Business Schools Strive for Excellence Rowan . Harding's Alpha Epsilon chapter of Delta Mu Delta, national honor society in business adminis tration, hosted the second annual awards banquet on April 8, 1985, with the assistance of Arthur Young and Company of Little Rock as corporate sponsor. After the induction of 33 students into the Society , awards were presented to the outstanding students in each academic discipline of the School of Business and to the outstanding student in the School. Debbie McAfee received the Business and Office Education Award; Lori Pryor and Tim Johnson, the Management Award for juniors and seniors, respectively; David Burton , the Marketing Award; Darrell Cheatham and Steven Stack, the Computer Information Systems Award for juniors and seniors. respectively ; James McCreary and Linda Gibson, the Accounting Award for juniors and seniors, respectively; Brian Miller, the Scholarship Award in Management ; Brant Holladay, the Wall Street Journal Award as the outstanding business major; and Nancy Smith, the Delta Mu Delta Key Award for having the highest G.P.A. among business majors. Later it was learned that Dru Denham and Kevin Thompson were recipients of $600 scholarships for 1985-86 from the national office of Delta Mu Delta . For the second consecutive year, the Harding American Studies Program, directed by Dean Burks , was awarded the George Washington Honor Medal for Excellence in the category of Community Programs by the Independent 1985 National Awards Jury of the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge , Pennsylvania. Accounting graduates excelled in placement with 25 of the 55 graduates in accounting accepting jobs with "Big Eight" accounting firms such as Arthur Anderson, Arthur Young, Ernst & Whitney, and Price Waterhouse, with offices located in 11 different states. An additional five accounting graduates accepted jobs with Pennzoil in Houston. Electronic Data Systems in Dallas and Detroit employed 15 graduates who majored in computer information systems and five additional CIS majors were employed by Sperry Rand . Many graduates in management or marketing accepted jobs with Wal-Mart, Inc. or Beall 's Department Store. Several business graduates accepted positions in Minneapolis, Minnesota, or Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as vocational missionaries to help build the church in those cities. Dr. Ken Johnson sponsored this outreach . Susan Kemp and Mel Sansom were awarded the Master of Science in Accounting degree on May 12, 1985, at the end of the first academic year it was offered, becoming the first studentS to receive this new degree from Harding. Eight additional students received the degree on August 16. Seven of these acBig business. Kristi Th orson , a senior from Hot Springs and Scott Ragland, a senior from Warren , Michigan prepare for their business simulations class . Simulations provided business majors with opportunities to plan for , experiment with and discover the consequences of corporate level decisions. - photo by Karen Roseberry . cepted jobs with "Big Eight" accounting firms, two went into college teaching, and the other went to the mission field. Dr. Jim Henderson, director of the master 's program, commented , "We are very pleased with the progress made by this historic first year class. " The 1985-86 American Studies Lecture Series brought eight informed speakers with quite varied backgrounds to campus to provide a very interesting and infor- , mative series of presentations. Those speaking during the spring were Commander John Creighton , a space shuttle pilot; Clarence Pendleton, Chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights ; Dr. Thomas Peters, author of the books , In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best Run Companies and A Passion for Excellence: The Leadership Difference; and Dr. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations . David Tucker was appointed coordinator of the Walton Scholarship Program for Central American Students. This program, established in the fall of 1985 with a $1.2 million grant from Sam Walton, founder and chairman of WalMart Stores, Inc., and with matching funds up to $1 million provided by the U.S. Agency for International Development, will provide scholarships to disadvantaged Central American students over the next five to eight years. George Oliver joined the faculty in the fall as the first Del Belden Visiting Professor of Sales. Mr . Oliver, a Harding alumnus, had more than 30 years of business experience including nine years as a sales executive with General Motors and a period of time as civilian Chief of Personnel with the U.S. Army TankAutomotive Command in Detroit. Also joining the faculty in the fall were David Perkins and Walt Smith, each with business experience after completing the M.B .A. degree. David Tucker returned from a two-year leave at the University of Arkansas for doctoral study in economics, lacking only the completion of the dissertation. Steve White was granted a leave of absence for 1985-86 to continue work on the doctorate at the University of Arkansas. Lavon Carter, Mark VanRheenen , and Charles Walker have completed course work for the doctorate and continued work on the dissertation while teaching full-time loads.111[ School of Business 279
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