operation Enterprise and Allen Frazier was awarded a scholarship by the North Central Arkansas Association of Personnel Management. The Harding chapter of the Society for the Advancement of Management was designated a Century Club for having over 100 members and ranked among the top 10 chapters nationally based on activities. Harding students received national recognition by the Small Business Administration for the best prepared and presented case consultancies in small business. The Center of Management Excellence, directed by Dr. Robert Reely, was designated a federal small business development center by the Small Business Administration. Under the sponsorship of Dr. Diffine, a chapter of Phi Beta Lambda, national college honor society for business leaders, was chartered. Dr. Diffine received a Freedoms Foundation George Washington Honor Medal in the category of publ ic address. Dr. Reely was appointed as a ~ele- - Courtesy of Publicit y Office gate to the Governor's Small Bus iness Task Force. Members of the department were active in various civic affairs. David Tucker served as chairman of the White County Republican Party and as treasurer of the Searcy Kiwanis Club. In July, Charles Walker was recognized at the Civitan International Convention in Montreal, Canada, as a distinguished president for his leadership of the Searcy club. Dr. Reely conducted non-credit continuing education courses at night in supervisory management, time management, Chrisitan leadership, and in-
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