• hanges and impending changes in the faculty of the School of Business highlighted the 1986-87 school year. At the 1986 May meeting of the Board of Trustees, Dr. David D. Burks, Dean of the School of Business since it was organized in the fall of 1979 when Harding achieved university status, was chosen after a long search to succeed Dr. Oifton L. Ganus, Jr., as president of Harding University following the 1987 May graduation. At the beginning of the fall semester, Dr. JimHenderson as promoted to associate dean of the School of Business since as president, Dean Burks was increasingly involved in learning the tesponsibilities he would have in May. Dean Burks worked hard to raise $1 million in endowment for the "Clifton L. and Louise Ganus Scholarship Fund:' At the May 1986 Commencement, he received his second Distinguished Teacher Award. David Johnson took a leave of absence to work toward the doctorate in accounting at North Texas State University. Steve White continued his leave for doctoral study in systems analysis at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Dr. -Bob Reely was promoted to full professor and Lavon C~er was named associate professor. Mike Emerson joined the faculty as instructor in accounting. Bill Harris, local insurance salesman and long-time supporter of Harding, served in the fall as Belden Visiting Instructor in Sales; Mark Miller served as VISiting Lecturer in Finance. When Mark Van Rheenen resigned at the fall semester, David L. Allen joined the accounting faculty. For the fall semester, the School of Business had 881 declared majors with 270 of these in accounting, makes the school by far the largest academic unit on campus. It generated 8,273 hours of the 40,083 taught in the fall. For 1985-86, the school had 167 of the 531 undergraduate degrees granted. After graduating nine students from the M.A. program in accounting last year, the program had 25 students enrolled for its second year. David Tucker received second prize in the Olive W. Garvey Fellowship International Essay Contest by the Mont Pelerin Society for his essay entitled, ''The Sc~oo/ of Business Economics and Philosophy of Liberty;' which he read in St. Vincent, Italy. At the Fourth AnnU:al Bagwell Free Enterprise Symposium at the College of the Ozarks in Clarksville, he spoke on ''The Inseparability of Economics and Morality:' The American Studies Program brought eight outstanding speakers to campus, including Michael Novak, Robert Ferrell, Gene Stalijngs, Gifford Pinchot ill, Howard Phillips, Henry Kissinger, Peter Grace, and William Stevens. The program received the George Washington Honor Medal for Excellence in the category of Community Programs by the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge. The Harding University Economics Team directed by Dr. Don Diffine placed second in the national Students in Free Enterprise competition. Business students entered 21 events of the Phi Beta Lambda competition and placed 1st, 2nd, or 3rd in 16 of the events. For the second year, three senior accounting majors worked full-time with Arthur Young and _,,,, Company in an inventive intern program~ Behaving himself. During Organizational Work Behavior, Mr. Lavon Carter discusses hierarchy principles with Jennifer Price, a sophomore from Woodbridge, Virginia. Carter often had fall hayrides at his farm for the different social clubs on campus. - photo by Jerry Traughber. School of Business 185
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