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TableofContents
The
Executive
Fall 2005/Winter 2006
VOLUME 10 ISSUE 2
Published twice annually in the
spring and fall for alumni and friends
of The University of Alabamas
Culverhouse College of Commerce
and Business Administration.
Dean: J. Barry Mason
Editor: William R. (Bill) Gerdes
Designer Senior: David Jones
Contributing Writers:
Bill Gerdes,
Chrishan Emonina
Contributing Photographers:
Laura Shill, Rickey Yanaura,
Chrishan Emonina
4 Deans Message
6 New Round of
College Ads Ready
to Roll
8 Faculty News
New faculty appointments

announced.
Insurance journals founded by UA
finance professors top the list of
elite journals.
Conerly is new head of
Information Systems, Statistics,
and Management Science.
Pecorino named Hayes Professor of
Economics.
Office of Development,
Alumni and Corporate Relations:
Charlie Adair, Diane Harrison,
Nidia Spence, Susan Newman,
April Thornton, Pam Junkin
14 Five Inducted into

32nd Alabama
Business Hall
of Fame
22 Student News
UA EMBA graduate hits the big

time with state-of-the-art technology.
UA chapter of Alpha Kappa Psi is
one of countrys best.
Graduate interns with prestigious
Heritage Foundation.
24 Development News
Carl and Ann Jones give $1
million to UA.
Jim and Doris Nelems make

$100,000 gift to College.
28 Alumni News
Faculty
spend
vacations
abroad
12
Richard Anthony named CEO,

president of Synovus.
Shane Spiller named
president of Spiller Associated
Furniture Stores.
30 Alumni Notes
OntheCover

and Business Administration
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Alton Sizemore, Culverhouse
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School of Accountancy
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the FBI. When it comes time
to make the arrest, I want to
be there, Sizemore says. But
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which no one gets hurt.
Fall 2005 cba.ua.edu
DeansMessage
elcome to the Fall 2005/Winter 2006 issue of

The Executive, the flagship publication of the
Culverhouse College of Commerce. I also
invite you to visit our recently revised website at
http://www.business.ua.edu, a major part of our ongoing
effort to serve students, faculty, staff, alumni, and others
who need information about our programs and activities.
We invite your feedback and suggestions for improvement.
Excellence is always our goal, and we want our website to
reflect this goal by being an efficient and useful source of
answers to your questions.
The Culverhouse
Our primary objective
College of Commerce has
long been a major provider is to help students
of quality business educaachieve their potential
tion as evidenced by our
in becoming highly
long list of notable and
skilled employees
highly successful alumni,
some of who are profiled in in modern business
this magazine. Indeed, our
alumni are a major strength enterprises.
of the College, providing
financial resources, job opportunities, and sources of current
business knowledge for each new generation of students.
In addition to loyal alumni, an excellent learning environment results from a strong team of bright, motivated
students; concerned faculty capable of engaging students in
developing the skills required in the 21st-century economy;
and a caring group of advisors, departmental personnel,
and technical staff who work together to engineer courses,
activities, and services that enable each student to reach his
or her goals.
Our primary objective is to help students achieve their
potential in becoming highly skilled employees in modern
business enterprises. A strong classroom experience is at the
core of this objective. We continuously evaluate and revise
our curriculum to make sure we are on the cutting edge of
business education. Along with state-of-the-art facilities and
excellent support staff, our curriculum is a major factor in
explaining the success of our graduates.
Business education is more than sitting in a classroom. In addition to outstanding classroom instruction,
the Culverhouse College of Commerce provides numerous
opportunities for students to develop the problem-solving,
communication, and leadership skills demanded by employers. Active learning through technology, cases, projects,
internships, and other experiences expands the learning
opportunities afforded our students. Students have an
opportunity to learn from some of the top scholars in their
disciplines. Most courses, from freshman to Ph.D., are taught
by faculty who are dedicated both to quality education and
to expanding our understanding of business and economic
issues. Scholarship is contagious. It creates knowledge and
informs those who are exposed to it about the current state
of our society, its problems, and its future. A careful blend
of scholarship, outreach, and classroom instruction creates an

advantage for our students that is hard to duplicate.
In closing, let me say that we will continue our unrelenting quest for quality. We will do what is necessary within the
ethical boundaries to be recognized as a national player on
the business education front. Thank you for being a part of
making this happen, and I look forward to visiting with you
when you are on campus.
Yours cordially,
J. Barry Mason, Dean and

Thomas D. Russell Professor of Business Administration
CulverhouseNews
Hey, come visit the new website
New look, new menus, new photos, campus tour
f you have visited the Culverhouse College of Commerce

website lately (http://www.business.ua.edu), you no doubt
have noticed a number of changesa new look, new
drop-down menus, rotating photographs, and a Headlines
feature with the latest College news. The more observant
browser may notice that the address has been changed from
cba.ua.edu to business.ua.edu, but either address will get
you to the same place.
Most of these changes are the work of William Barry,
Web and instructional developer with the Culverhouse
Technology Group.
The biggest change has been the installation of new
software that allows the various contributors to the website
to access the areas they are responsible for and make the
changes directly, thus making the information contained on
the Web much more up-to-date and usable for visitors, Barry
said.
William Barry has done a great job of updating the website and making it much more user friendly and contempo-
rary, said Rob Ingram, senior associate dean, who directed

the website overhaul. Research shows that when todays
prospective students are seeking information about colleges
and universities they are interested in attending, they rely
very heavily on the Internet and websites. This also is true
of prospective faculty members, so it is extremely important
that we present a comprehensive and up-to-date website to
the public and one that is logical and easy to use. I think we
have hit the mark with the new version.
A website, of course, is a work in process and is never
finished, Barry said.
You have to continue changing, updating, adding new
features, and keeping up with the competition. But I think
now we have the responsibility for changing things in the
right hands, the people who know the minute something has
changed and can go to the website and update the page.
More than 1,322,422 visits were made to the Colleges
website over the past year, the busiest months being
September, October, and November. v
CulverhouseNews
Message From The Dean
eep your eyes open for another round of advertisements featuring alumni of the Culverhouse College
of Commerce. Ads are scheduled to run in Alabama
Alumni; BusinessAlabama; The Wall Street Journal, southeast edition; BizEd, the magazine of the AACSB International, the
business school accrediting organization; and various newspapers around the country.
The new ads will feature Marillyn Hewson, president of
Kelly Aviation LP, a joint venture between Lockheed Martin
Aircraft and Logistics Centers, and GE Aircraft Engines
(GEAE); Tom Hough, Southeast managing partner for Ernst
and Young and a member of the College Board of Visitors;
Shaun Alexander, former Tide running back now with the
Seattle Seahawks; Paul Clark, president and CEO of ICOS
Corporation, Bothell, Washington; Katie Marchiony, field associate with Stockamp and Associates and a member of the 2005
USA Today All-USA College Academic Team; and Richard
Anthony, CEO of Synovus Corporation.
This is a very impressive lineup, said J. Barry Mason,
dean of the College. It demonstrates the wide breadth and
depth of our alumni base and certainly underscores our tagline
of Start here, go anywhere. We are very grateful and honored
that each person was willing to participate. Each has a very
important success story to tell.
The ads are once again being created and placed through
Sullivan-St. Clair Advertising and Public Relations of Mobile. v
CulverhouseNews
Hines continues Bruno

Business Library
tradition; wins UA
excellence award
odd Hines, a business reference librarian at the

Culverhouse College of Commerces Angelo Bruno
Business Library, has received the University of
Alabama Library Leadership Boards Faculty Excellence
Award, the third time since 1999 the award has been
presented to a Bruno librarian.
The award recognizes outstanding contributions to
University libraries and the profession of academic research
librarianship. The award was
created in 1999 by the UA Library
User service is a
Leadership Board.
major emphasis
Hines has been a business
for the Bruno
reference librarian at the Bruno
Library since 2002. He is a
Library, and
uniquely qualified business
Hines has a
librarian with a masters in business
administration from George Mason
great reputaUniversity and a master of science
tion as being a
in library science from the Catholic
librarian with a
University of America.
I knew I wanted to be a
strong service
business librarian, and the Bruno
orientation.
Library has a strong national
reputation in the business library
community, Hines said.
The Bruno Library is a state-of-the-art library that serves
the business information needs of the students and faculty of
the Culverhouse College of Commerce and the Manderson
Graduate School of Business. User service is a major emphasis
for the Bruno Library, and Hines has a great reputation as
being a librarian with a strong service orientation.
I really enjoy what I do, and I try to keep up on current
business events and research, which I believe help me to
provide good service to Bruno Library patrons, Hines said.
The Culverhouse College of Commerce faculty and
administration are very supportive of the business library.
The library is located within the business school complex and
houses the Colleges Sloan Y. Bashinsky Sr. Computer Center,
which provides business library and computer laboratory
services for seamless access to information for business
students, faculty, and staff.
I enjoy working with all the different types of patrons,
Hines said. Undergraduate students usually need very
different research assistance than the business professors, and
the users from the Tuscaloosa business community usually
Todd Hines
have very different research needs than the academic users.
The UA Library Leadership Board chooses award
recipients based on their contributions to the UA libraries
and to the overall profession of academic research. The
award provides a stipend and a plaque to the winner. v
FacultyNews
Faculty Appointments Announced

Dean J. Barry Mason
announced the following
appointments:
Young J. Boozer Teaching Excellence
Faculty FellowDr. Bruce Barrett
Fred and Martha Bostick Faculty
FellowDr. Michael D. Conerly
Derrell Thomas Endowed Teaching
Excellence Faculty FellowDr. Kim
Sydow Campbell
Derrell Thomas Endowed Teaching
Excellence Faculty FellowDr.
Alexander E. Ellinger
James I. Harrison Family Endowed
Teaching Excellence Faculty Fellow
Dr. J. Brian Gray
James D. Nabors Instructional
Excellence Faculty FellowDr. David
Mothersbaugh
J. Reese Phifer Faculty FellowDr.
Frank H. Page Jr.
Front row, from left: Dr. David Mothersbaugh, Dr. Kim Sydow
Campbell, Dr. Michael Conerly; back row, from left, Dr. Paul Pecorino,
Dr. Brian Gray, and Dr. Bruce Barrett
Dr. Bruce Barrett is an associate professor of statistics. His specialty
areas are linear regression, data analysis
and regression diagnostics, statistical
computing, and simulation.
He received a bachelor of science
from the College of Charleston and
both a master of science and doctor of
philosophy from Clemson University.
Among Barretts publications are
articles in the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Management Science,
Journal of Computational and Graphical
Statistics, and Computational Statistics and
Data Analysis. His professional interests
include exploratory and graphical meth-
ods of analyzing real data sets, robust

resampling methods, rank-order weights,
and multivariate methods.
Dr. Michael D. Conerly is professor of statistics and director of the
applied statistics program.
His specialty areas are regression analysis, data mining, statistical
computing, graphics and data visualization, process control, multivariate
quality control, forecasting, and statistical education.
He received his bachelor of science
from Lamar University and his master
of science and doctor of philosophy
from Southern Methodist University.

Conerly has published numerous
papers dealing with the practical use of
statistics to solve real-world problems.
He has published articles in publications such as Technometrics, Journal of the
American Statistical Association, American Statistician, and Journal of Statistical
Computation and Simulation. He has
directed nine dissertations in applied
statistics and served on more than 40
dissertation committees in other areas
at The University of Alabama. He was
appointed as an adjunct research scientist at the UAB Cancer Center in 1998.
He is a member of the American Statistical Association.
FacultyNews
Dr. Kim Sydow Campbell is
associate professor of management
communication.
Her specialty areas are environmental communication, health literacy
and communication, leadership communication, publication management,
qualitative research methods, and technical communication.
She received her bachelor of science and her doctor of philosophy
from Louisiana State University.
Campbells research has appeared
in Business Communication Quarterly,
College Composition and Communication,
Health Care Management Review, Environmental Professional, Journal of Business
Communication, Journal of Business and
Technical Communication, Journal of
Technical Writing & Communication,
Management Communication Quarterly,
Technical Communication Quarterly,
and Technical Communication. She
has served as editor in chief of IEEE
Transactions on Professional Communication since 1997 and is a former faculty
member at the Air Force Institute of
Technology and at Auburn University.
Dr. Alexander E. Ellinger is
an associate professor of marketing and
supply chain management. His specialty areas are logistics, supply chain
management, and customer service.
He received his bachelor of
science from Bryant College and
his doctor of philosophy from the
University of Georgia.
Among Ellingers publications are
articles in Business Horizons, Human
Resource Development Quarterly, Industrial Marketing Management, International
Journal of Logistics Management, and
International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management.
He won numerous Best Paper
Awards for his publications in Supply
Chain ManagementAn International
Journal (1996), International Journal
of Physical Distribution and Logistics
Management (1997), and the Journal of
Business Logistics (2002).
Ellinger has served as educational
and membership chairperson for the
Council of Logistics Management
Delaware Valley Roundtable, and is

also on the editorial board for Supply
Chain Management. He is a member of
the Council of Logistics Management,
Academy of Marketing Science, and
Society for Marketing Advances.
Dr. J. Brian Gray is professor of
statistics. His specialty areas are applied
statistics, exploratory data analysis, data
mining, regression analysis, and statistical computing and graphics.
from The University of Alabama
at Birmingham and his master of
science and doctor of philosophy from
Clemson University.
Gray has published research articles in journals such as Technometrics,
Journal of Computational and Graphical
Statistics, The American Statistician, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis,
Journal of Statistical Computation and
Simulation, and Statistics and Computing.
Gray received the Wilcoxon Prize
for Best Practical Application Paper in
Technometrics in 1984. He coauthored
the books Basic Statistical Ideas for Managers and Business Cases in Statistical
Decision-Making: Computer Based Applications. He is an active member of the
American Statistical Association.
Dr. David Mothersbaugh is
an associate professor of marketing.
His specialty areas are consumer
research, advertising effects of search
and decision making, economic
signaling effects of promotions,
language effects in advertising,
consumer knowledge, interpersonal
influence, and computer-mediated
marketing environments.
Mothersbaugh received his bachelor of science and master of science
from Pennsylvania State University and
his doctor of philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh.
Mothersbaugh has had numerous
articles published in journals such as
the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal
of Retailing, Journal of Business Research,
Journal of Consumer Affairs, Business
Communication Quarterly, and Psychology
and Marketing.
He has also chaired sessions and

presented papers at various national
conferences and is an ad hoc reviewer
for the Journal of Consumer Research and
Journal of Consumer Psychology. He is a
member of the executive board of the
Direct Marketing Education Foundation and the Society for Consumer
Psychology, for which he serves as
cochair of the annual SCP-Sheth dissertation proposal competition. He
received the Jagdish Sheth Dissertation
Research Grant and was the American
Marketing Association Consortium
Fellow from the University of Pittsburgh in 1993.
Dr. Frank H. Page Jr. is professor of finance. His specialty areas are
corporate finance, asset pricing, microeconomics, and game theory.
He received his doctor of philosophy from the University of Illinois.
Page is the associate editor of both
the Journal of Public Economic Theory
and Economics Bulletin. He has published articles in the Journal of Financial
and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of
Economic Theory, Journal of Mathematical
Economics, International Journal of Game
Theory, Economic Theory, Economic Letters, Canadian Mathematical Bulletin,
and Mathematical Social Sciences.
He has presented papers at the
London School of Economics, Institute
for Fiscal Studies (University College London), University of Warwick,
Cambridge University, the University
of Paris, CORE (Belgium), Tilbung
University, Hebrew University, and
the Russian Academy of Sciences. He
was the organizer of the 1996 NSF/
NBER Decentralization Conference
and the 1998 International Conference on Public Economic Theory (the
PET Conference) sponsored by The
University of Alabama, Culverhouse
College of Commerce and Business
Administration, Mercedes-Benz U.S.
International, the National Science
Foundation, and the Association for
Public Economic Theory. v
FacultyNews
Two insurance journals founded by University of

Alabama finance professors top the list
he Geneva Papers on Risk and

a top-echelon business school: attaining
It is yet again an indication knowledge through research to assist their
Insurance Theory, founded by Dr.
Harris Schlesinger, professor of
peers at other institutions and serving the
of our facultys research
finance and the Frank Park Samford
needs of students.
prowess and its heavy
Chair of Insurance at The University of
The rankings are reported in the
involvement in achievAlabama, has received the top quality
most recent issue of Risk Management
score among eight elite insurance and risk ing two primary goals of
and Insurance Review in an article by
management core journals.
Tamela D. Ferguson, professor of business
a top echelon business
In second place was the Journal of
administration at University of Louisiana
Risk & Insurance, founded by Dr. John
school: attaining knowledge at Lafayette; Mark S. Dorfman, univerBickley, retired professor of finance at
sity chair of insurance at the University
through research to assist
UA and founder of the Insurance Hall of
of North Carolina at Charlotte; and
their peers at other institu- William L. Ferguson, chair of insurance
Fame. Schlesinger has been an associate
editor of the Journal of Risk & Insurance
tions and serving the needs and risk management at University of
since 1985. In addition to their editorial
Louisiana at Lafayette.
of students.
positions, Bickley and Schlesinger each
The authors wrote in the report that
have served as president of the American
this research provides an assessment of
Risk and Insurance Association, which publishes the Journal
the utility and quality of risk management and insurance
of Risk & Insurance.
(RMI)-related journals using professorial expert opinion.
It is significant that the top two insurance journals
The authors use objective ratings (Social Science Citation
both had founding editors from the Culverhouse College of
Index factors) and subjective rankings based on surveyCommerce, said Dr. Rob Ingram, senior associate dean. It
response data.
is yet again an indication of our facultys research prowess
The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory was started
and its heavy involvement in achieving two primary goals of
jointly by Schlesinger and Henri Louberg (University of
Geneva) in 1990. Louberg spent a semester at UA in the
fall of 1990 helping organize the journal. Louberg and
Schlesinger were the founding co-editors of the journal.
Louberg remained in that position until 1994; Schlesinger
remained editor until 1998 and is currently an associate editor.
Schlesinger said that in 1994, four years after the journal
was founded, a survey of business school deans ranked the
journal 11th in quality among 60 finance journals, and
second among insurance journals behind the Journal of Risk
& Insurance.
Schlesinger also recently published Economic and
Financial Decisions under Risk, along with Louis Eeckhoudt
and Christian Gollier through Princeton University Press.
Eeckhoudt is professor of economics at the Catholic Faculties
of Mons (Belgium) and Lille (France) and associate member
of the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics
(CORE), Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). Gollier is professor
of economics at the University of Toulouse and a Research
Fellow at CESifo, a joint venture of the University of
Munichs Center for Economic Studies (CES) and Germanys
Ifo Institute. The book is an introduction to risk, risk measurement, and risk aversion. v
Dr. John Bickley, seated, and Dr. Harris Schlesinger

10 Culverhouse College of Commerce
FacultyNews
M.B.A. students recognize three

professors for excellence
hree faculty members were honored earlier this year by students

in the master of business administration programs.
Dr. Thomas L. Albright, professor
of accounting, was awarded the First
Year Faculty Excellence Award, and
Dr. Chad Hilton, associate professor of
managerial communication and director
of international business programs, was
selected as the recipient of the Second
Year Faculty Excellence Award.
The M.B.A. Faculty Excellence
Award winners are selected by second-
year M.B.A. students who feel that

these professors have shown an outstanding commitment to the program
through exceptional instruction.
Dr. James F. Cashman, professor
of management, was the winner of
the Faculty Bravo Award. Cashman,
the John R. Miller Professor of
Management, was recognized for
his inventive approaches to problem
solving and for challenging his
students to look beyond traditional
thought processes. v
Conerly named new head of

Information Systems, Statistics,
and Management Science
r. Michael D. Conerly, professor of statistics and director of

the applied statistics program,
has been named head of the Department of Information Systems, Statistics,
and Management Science, effective
August 16.
Conerly replaces Dr. Edd Mansfield, who served as department head
for the past eight years.
Edd Mansfield has been extremely helpful to the College and department
for the past eight years. We are grateful to

Edd for his service and appreciate Mikes
willingness to take on this role, said Dr.
Rob Ingram, senior associate dean.
Mansfield will return to teaching.
Conerlys specialty areas are regression
analysis, data mining, statistical computing, graphics and data visualization, multivariate quality control, and forecasting.
from Lamar University and his master of
science and doctor of philosophy from
Southern Methodist University.
Conerly has published numerous
papers dealing with the practical use of
statistics to solve business problems. He
has published articles in publications
such as Technometrics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, The American
Statistician, Journal of Quality Technology,
and Journal of Statistical Computation and
Simulation. He has directed nine dissertations in applied statistics and served
on more than 40 dissertation committees in other areas within the College
and University. He is a member of the
American Statistical Association. v
Pecorino
named Hayes
Professor of
Economics
r. Paul Pecorino has been

named the James Patrick and
Elizabeth B. Hayes Professor
of Economics.
Pecorino earned his bachelor of
arts from the State University of New
York at Stony Brook and his doctor of
philosophy from Duke University.
His specialty areas are public
economics, law and economics, and
international economics.
Professor Pecorino has published
articles in the American Economic
Review, Journal of Legal Studies, Journal of
Monetary Economics, Journal of Law and
Economics, Journal of Public Economics,
Journal of Labor Economics, Public Choice,
and Journal of Health Economics. He
is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa
Honor Society as well as the American
Economic Association, Southern
Economic Association, and American
Law and Economics Association.
He also is a member of the editorial boards of Public Choice and B. E.
Journals in Economic Analysis and Policy
and an associate editor at the Southern
Economic Journal. v
Fall 2005 cba.ua.edu 11
FacultyNews
Culverhouse
professors
spend
summers in
variety of
ways
K, youve heard the clich:

It must be nice to be a
university professor and
get the whole summer off.
Well, sort of. Professors at the
spend their summers in a variety
of ways, but most of them use the
time to advance their knowledge,
do important research, forge overseas collaborations, or help make
the world a better place in which
to live.
Here are some examples of how
faculty members spent the summer.
Dr. Benton Gup, professor of finance and Robert Hunt

Cochran/Alabama Bankers Chair
Gup started the
summer by attending the Financial
Management
Association
European meeting
in Siena, Italy, in
June. At the meeting, he presented
a paper, Basel II:
Operational Risk,
Moral Hazard, and
Corporate Culture. In July, Gup visited Sydney, Australia,
and Montevideo, Uruguay. As the keynote speaker at the
Australasian Institute of Banking and Finance, Gups presentation was titled Immigration and Informal Value Transfer
Systems. He also presented a seminar at the University of
Technology, Sydney, and worked with faculty members. In
Montevideo, Gup worked for 10 days with an international
monetary fund mission, which dealt with the countrys banking issues.
Dr. Frank Page, professor of finance and Board of Visitors
Research Fellow
Like Gup, Page was on the go beginning early June. Page
visited the economics research lab at the University of Paris
I (Pantheon-Sorbonne) from June 712 to work on analyzing
strategic contracting problems as games of network information. While in France, Page traveled to Marseille to attend the
2005 Public Economic Theory Conference. At the conference,
Page presented his paper, Budget Balancedness and Optimal
Income Taxation, which was coauthored by Marcus Berliant
of Washington University. In Marseille, Page also attended
a small conference where he presented Strategic Basins of
FacultyNews
Attraction, the Farsighted Core, and Network Formation
Games, coauthored by Myrna Wooders of Vanderbilt
University. Page again presented the paper in July at the
Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory conference in Vigo, Spain, and at the Stony Brook International
Conference at Stony Brook University in New York.
Dr. Harris Schlesinger, professor of finance and Frank Park
Samford Chair of Insurance
Schlesinger has been in Europe every summer for 21
years, teaching and doing research, and he has spent the last
three summers at The University of Kontanz in Kontanz,
Germany. This summer Schlesinger taught graduate students
insurance management. He also did research with other
professors on a theoretical analysis of portfolio choice. The
paper titled Assets Allocation with Non-Market Wealth and
Rollover Risk was presented by Schlesinger in England at the
University of Manchester and the University of Lancaster; in
Switzerland at the University of Zurich; and in Germany at
the University of Ulm. Schlesinger also presented a paper on
utility premium of which he was coauthor. In Kontanz on
a clear day, Schlesinger said, he had a great view of the Alps
from his office and bedroom.
Dr. Sharon Beatty, professor of marketing and Reese
Phifer Fellow
In only five weeks,
Beatty visited seven countries and 12 cities.
Beatty began her trip
in Milan, Italy, where she
presented two papers at
the European Marketing
Academy Conference.
The paper titled Critical
Service Encounters: An
Extension in the Online
Environment was coauthored by her current
doctoral student, Alicia
Dixon and former student, Betsy Holloway. The
second paper, Using Perceived Corporate Reputation as an
Attitudinal Segmentation Criterion: Findings from Germany,
was coauthored by Holloway, Keith Dinnie, and Gianfranco
Walsh. Both Dixon and
Holloway accompanied
Beatty to the conference.
After the conference,
Beatty traveled to Paris,
London, Oxford, Cardiff,
Edinburgh, Glasgow,
Amsterdam, and finally
to Hannover, Germany. It was there Beatty lectured a group

of undergraduate students at the University of Hannover on
international retailing issues.
Before Beattys European travels ended, she met a number
of foreign colleagues with whom she collaborated on research.
She had also traveled on every mode of transportation possible. Whether by train, ferry, bus, plane, and even a private car
on the Autobahn at 155 miles per hour, Beatty rode them all.
Once back in the states, Beatty traveled to San Francisco
for the American Marketing Associations national conference, where she made three presentations and participated in
a panel discussion. Before heading back to Tuscaloosa, Beatty
visited Napa Valley for some much deserved rest and relaxation that included massages, mineral and mud baths, and
great wine.
Dr. Anup Agrawal, professor and Powell Chair of Finance
Agrawal visited Moscow in August for the annual meeting of the European Finance Association. He presented his
paper, Do Analyst Conflicts Matter? Evidence from Stock
Recommendations. The paper was coauthored with Mark
Chen of the University of Maryland. While at the meeting,
Agrawal also chaired a session on corporate fraud and discussed a paper on corporate governance.
Dr. Amelia Baldwin, associate professor of accountancy
Baldwin used the summer to build her body and a
church. Baldwin completed her first 100-kilometer bicycle
ride that included climbing one 2,000-foot mountain during the 3-State, 3-Mountain Challenge held in Chattanooga,
Tennessee, in May. Baldwin also completed her first sprint
triathlon (swim/bike/run) and was ranked fourth in her division. Cycling 100 miles, running 10 miles, and swimming two
to three miles a week have helped Baldwin lose more than 100
pounds over the past two years. Despite a busy workout regimen, Baldwin has still been able to find time to volunteer. As
part of the group Builders for Christ, Baldwin spent one week
in June helping build Sycamore Ridge Community Church
near Dayton, Ohio. In July, Baldwin did volunteer pharmacy
work on a mission trip to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Dr. Grant Savage, professor of health care management
and HealthSouth Chair
Savage has traveled abroad for the last 15 years, but this
year he devoted most of his summer to completing an edited
book on international health care management and drafting a self-study for recertifying the undergraduate program
in health care management. However, Grant did travel to
Boston in June for the annual meeting of the Association
of University Programs in Health Administration and was
elected to the board. He also attended the meeting for the
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Col. William Tandy Barrett
James Stanley Mackin
Mark C. Smith
Charles Caldwell Marks
John Alexander Williamson
ive of the states leading business and civic leaders were inducted into the Alabama
Business Hall of Fame recently at the Bryant Conference Center on the University
of Alabama campus.
This year marked the 32nd anniversary of the hall of fame, sponsored by the Board of
Visitors of UAs Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration. The five
inductees exemplify hard work and determination as well as a commitment to excellence and
the entrepreneurial spirit.
Inductees for 2005 are Colonel William Tandy Barrett (deceased), James Stanley
Mackin, Charles Caldwell Marks, Mark C. Smith, and John Alexander Williamson
(deceased).
The black-tie event featured dinner and a keynote address by James J. Padilla, president and chief operating officer of Ford Motor Company and a member of the companys
board of directors. He is responsible for the global automotive business, overseeing marketing, manufacturing, engineering, and other operations in more than 200 markets with
327,000 employees.
More than 110 prominent business leaders have been inducted into the business hall of
fame, and their likenesses are embossed on plaques that line the walls of the Hall of Fame
Room in Bidgood Hall on the University campus.
Col. William Tandy Barrett

Military Hero, Avid Outdoorsman
(19001992)
ome people are born leaders. Colonel

William Tandy Barrett was one of those.
He was a military leader, a leader in the
laundry business, and a civic leader.
Barrett was born in Russellville, Alabama, in 1901 and moved to Tuscaloosa in
1915. During high school, he was an allaround athlete; as a senior, he was captain
of the football team. He graduated from
Tuscaloosa High School in 1919 and entered
The University of Alabama to study business management.
He worked his way through college,
graduating in 1924. He often singled out
Dean Lee Bidgood and Dr. H. H. Chapman, professor of business statistics, as men
who made a difference in his life. In gratitude, he later established the Colonel W.
Tandy Barrett Scholarship in the College of
Commerce and Business Administration.
Barrett enlisted in the Alabama
National Guard in 1923. He received his
commission in 1924 while training as a
cadet in the University of Alabama ROTC
program and advanced to the grade of captain by 1929, when he assumed command of
Company D. He commanded the company
for over 11 years, including its call to active
duty in 1940.
He was then assigned to the staff of the
Third Battalion, 167th Infantry, in 1941;
was selected as part of the cadre for the formation of the 84th Infantry Division in
1942; and then became commander of the
Third Battalion, 333rd Infantry Regiment.
He led the 333rd into action in Normandy
and the German heartland, where the battalion engaged the enemy from October
1944 to January 1945, including the Battle
of the Bulge.
Upon his return to Tuscaloosa, he
rejoined the Alabama National Guard as
executive officer of the 16th Infantry Regiment. In 1950 he was promoted to colonel
and transferred to the U.S. Army Reserve
where he was assigned to the command and
general staff college program from which he
retired in 1960.
In 1965, Barrett was presented the
Gold Medal of Merit by the Veterans of
Foreign Wars; in 1983, he received the
Distinguished Service Medal, the highest
honor the Alabama State Military Department awards.
Before World War II, Barrett worked

for Perry Creamery. In 1946, upon his
return to Tuscaloosa, he and his good
friend Ernest Rainy Collins converted the
Northington General Hospital laundry into
a commercial operation. The business grew
into West Alabamas largest laundry with
eight outlets in Tuscaloosa and Northport.
Barrett was dedicated to his profession
and served as a board member of the American Institute of Laundering, president of
the Alabama Institute of Laundry and Dry
Cleaning, and vice president of the Southern Laundry Association.
He was a director of the Tuscaloosa
Chamber of Commerce and president for
two terms. He received the rare honor of
being named the chambers Member of
the Year for two consecutive years, 1977
and 1978.
Barrett was chairman of the Tuscaloosa
County Industrial Development Authority,
197478; president of the Industrial Development Board for the city of Tuscaloosa;
president of the Tuscaloosa Exchange
Club; a member of the Tuscaloosa Housing Authority board; a director of Central
Bank of Tuscaloosa; and a director and
director emeritus of City National Bank of
Tuscaloosa. He also was a Mason, a Shriner,
and a member of First Presbyterian Church.
In addition to his civic activities, Barrett was an avid sportsman and served as
secretary/treasurer of the Dollarhide Hunting and Fishing Club for 40 years.
Barrett, who was married to the former Mattie Winn Nicholson of Centreville,
passed away in 1992 at age 91.
JAMES STANLEY MACKIN
(1932)
Successful Banker, Civic Leader
ames Stanley Mackin, retired chief

executive officer of Regions Financial
Corporation, rose to the top of the banking
industry utilizing his vision and an uncanny
sense of what was right for his company.
With Mackin holding the reins, Regions
grew from a company with $6.3 billion in
assets in 1990 to one with $43.7 billion prior
to his retirement in 2001.
Mackin was born to Louis and
Aileen Tanner Mackin on July 30, 1932,
in Birmingham, and grew up on the citys
Southside. He graduated from Auburn University with a bachelors degree in industrial
management and also graduated from the
Stonier Graduate School of Banking and the

Commercial Lending School at the University of Oklahoma.
After his graduation from Auburn in
1954, Mackin served in the United States
Navy on active duty from 1954 to 1958
before he returned to Birmingham to
enter the construction and real estate business. He served in the United States Naval
Reserve from 1950 to 1961 before retiring as
a commander.
In 1966, Mackin entered the banking
world. He took a job in the Commercial
Loan Department with Birminghams
Exchange Security Bank. By 1971, he
was serving as the head of his division in
what had become First Alabama Bank.
He served in numerous positions within
the company: vice president, senior
vice president, executive vice president,
and senior executive vice president. He
continued to head the Commercial Loan
Division until 1983.
In 1983 Mackin was elected president
and CEO of Regions Bank. Three years
later, he was elected chairman and CEO
of the bank and also elected central region
president of Regions Financial Corporation. He held those titles until January 1990,
at which time he was named president and
chief operating officer of the corporation.
In August of the same year, he was elected
chairman and CEO of Regions Financial
Corporation.
Mackins leadership and vision led
Regions growth not only in assets, but
also made the company a major presence
in the South.
In 1998, Mackin stepped down as CEO
but remained chairman of the board until
May 2001 when he reached the mandatory
retirement age that he had established for
bank employees.
Mackin is a 1998 inductee into the
Alabama Academy of Honor, which was
created by the state legislature in 1965
to honor living distinguished citizens of
the state. That same year, he was honored
as a Builder of Birmingham by Re-Entry
Ministries.
During his banking tenure, he was a
member of the American Bankers Association, Alabama Bankers Association,
American Institute of Banking, International Financial Bankers, Association of Bank
Holding Companies, Reserve City Bankers, Bankers Roundtable Board, and Robert
Morris Associates.

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Mackin has also invested heavily in
his community through civic involvement.
He has served as a board member for the
SETON Health Corporation, Alabama Public Television Foundation, Birmingham
Operaworks, and John Carroll Foundation.
He is a member of the Kiwanis Club of Birmingham, Operation New Birmingham,
Leadership Birmingham Class of 1984, and
Auburn Universitys business school board.
Mackin has served as the president of
the Better Business Bureau for North Central Alabama as well as on the board of
directors for both the Boys Club and the
Jefferson County Boy Scouts.
He is a 1991 recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus of the Year award, the
highest alumnus honor given by the Auburn
College of Business. In 1996, the J. Stanley
Mackin Eminent Scholar Chair in the College of Business was established in his name
by the board of directors of Regions Bank.
Mackin married Mary Jo Williams on
June 7, 1954. They are the parents of James
S. Mackin Jr., Leah McKinney, and Brian W.
Mackin, and have nine grandchildren.
CHARLES CALDWELL MARKS
(1921)
Astute Businessman, Civic Leader
verlooking Birmingham is a statue of

Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and
forge. As a young boy, Charles Caldwell
Marks used to climb through a trap door
between Vulcans feet, stand by the top of
the statues head, and gaze down upon the
city, a city on which he has had a tremendous impact.
When he was nominated for the Birmingham Business Hall of Fame, he was
described as an accomplished businessman
as well as a dedicated servant leader who
has worked hard to move this community
and this state forward.
Marks was born on top of Red
Mountain to Charles Pollard Marks and
Isabel Caldwell on June 1, 1921, and as a
young man enjoyed hunting and fishing
and traveling with his parents. Most of
his early education came at Birmingham
University School.
He attended the University of the
South and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in
1942 with a bachelors in physics. After
leaving Sewanee, Marks pursued graduate
studies at Cornell University, Harvard University, and The University of Alabama.
After graduation, he joined U.S. Steel

but cut his employment short to join the
United States Navy as World War II heated
up. He enlisted as an officer candidate,
then became a midshipman and served as a
lieutenant aboard ship in the Atlantic and
Mediterranean, with part of his time spent
in escort duty protecting civilian freighters. Markss duties as an engineering officer
proved to be valuable in civilian life.
In 1945, Marks married his first
wife, Jeanne Vigeant, and moved into a
duplex in Mountain Brook and began
raising a family.
After World War II, on April 1, 1946,
Marks and his friend Bill Spencer bought
the Owen Richards Company, a small mill
supply firm in Birmingham, thus beginning a long and illustrious business career.
They sold most of the firms inventory of
other products and decided to focus on ball
and roller bearings, gears, and mechanical
power transmissions. Marks and Spencer
changed the firms name to Motion Industries and took the company public in 1972.
Marks served as president of Motion Industries until his retirement in 1983.
Markss next major project was helping
in the formation of BE&K, a Birminghambased, top construction company that
specializes in high technology engineering,
construction, environmental, and maintenance services for the process industries. It
was a natural fit because Motion Industries
and BE&K had many of the same clients.
A success in the business world, Marks
has also been very involved in civic life.
He has served on many boards and in
numerous leadership positions, including
a stint as cochairman of the United Way,
a member of the board of directors of the
Birmingham Museum of Art, and a president of Childrens Hospital.
He was the managing director of the
Alabama Education Study Commission,
a founding director of the Executive Service Corporation of Alabama, and has
also served on the boards of governors of
the Indian Springs School, Highlands Day
School, and Brooke Hill School.
The 1987 recipient of a distinguished
alumnus award from the University of the
South, Marks has also been a trustee, chair
of the board of regents, and vice president
of the universitys alumni association.
Marks has also been awarded two
honorary degreesdoctor of civil law by the
University of the South in 1989 and doctor
of laws by The University of Alabama at

Birmingham in 1990.
He has also served as the president of
the Childrens Aid Society, chairman of the
Birmingham Committee for 100, president
of the Workshop for the Blind, director and
vice president of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, and chair of the board of
the Federal Reserve Bank of Birmingham.
He was one of five persons selected to meet
with President Kennedy in Washington
during the civil rights demonstrations in
Birmingham.
In the fall of 1998, Marks was selected
by the Kiwanis Club and inducted along
with five other men to the Birmingham
Business Hall of Fame.
At present, Marks serves as director emeritus for several companies, including Genuine
Parts Company, BE&K Inc., UAB Research
Foundation, and The Childrens Hospital.
Marks is married to Alice Scott Marks.
He and his late wife, Jeanne V. Marks, had
three childrenMargaret M. Porter, Randolph C. Marks, and Charles Marks.
MARK C. SMITH
(1940)
Engineer, Entrepreneur
ark Smith vividly recalls the day he

shook the hand of Dr. Wernher von
Braun, the German scientist who served as
director of NASAs Marshall Space Flight
Center and as the chief architect of the effort
that propelled Americans to the moon.
Smith had just graduated in 1958 from
Birminghams Woodlawn High School.
During high school, Smith became a ham
radio buff and developed an interest in
science. Upon winning first place in a science fair at Woodlawn, Smiths prize was
a handshake from von Braun. The young
high-school graduate saw this as a grand
opportunity and boldly asked von Braun for
a summer job. Smith went on to attend the
Georgia Institute of Technology, and over
the next three summers he worked at NASA
in Huntsville and in Cape Canaveral.
During the summer preceding his last
year of college, he was employed with SCI
Systems, and upon earning an electrical
engineering degree from Georgia Tech in
1962, he began full-time employment with
SCI as an engineering manager. In 1969,
his entrepreneurial spirit took hold and he
left SCI to cofound Universal Data Systems
(UDS)out of his home garage and with

$30,000 in savings. UDS, the first data
communications company in Alabama, was
quite successful. In 1979, with annual revenues of about $20 million, UDS was sold
to Motorola. At that time, Smith became
president of the UDS-Motorola Division.
In 1985, the proven visionary was
ready to take on yet another challenge:
he left UDS and cofounded ADTRAN.
As chief executive officer and chairman,
Smith led the start-up company of seven
employees to become a publicly traded
company in 1994, the same year ADTRAN
announced a $50 million expansion of
its facility. Today, with more than 1,600
employees and annual revenues approaching $500 million, the company is a
worldwide leader in providing high-speed
network access products to the telecommunications equipment industry.
During 2000, Smith took time off
for treatment of throat cancer and in
2001 returned to his activities as CEO
and chairman, although he admits to
slowing down some.
Smith has been honored with numerous awards, including an honorary doctor
of science in 1986 from The University
of Alabama in Huntsville. In 1995, he
was inducted into the state of Alabamas
Engineering Hall of Fame and was also
named Entrepreneur of the Year in the
high technology/electronics category of
the southeastern division. He was the 1995
recipient of Georgia Techs Distinguished
Engineering Alumni Award and the 1998
recipient of the Huntsville/Madison County Chamber of Commerces Distinguished
Service Award. He was selected CEO of the
Year in 2000 by The Birmingham News, and
was recognized by the Alabama Information Technology Association with its 2004
Lifetime Achievement Award.
Through his many civic, philanthropic, and business involvements, Smith
has helped establish Huntsvilles modern
identity, and he continues to be actively
involved. He was recently named Person of
the Decade for 19902000 in Huntsville for
his positive thinking and fearlessness.
Smith is the son of Gerald A. and
Verna Smith. He is married to the former
Linda Jones of Greenville, Georgia, and
they have a daughter, Cynthia Smith McKernan of Houston; a son, Clay, of Dallas;
and seven grandchildren. He enjoys fishing and boating, especially aboard the boat,
High Tide II, which he pilots up the Ten-
nessee River every two years to watch the

Alabama-Tennessee game.
JOHN ALEXANDER WILLIAMSON
(19182004)
Naval Hero, Auto Industry Giant
y his own admission, John Alexander

Williamson was a risk taker, which, as
he wrote in his book, would stand me in
good stead in the Pacific.
Williamson was born in Brighton and
moved to Birmingham when he was two
years old. He attended Hemphill School,
skipping several grades and later starting at
Ensley High School one and a half years
younger than his classmates. In 1939, he
graduated from Birmingham-Southern College where he majored in mathematics and
minored in English.
He began his professional career selling
Chevrolets for Drennen Motor Company.
World War II was brewing, so Williamson
joined the United States Navy, eating
heavily in order to gain the needed weight
to be accepted.
He was a veteran of both World War II
and the Korean conflict and was decorated
for bravery and leadership.
Williamson commanded a subchaser
in the Caribbean and a destroyer escort in
the Pacific during World War II. As executive officer of the destroyer escort, USS
England, he directed his ship in attacks that
sank six Japanese submarines in 12 days. His
ship was credited with materially impacting
the course of the Pacific campaign, and he
received the Presidential Unit Citation. Williamson also held the Legion of Merit for
Combat and the Silver Star Medal for Combat in the Pacific Area.
While serving as an instructor in antisubmarine warfare and seamanship at the
Subchaser Training Center in Miami, he
developed a man overboard recovery procedure that was later named the Williamson
Turn. This procedure is still used in the
U.S. Navy as well as in other navies and the
merchants marine, and is credited with saving countless lives at sea.
After his military service, Williamson
returned to Birmingham and worked as
a car salesman with Don Drennen. Later,
he was a district manager with General
Motors. Williamson became prominent in
American automotive affairs through his
consulting and training activities, which
developed into a lifelong mission of build-
ing businesses that met customers needs

with high levels of professionalism and
integrity. These activities led to the creation
of several allied business firms, including
his career-long core-consulting firm, John
Williamson and Associates, later known as
Williamson, Merrill, Taylor, and Darling
and then as Vantage Associates.
He was founder and chairman of KeyRoyal Automotive, which sought to attract
bright, young people into the retail automobile field, teach them the business, and
help them become independent dealers.
Key-Royal grew to over 25 retail dealerships
throughout the United States and operated
a training arm that worked with automobile
manufacturers and dealers around the world.
Williamson also was a founder of Birmingham-based CARS Inc., which was an
early pioneer in the integration of computers and technology in the automotive
business. CARS eventually became publicly-traded DYATRON, which later merged
into SunGard Data Systems, a company that
specialized in the operations of computers
and computing systems utilized in the automobile, banking, personnel, brokerage, and
mortgage banking industries.
Just as he had been highly decorated
for his military service, Williamson was also
recognized in civilian life. He received the
National Freedom Foundation Award for his
open address to the United States Congress,
After 200 Years, A Citizen Speaks to Congress, published July 4, 1976.
In 1999, he was presented the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished
Public Service, the highest medal that can
be bestowed on a civilian.
Williamson tirelessly sought to help
others, both directly and through charitable
and civic endeavors, devoting particular
attention to the Boys and Girls Clubs, Boy
Scouts, IMPACT Family Counseling, ReEntry and Kairos prison ministries, and
Rotary Club. v
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Culverhouse School of
Accountancy graduate
packs a pistol for the FBI
nyone who thinks being an accountant is dull work

should spend a day or two with Alton Sizemore.
Sizemore, a graduate of the Culverhouse School
of Accountancy at The University of Alabama, is the assistant
special agent in charge of the Birmingham office of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). If his name sounds
familiar, it may be because you read it in the newspapers
during the trial of former HealthSouth CEO Richard
Scrushy. Sizemore was the agent who submitted affidavits
asking a judge to approve a search warrant for HealthSouths
headquarters in March 2003.
I have often said that accountants make the best FBI
agents, Sizemore told a group of 28 high-school students
participating in the Capstone Business Academy, a summer
program for rising seniors interested in a career in business.
The focus of most crime is money. It follows the money. Even terrorists commit
fraud to fund their terrorist activities.
Sizemore, along with Ricky
Crosby, a special agent assigned to
the Tuscaloosa Resident Agency, kept
the students mesmerized with their
accounts of FBI life.
When it comes time to make
the arrest, Sizemore said, I want to
be there. But the only good arrest is
the one in which no one gets hurt.
As the assistant special agent in
charge, Sizemore is responsible for
making sure we have a good plan
and adequate manpower on the
arrest scene and adequate firepower.
Firepower, for Sizemore, is a .45
caliber pistol on his belt and shotgun
in his car. The FBI also uses other
high-powered weapons, including
the .50 caliber long-range sniper rifles
being used by U.S. forces in the Middle
East and other hostile areas. The .50 caliber
rifle is only used to disrupt improvised explosive
devices when a water cannon will not penetrate
the container holding the explosive device.
Sizemore, 54, attended UA on a track
Alton Sizemore
scholarship and also ran cross-country. He has a son and

daughter and is a grandfather of two. His son attended UA
and majored in accounting and also earned his masters in
accounting at UA. His daughter and son-in-law also attend the
University.
Sizemore, who has been with the FBI for 25 years,
majored in accounting with the objective of becoming an FBI
Agent. At one time the FBI preferred its agents to be either
accountants or attorneys. Now the FBI is also looking for
individuals with computer science, intelligence, engineering,
physical science, and foreign language backgrounds.
Not surprisingly, the FBIs top priority these days is
counterterrorism. After 911, it all changed, Sizemore said.
The FBI moved more than 1,000 agents from drugs to
terrorism. He said that from 1980 through 2001, the FBI had
prevented 133 terrorist acts.
While wiretapping is a staple of television whodunits,
Sizemore said the FBI has limited wiretapping activities
because the approval process makes wiretapping the
technique of last resort.
You have to show that nothing else has been productive,
he said, noting that the average wiretap application takes 60
days to be completed. Even when activated, the wiretap has
to be cut off (minimized) if anything is being discussed other
than the illegal activity outlined in the approval process. A
federal judge approves and closely monitors the entire process.
I have often said that accountants make

the best FBI agents. The focus of most
crime is money. It follows the money.
Even terrorists commit fraud to fund their
terrorist activities.
Sizemore told the students that, as FBI agents, he and
other agents adhere to a strict set of core values that include
rigorous obedience to the U.S. Constitution; treating everyone
with dignity and respect, regardless of what they are accused of
doing; fairness; compassion; and personal integrity.
Society has to believe that we are the good guys, he said.
Every day ethical situations come up. As a law enforcement
officer, there will be a far greater number of instances when
you will need to demonstrate moral courage rather than
physical courage.
Foreign counterintelligence follows counterterrorism as
a priority, Sizemore said, and while the CIA is responsible
for overseas counterintelligence, the FBI monitors foreign
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counterintelligence operations in
the U.S. He said Alabama, with its
concentration of military bases and
the Marshall Space Flight Center in
Huntsville, is high on the list of targets
of foreign intelligence operatives.
Sizemore said half of the nations
terrorism threats reach the FBI via the
Internet, making cyber crime another
top priority for the FBI.
Ninety percent of businesses
surveyed reported cyber crime breaches within the past 12
months, he said. The businesses surveyed reported 223
incidents of cyber crime, which amounted to $456 million in
losses, although only 34 percent of the businesses reported
the loss to law enforcement. The cyber crimes ranged from
identity theft to credit card fraud to child pornography to
online extortion.
Public corruption in law enforcement, legislative bodies,
and the judiciary is next in line in priority of concern,
Sizemore said, followed by civil rights violations and criminal
enterprises, the FBI term for organizations such as La Cosa
Nostra, Euro-Asian gangs, South American drug cartels, and
the violent MS-13.
MS-13, a youth gang with its origin in El Salvador, has
established a major criminal presence in the United States,
bringing a new level of violence and brutality. Also known
as La Mara Salvatrucha, MS-13 had its roots in El Salvador
during the bloody civil conflict that tore that country apart
in the 1980s. Members were distinguished by their propensity
for extreme violence, often favoring the use of machetes to
attack their victims.
These gang members are looking
for violence and do not
shy away from confrontation with law

enforcement, Sizemore said.
White-collar crime, another priority,
includes bank frauds, business frauds,
fraud against the government, and
medical frauds.
Asked about the recent acquittal
of HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy,
Sizemore said, My job is to get the
truth. The fact that a defendant is
acquitted shows our system of justice
is the fairest in the world. As long as
I know we put forth our best effort in
investigating the allegations and presenting the case to the
United States Attorneys Office, Im satisfied to leave the
outcome to the jury.
Investigating violent crimes, such as bank robberies,
kidnapping, and extortion; supporting other law enforcement
partners at the local, state, and federal levels; and keeping
up with technology are also included on the FBIs list of
priorities, Sizemore said.
For more information about the FBI, go online to
http://www.fbi.gov. v
My job is to get the truth. The fact that a defendant is acquitted shows our system of justice
is the fairest in the world. As long as I know
we put forth our best effort in investigating
the allegations and presenting the case to the
United States Attorneys Office, Im satisfied to
leave the outcome to the jury.
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Twenty-eight rising high-school seniors from around
the Southeast participated in the second Capstone
Business Academy over the summer. The students,
who are interested in careers in business, attended
presentations by faculty members and by members of
the business community and took part in a number of
team-building exercises. The academy also included a
trip to Atlanta for a Braves game and visits to several
Atlanta businesses. For information about next years
Capstone Business Academy, contact Lisa McKinney
at lmckinne@cba.ua.edu or at (205) 348-6679.
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University of Alabama
EMBA graduate hits
the big time and gets
an assist from her
alma mater
recent graduate from The

University of Alabama has used
her executive master of business administration, her ability, and her
determination to produce a remarkable
success story.
In two and a half years, January
Dennison and her husband, John, started a small business and turned it into a
multimillion dollar enterprise. Her success has led to her selection as Florida
Small-Business Person of the Year in
2004. And in order to continue to grow
the business, she is using the resources
of The University of Alabama through
its Alabama Productivity Center (APC).
In February 2003, Dennisons company, Technology Research Consultants
(TRC) of Haines City, Florida, won its
first significant Department of Defense
(DOD) contract. The companys niche
is supplying parts that the DOD can no
longer obtain from the original vendor.
TRC has been identified as an
Army Material Command smallbusiness success story by the AMC
commanding general.
The Department of Defense has
a very strong small-business program,
which enables contract opportunities
for both woman-owned small businesses
and small disadvantaged businesses.
TRC has been able to effectively leverage the contract opportunities that this
program affords, Dennison said.
Meanwhile, Dennison has remained
close to The University of Alabama.
She has subcontracted Dr. David Miller
and the Alabama Productivity Center to
assist TRC in establishing and streamlining the business and manufacturing
processes within her company. The
Alabama Productivity Center, a non-
profit organization at The University of

Alabama, works to improve companies
quality, productivity, and competitiveness through the use of the Universitys
research and educational resources.
Dr. David Miller is a renowned
expert in the subject matter, and TRC
continues to increase our profitability
by implementing the recommendations
of Dr. Miller and the productivity center team, Dennison said.
Miller said Dennison is a strong
believer in using universities as assets
to the business. But when she was
unable to generate any interest from
other universities, Dennison turned to
UA and Miller.
Miller said that the support that
the University is giving to TRC is a
great example of the win-win situation that can be created when creative
business people utilize university faculty, students, professional staff, and
laboratories. He pointed out that the
University is locating three students
on-site at TRC for the summer, and that
the rest of the productivity center team
makes frequent visits and teleconferences to guide the effort.
TRC benefits by having access
to state-of-the-art technologies and
concepts at very low costs, Miller said.
This access is delivered primarily by
very skilled and motivated graduate students. In TRCs case, our team consists
of a second-year M.B.A. student who
has an industrial engineering undergraduate degree, an incoming M.B.A.
student, a senior in operations management, a professor in the same area, and
two full-time professional field staff
with 45 years of business experience.
The winning for the University
comes from the fact that the experience
that our students are getting by being
immersed in a company such as TRC is
invaluable to their professional education. And being mentored by managers
such as January and John Dennison is a
unique opportunity for the students.
January is very interactive, and she
is a phenomenal manager. The students
learn a management style and get a
firsthand look at growing and developing a business.

Miller said APC has a long-range
plan for supporting TRC on the business side of things, and we are helping
her apply lean manufacturing principles
to her operation to provide the infrastructure to grow.
After years of on-the-job training
with Teledyne, Dennison decided to
earn her EMBA to validate her knowledge of fiduciary responsibility and
profit management.
I chose the UA EMBA program
because it provided a broad introduction
of management techniques and effective
application discussions, she said.
Dennison has taken TRC from a
small sole proprietorship to a large corporation with her education and expertise.
UA provided the road map, and I implemented the concepts, she said. TRC is
$105 million richer for it today. v
The winning for the

University comes
from the fact that the
experience that our
students are getting by
being immersed in a
company such as TRC
is invaluable to their
professional education.
And being mentored
by managers such
as January and John
Dennison is a unique
opportunity for the
students.
StudentNews
By Chrishan Emonina
UA chapter of Alpha Kappa Psi business fraternity

one of the best in the country
ou may not know what ACRs

are, but the members of Alpha
Kappa Psi business fraternity
certainly do.
Out of the fraternitys 185 chapters
throughout the United States and United Kingdom, UAs Alpha Rho chapter
scored 103,000 points on the Annual
Chapter Report (ACR) and is ranked
third among all chapters. The score,
a first for the UA chapter, means that
The University of Alabama has one of
the best chapters in the country. There
were only three other schools to score
more than 100,000 points. The only
two schools to finish ahead of UA were
Rutgers and American University.
The ACR score is so important
because awards are given out by the
number of points accrued, said
Dr. James Cashman, professor of
management and Alpha Kappa Psi
faculty advisor.
The ACR rates the chapter in the

areas of knowledge, integrity, service,
brotherhood, and unity. Already having
received the top award for Outstanding
Chapter in the Southern Division at the
end of the spring semester, the chapter has
also been nominated for the chapter of the
year award, which will be given out at the
Alpha Kappa Psi national convention.
There is a chance that we can become
the best in the nation, Cashman said.
Drayton Green, incoming Alpha
Kappa Psi president, is already focusing on
making the fraternity better for next year.
We are going to continue what we
have done in the past, but we hope to
expand our name in the business school,
Green said.
He also plans to increase membership
for the upcoming year over last years total
of 71.
Any student in the business school
with a 2.0 grade point average is eligible to
Drayton Green, left, and

Dr. James Cashman
become a member. All potential members
must submit an application and rsum.
Eligible applicants will be interviewed
and must complete a seven-week pledge
process.
Cashman attributes the success of the
fraternity to past and current leadership.
We have a group of youngsters who
have found a way to care enough about
what they are doing to spark a fire in
many more. v
UA graduate interns with The Heritage

By Chrishan Emonina
Foundation in Washington
fter
receiving her
masters degree
in applied economics at The
University of
Alabama earlier
this year, Erin
Green received
an unexpected
Greene
e-mail invitation
from The Heritage Foundation to apply
for an internship.
She accepted and reported for duty
on June 6.
The Heritage Foundation, founded
in 1973, is a public policy research organization located in Washington, D.C.
Its mission is to formulate and promote
conservative public policies based on
the principles of free enterprise, limited

government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong
national defense.
Green, 23, a Montgomery,
Alabama, native, worked at the foundations Center for Data Analysis where
she dealt mostly with policy initiative
and wrote academic papers about the
foundations position on policies such
as the minimum wage, No Child Left
Behind Act, and withholding amount of
the child tax credit.
As an undergraduate at the
University, Green participated in the
Blount Undergraduate Initiative and
received her bachelor of science in economics. She said Dr. Forrest McDonald,
professor emeritus of history, fueled her
passion for public policy and conservatism. He is an example of what the
founding fathers stood for. I learned a

lot from him.
Now a senior analyst with Compass
Bank in Birmingham, Green desires to
work on a state-level grass roots initiative and be involved in either education
or economic development.
I want to be able to shape policy
without holding a political office. I would
like to be on the policy side of politics.
Green said Culverhouse College of
Commerce Dean Barry Mason and Dr.
Michael Hardin, professor of statistics,
were key contacts in helping her prepare
for her career.
Although I was in grad school for
one year, Dean Mason was very supportive. Dr. Michael Hardin linked me
up with the people I interviewed with at
Compass Bank. v
DevelopmentNews
By Charlie Adair Director of Development

Commerce Executives
Society plays important
role in filling funding gaps
Last spring I encouraged everyone to stay connected by
referring outstanding students
signing up for our e-newsletter
keeping us updated on your professional development
sharing your business experience
joining the Commerce Executives Society
contributing financially to the College
This fall I want to focus on the Commerce Executives Society
(CES). CES is a source of discretionary funds that enables the College
to fill funding gaps and create opportunities for our students and faculty.
If I were to list everything that CES funds impact, we would need
an additional five pages. They only gave me one, so here are a few
select highlights from last year.
$30,000 was made available for student scholarships.
Complete funding was provided for the Commerce Associates,
Culverhouses student ambassadors. This included clothing,
supplies, materials, and a partial scholarship for each member.
$18,000 was provided to assist professors with
their research expenses.
$11,413 was used to recognize students and their achievements.
For the coming year, CES funds will also be used to provide seed
money to the M.B.A. Association as it takes over the retail operations
for Culverhouse promotional items. This will be a tremendous
opportunity for them to gain valuable merchandising experience and to
raise funds for the M.B.A. scholarship endowment.
Without your generous donations, these projects would not have
been possible.
For those of you who are members, thank you for your support.
If you are not a member and would like to join, it is now easier than
ever. Just visit our website, www.business.ua.edu, and follow the Giving
to the College link at the bottom right of the page.
Thanks again for all of your help.
DevelopmentNews
Carl and Ann Jones give $1 million to UA;

Regions Financial to match gift
arl E. Jones, outgoing chief executive officer of

Regions Financial Corporation, and his wife, Ann
Karpinski Jones, both University of Alabama graduates, have donated $1 million to UA, which will be matched
with another $1 million by Birmingham-based Regions
Financial Corporation, one of the nations top 15 financial
services providers.
The gifts will establish an endowed scholarship fund to support the education of students in both the Culverhouse College
of Commerce and the College of Arts and Sciences. Students
selected will receive the Carl E. and Ann K. Jones Regions
Endowed Scholarship.
Carl Jones, who received his bachelors degree
in banking and finance from the University in
1962, has served on the Presidents Cabinets
of all UA presidents since the 1970s. He
has also served on UAs National Advisory
Board, the Campaign for Alabama Steering
Committee, and the Board of Visitors of
the Culverhouse College of Commerce and
Business Administration.
Ann Jones, who received her bachelors
degree in mathematics from UA in 1962,
has served as chair of the Leadership Board
for the UA College of Arts and Sciences and
as a member of the Advisory Board for the
Blackburn Institute.
We are most appreciative of these generous
gifts in honor of Carl and Ann, said J. Barry Mason,
dean of the Culverhouse College of Commerce. The Joneses
have been steadfast and loyal supporters of the University, the
business school, and the College of Arts and Sciences. Their
wise counsel and advice over the years have been invaluable.
This generous gift will provide opportunities for many students, who in turn will be able to give back to the state and
the University.
Regions president and CEO Jackson W. Moore, who is
also a UA graduate and current member of the UA Presidents
Cabinet, said the company was pleased to honor Carl Jones,
who began his career with Regions in 1962 and was named
CEO in 1998.
It is particularly fitting that we honor Carl and Ann in
the form of a scholarship, given that one of Regionss values
is growth and learning opportunities for performance-oriented
associates, said Moore, who succeeded Jones as CEO of
Regions July 1. Jones will continue to serve as the companys
chairman of the board until July 2006.
It was important to us as a company to properly recognize Carl and Anns years of dedicated service to Regions,
to the University, and to the state of Alabama, Moore said.
We appreciate the Universitys partnership in this effort, and
would like to thank the Joneses for the generosity and leadership they have demonstrated by making their own personal
contribution to the scholarship fund.
Priority consideration for the Carl E. and Ann K. Jones
Regions Endowed Scholarship will be given to full-time
undergraduate students who are dependents of employees of
Regions Financial Corporation and any of its subsidiaries.
Each scholarship will provide the recipient with full tuition for
up to four years. The first of the scholarships will be awarded
to students enrolling for Fall Semester 2006. Students will be
able to apply online at scholarships.ua.edu.
While a student at the University, Carl Jones
was a member of the Jasons, Omicron Delta
Kappa honor society, Delta Sigma Pi, and Beta
Gamma Sigma. As a student, Ann Jones
served as president of Delta Gamma sorority and president of Associated Women
Students. She was honored with the
Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, one of
the Universitys top student awards. After
college, she served as a college counselor
and middle school math and English
teacher at UMS-Wright Preparatory School
in Mobile and as president of the Junior
League of Mobile. In Birmingham, she has
been a member of the board of the Alabama
Symphony Orchestra.
After graduating from the University, Carl
Jones joined Regionss predecessor, Merchants National
Bank, in Mobile as a participant in the banks management
training program. He pursued and achieved graduate degrees
from both the Graduate School of Banking at Louisiana State
University and the Graduate School of Credit and Financial
Management at Dartmouth College. He was elected president
of Regions Bank in Mobile in 1978 and was promoted to
CEO at the Mobile bank in 1981, later going on to be named
regional president of southern Alabama in 1981 and regional
president for Louisiana in 1993.
In 1997, Jones brought his community-banking, valuesoriented perspective to the position of president of Regions.
He was named CEO in 1998, and he assumed the additional
role of chairman of the board in 2001. He has guided Regions
through mergers with First Commercial Corporation, Morgan
Keegan and Company, and, most recently, Tennessee-based
Union Planters Corporation.
Regions Financial Corporation is a full-service provider
of retail and commercial banking, trust, securities brokerage, mortgage, and insurance products and services. With its
merger with the former Union Planters Corporation complete,
Regions had $84.3 billion in assets as of March 31, 2005. v
Thank
You
DevelopmentNews
Jim and Doris

Nelems
The Marketing
Workshop Inc.
founders make
$100,000 gift
to College
im Nelems, president and chief

executive officer of The Marketing
Workshop in Norcross, Georgia,
chuckles when he recalls meeting his
wife while they were students at The
University of Alabama.
We were both working in the business library at the time. I worked on
one side of the library, and she worked
on the other side. There was another
librarian there who kept insisting that
we needed to meet each other and introduced us, he said.
Forty-three years later, Nelems runs
one of the most successful marketing
research firms in the nation, and his
wife, Doris (Dot) Nelems, is the chief
financial officer.
Its not hard to understand why
Jim Nelems has fond memories of
Tuscaloosa and why he holds the
University in high regard. His parentsin-law met in Tuscaloosa; his mother
graduated from UA; his daughter, Sherri
Nelems Taylor, earned her masters
degree at UA, where she met her husband, Scott Taylor; and Nelemss son,
David, attended UA.
That high regard has resulted in a
$100,000 contribution to the University
to promote faculty excellence at the
through the James H. and Doris G.
Nelems Endowed Support Fund for
Faculty Excellence in Marketing Research.
Jim and Dot Nelems are longtime
friends and supporters of the College,
said Dean J. Barry Mason. Over the
years they have provided valuable
assistance in a number of ways, most
recently through their research efforts on

our branding initiative.
When you have a firm assisting
you that ranks among the top marketing
research firms in the nation, you know
you are on the right track. We are ever
so grateful to the Nelems family for its
financial support, research support, and
wise counsel.
Jim Nelems received two marketing
degrees from UA: a bachelors in 1962
and a masters in 1963. He founded The
Marketing Workshop Inc. in 1972 and
also is owner and founder of Compass
Marketing Research, a subsidiary firm
established in 1980. He served as director of marketing research for Henderson
Advertising Agency and has taught
marketing at Furman University and the
University of South Carolina.
In 2002 he was named Atlantas
Marketer of the Year.
The business is going well, he
said. We are the oldest and largest marketing research firm in the South and we
are ranked No. 44 in the country. Were
The University of Alabama

enabled me to get a job, first
of all, and it enabled me to
get the kind of job I wanted
to have.
the only marketing research firm in the

South to be ranked. I also have seven
employees who are UA graduates and
two from Auburn.
Nelems has more than 300 employees in his businesses.
The University of Alabama enabled
me to get a job, first of all, and it enabled
me to get the kind of job I wanted to
have, Nelems said. The UA business
school has a good reputation, and the
University and the business school are
realistic about things and are personable.
I am particularly grateful to Dr. Morris
Mayer, who was my advisor and then my
daughters advisor 30 years later.
Nelems is a published author. His
book, Research to Riches: The Secret Rules of
Successful Marketing Research, is an insiders guide to marketing research.
Nelems and his wife manage to
occasionally return to Tuscaloosa during
the football season and regularly attend
the College's Commerce Executives
Society luncheons held in Atlanta,
where names are drawn for door prizes,
often footballs or basketballs autographed by UA coaches.
Weve had the good fortune of
winning three footballs and two basketballs, he said. v
CollegeNews
By Chrishan N. Emonina
Pursuing doctoral degree in

applied statistics
Shywanda Moore receives award from
Southern Regional Education Board
hywanda Moore remembers her

grandfather, a former algebra
teacher, with a lot of fondness.
He could apply any everyday situation to math, she said. So it is no
coincidence that Moore, who is pursuing a doctoral degree in applied statistics, attributes her love for mathematics
to her grandfather.
That love for math is one of the
ingredients that made her a 200506
Southern Regional Education Board
(SREB) State Doctoral Program award
recipient. This award, given to outstanding minorities pursuing a doctoral
degree, is part of a nationwide initiative,
The Compact for Faculty Diversity, to
produce more minority Ph.D.s and to
encourage them to seek faculty positions.
My professors also talk about
life experiences and relate them to the
coursework, which really helps, she
said.
Asked about receiving the SREB
fellowship, Moore said she was a
happy camper who almost didnt
receive the award.
There were two different deadline
dates given, and I did not know which
date was correct. Moore had to call
the SREB program coordinator to make
sure she had time to submit her application. Luckily, she made the deadline.
The SREB award will give Moore
$15,000 a year for living expenses, pay
for her to attend the annual Compact
for Faculty Diversity Institute on
Teaching and Mentoring for three years,
and give her access to professional
development funds.
Dr. Michael Conerly, head of the
Department of Information Systems,
Statistics, and Management Science,
told Moore about the SREB fellowship.
I knew the department had some
minority scholarships, and SREB was
the best one since it pays for up to five

years, Conerly said. Shywanda has
done a great job. Before meeting her, I
knew just by looking at her transcripts
that this is somebody that is serious.
Since being founded in 1993, the
doctoral scholars program has supported
more than 580 scholars who attended
83 institutions in 29 states. SREB states
share resources, work to expand their
minority applicant pool, support qualified candidates with financial assistance
for up to five years of graduate study,
and assist graduates and higher education institutions in identifying employment opportunities.
To retain the fellowship, Moore
will have to maintain a 3.0 grade point
average and attend the Compact for
Faculty Diversity Institute on Teaching
and Mentoring for three years. She
also cannot receive any other financial
support, such as other fellowships and
scholarships, all of which will not be a
problem, according to Moore.
We have to keep at least a 3.0 to
stay in the program anyway, and not
having to work will give me more time
to study.
Before receiving the SREB
fellowship, Moore was a graduate
teaching assistant and taught a
statistics course in summer school.
She said she loves to teach and hopes
to teach at the University after she
receives her doctorate.
Before coming to The University
of Alabama in 2004, Moore taught
developmental mathematics at Meridian
Community College in Mississippi for
four years. A wife and the mother of
one son, Moore has a masters in secondary education from Mississippi State
University and a bachelors degree from
Southern Mississippi University. v
AlumniNews
University of Alabama graduate Richard Anthony

elected CEO and president of Synovus
ichard E. Anthony, who earned his bachelors degree

in finance at The University of Alabama and his
master of business administration at the University of
Virginia, has been elected chief executive officer and president
of Synovus, advancing into the role previously held by James
H. Blanchard, who became chairman of the board.
The company also announced that Blanchard would retire
as an executive employee of the company in October 2006, at
which time Anthony will assume the position of both chairman
and CEO. The company said leadership changes are part of the
implementation of a carefully developed, longrange succession
planning process that began in the spring of 1999.
As we have prepared over the past several years for a

smooth transition in our companys top leadership, I have
focused much of my time observing the skill and leadership
abilities of key executives within Synovus, Blanchard said.
Richard has proven throughout his 34-year career in financial
services, and most recently as president and COO, that he has
the vision and expertise to leverage the unique growth opportunities available to Synovus and to ensure our success. Richard
has also demonstrated his belief that the strength of Synovus
lies in the hands of team members who feel valued for the
work they do and know how to build lasting relationships with
our customers.
As CEO and president, Anthony will direct the development and implementation of key business strategies as well as
lead the day-to-day activities of the company.
Anthonys banking career began at AmSouth Bank, N.A.,
in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1971. He served in various roles
at AmSouth until leaving his executive vice president position to become president of First Commercial Bancshares and
chairman of the board and CEO of First Commercial Bank
in Birmingham in 1985. Anthony joined Synovus in 1992
when the company merged with First Commercial Bancshares.
He served as president of Synovus Financial Corporation of
Alabama from 1993 to 1995, when he was elected vice chairman of the holding company and was responsible for the
management of all the companys banks and its mortgage operation. Anthony was elected president and COO in 2003 and
also serves as a Synovus board member and a director of TSYS.
Synovus has more than $26 billion in assets. Based in
Columbus, Georgia, Synovus provides integrated financial
services, including banking, financial management, insurance,
mortgage, and leasing services, through 41 banks and other
Synovus offices in Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Florida,
and Tennessee. Synovus also provides electronic payment
processing through an 81-percent stake in TSYS (NYSE:
TSS), one of the worlds largest companies for outsourced
payment services.
Synovus has been named one of The 100 Best Companies
to Work For in America by Fortune magazine and has been
recognized by the magazine in its Hall of Fame for consecutive appearances on the list since the lists inception in 1998.
In 2005, Synovus was also named one of Americas Most
Admired Companies.
Anthony is a director of the Economic Development
Partnership of Alabama, Business Council of Alabama, and
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of The Financial Services Roundtable, The University of
Alabama Presidents Cabinet, and the Culverhouse College of
Commerce Board of Visitors. v
AlumniNews
Michael Shane Spiller succeeds his father as

president of family-owned furniture company
ichael Shane Spiller, a 1995

graduate of the Culverhouse
College of Commerce,
has been named president of Spiller
Associated Furniture Stores.
Spiller, who has been with the
family business since 1987, previously served as vice president of
sales and inventory control manager.
Spiller Furniture Company, which
has 16 stores in Alabama and one in
Columbus, Mississippi, has been in
business for more than 57 years.
Michael Spiller, former president of Spiller Furniture and Shane
Spillers father, will remain chairman
of the board.
Shane has always done an
outstanding job working with our customers and team members, Michael
Spiller said. But more

than that, he is an outstanding human being
who cares about his fellow man and the welfare
of everyone around him.
He has the ability to lead
by example and to grow
this company through the
third generation.
Concerning his
promotion, Shane Spiller said, I am
blessed to have a wonderful father and
grandfather who have led this company
for the past 56 years. I certainly would
not have the opportunities I have without them and my family. The Spiller
Furniture family is also very dear to
my heart. They are truly the ones that
allow this company to operate on a
daily basis. I look forward

to helping them continue
the tradition of serving our
customers with all of their
home furnishings needs.
Shane Spiller was
recently named Retailer
of the Year by the
Southeastern Home
Furnishings Association,
marking the first time a
third member of a family representing
a third generation received this high
honor. Shanes grandfather, James E.
Spiller Jr., received this honor in 1976,
as did Michael B. Spiller in 1987. All
three also served as president of the
organization, which represents furniture retailers in Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, and the Florida Panhandle. v
New team lineup

College announces personnel additions, changes, retirements
r. Denise McManus, new

assistant professor of management information systems and
MIS Forum Faculty Fellow, received
her doctor of philosophy and master of
business administration from Auburn
University. She received her bachelor of
science and bachelor of arts from The
University of Alabama at Huntsville.
Her specialty areas include telecommunications, capital project evaluation, crisis recovery, and knowledge
management. Prior to pursuing a career
in academia, McManus gained professional experience through development
and delivery of information systems at
Motorola, Boeing Computer Support
Services (BCCS), and International
Business Machines (IBM).
Dr. Kristy Reynolds, new Bruno
Associate Professor of Marketing,
received her bachelors, masters, and
doctoral degrees from The University of
Alabama. Her areas of interest include

retail loyalty and patronage behavior,
retail shipping behavior, retail customer and salesperson relationships,
and online auctions and impulse buying. Before coming back home to UA,
Reynolds was assistant professor of
marketing at the University of Central
Florida and associate professor of marketing at Louisiana State University.
Jan Jones, management and
marketing program assistant, comes
to Culverhouse from the College of
Human and Environmental Sciences.
Pam Vickers was employed with
Gulf States Paper Company as marketing coordinator for the paperboard
packaging division before becoming
manager of admissions and student services for the M.B.A. program.
Freddie Stewart, former operations manager in the online support
division of Verizon Wireless, has joined
Culverhouse as technical support specialist for the Technology Group.

Karla Jordan, M.B.A. program
office assistant, worked in the College of
Nursing before joining Culverhouse.
Dr. Don Hooks, associate professor of economics and director of
graduate programs for the Department of
Economics, Finance, and Legal Studies,
retires from UA after 34 years of teaching.
Linda Davidson, program assistant
in the Department of Management and
Marketing, retires from UA after 33 years.
Dr. Mike Conerly replaces Dr. Edd
Mansfield as head of the Department
of Information Systems, Statistics, and
Management Science.
Dr. Gary Hoover is the new assistant dean for faculty and graduate student development.
Dr. Rob Morgan replaces Dr. Ron
Dulek as head of the Department of
Management and Marketing. v
AlumniNotes
1949
Herman A. Stribling Jr. (M.S. 54,

Ph.D. 67) is the first recipient of the
East Tennessee State University College
of Business and Technology Faculty
Lifetime Achievement Award. The
award honors individuals who have
provided lifelong contributions to their
department, the college, the university,
and the community.
1965
Douglas B. Nunnelley has been

reappointed vice chairman of Eastern
Health System.
1969
Claude H. Springfield has been

promoted to senior executive vice
president and chief credit policy officer
at Renasant Bank.
1970
Charles A. Boswell Jr. (M.B.A.) has

been appointed Colonial Bank's
executive vice president in charge of
credit administration for Alabama,
Georgia, and the Florida Panhandle.
1972
Harold H. Livingston has been

promoted to senior executive vice
president and chief credit officer at
Renasant Bank.
1974
Ernest A. Laird is president of the board

of directors of the Alabama Contemporary
Dance in Mobile, Alabamas only
contemporary dance company.
1976
William Babb has been reappointed

secretary of Eastern Health System.
1977
Bruce P. Ely has been appointed to the

advisory council of The University of
Alabama at Birminghams Department
of Accounting and Information Systems.
1979
Bryan R. Chandler has been appointed

managing shareholder at Jamison,
Money, Farmer, and Company PC.
Marvell Bivins Jr. (M.B.A. 99) has
been named vice president of audit and
compliance at Energen Corporation.
William Reynolds Ireland Jr. has been
promoted to executive vice president
and chief risk management officer of
First American Bank in Birmingham.
1981
Huey K. Wilson Jr. has been named vice

president of Human Relations Worldwide
Operations for Mattel. He formerly was
with Motorola in Hong Kong.
1985
Carleton K. Ambrose has been

appointed vice president of private
banking at Red Mountain Bank in
Birmingham.
Stephen D. Preston has been appointed
vice president, business development
and new venture services, at Eastern
Health System in Birmingham.
1986
Michael D. Ross (M.B.A. 89) has been

appointed executive vice president,
specialized commercial banking, of
Regions Financial Banking Corporation.
W. Charlton Bargeron Jr. has been
appointed vice president of residential
real estate at Red Mountain Bank in
Birmingham.
1987
Barry Stephenson and his wife,

Kendall (M.T.A. 91), announce
the birth of a son, Walker Barrett
Stephenson, born April 26, 2005.
Walker joins his three sisters, Leah,
Sarah, and Abigail. Barry currently
serves as Jefferson County treasurer,
and Kendall is a CPA in Birmingham.
1988
1994
Jeremy W. Anderson has been

promoted to regional manager,
Northeast region, with Chordus
Inc.Office Furniture USA division.
He has also completed the masters
in management program at Troy
State University. He and his wife,
Leah Wallace Anderson, will relocate
from Birmingham to Mount Joy,
Pennsylvania.
Dennis Jason has been named director

of business development for Logility.
Logility is an Atlanta-based supply
chain software company. Jason is
responsible for all aspects of Strategic
Reseller Alliances and Channel Partners.
He has been with Logility since 2000.
1995
Tim Bean is audit manager, vice

president, for Wells Fargo in Phoenix.
He and his wife recently welcomed their
third daughter, Darcy Kendall.
Wes Brasell has accepted a position as

finance manager for EmCares Pacific
West Region of Santa Barbara, California.
He will be based in the companys
corporate office in Dallas. Brasell was a
mens basketball team manager for the
Crimson Tide during 19901995.
1989
Steven L. Cost has been appointed vice

president and controller at ADTRAN
in Huntsville.
Jan Bellenger was recently awarded
Chairmans Club status at New South
Federal Savings Bank in Birmingham
for being among the top 10 loan
officer producers.
David C. Hinman and wife, Grace,
announce the birth of their first child,
Jacqueline Ann.
1990
Amanda Owen (Amy) Lawson ( J.D.

93) has joined the Realty South
Vestavia office.
Duane Donner, a founder of Founders

Investment Banking of Birmingham,
and his company recently were the
subjects of an article in The Birmingham
Business Journal.
George E. Mann, an avid hunter, was

featured on the cover of the November
2004 issue of the outdoor magazine,
Field & Stream. George and his wife,
Caroline, live in Auburn. They have
two children, Rosemary, 4; and G.
Thompson, 22 months.
1997
Nedra L. (Neki) McClinton recently

became a partner in the law firm of
Environmental Litigation Group PC in
Birmingham and is engaged to be married.
1998
Ron Bennett has been promoted to

manager of merchandise processes at
The Home Depot in Atlanta and has
been accepted into the M.B.A. program
at Emory University. He has also
passed the Green Belt examination in
Six Sigma.
1999
Kurt Burt Brooks Uhlir (M.A. 00)

recently accepted an appointment as
the chairperson of the International
Game Developers Association (IGDA)
Mobile Games Special Interest Group.
The game industry has grown from the
teenager in the basement to $16 billion
in annual sales with the average age of
the gamer now over 29. Uhlir oversees the advisory board, coordinates
the groups research into new technologies and business relationships, and
serves as the primary spokesman for
mobile games. Uhlir, an independent
technologist, has made presentations
around the world for IGDA, in addition to his primary business affairs role
with NAVETQ , the map data supplier
behind such systems as Google Maps,
car navigation systems, and OnStar.
Uhlir and his wife, Felecia (M.S. 00),
who works for PricewaterhouseCoopers,
live in Chicago.
2000
Tyler Adams has published his second

book, A Look Inside, a book of poetry.
His first book was Brothers Always.
Adams writes under the pen name
Crimson T Alexander.
2001
Kelly Jackson Wood has accepted

a position in the employee relations
department at Beau Rivage, the largest
casino on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
AlumniNotes
2002
Wyetta Morrow is
pursuing a master of
arts in management
from UA (May 2006).
This summer she was
one of 41 students
to participate in the
PGA Tour internship
program. After
attending orientation at
PGA Tour headquarters
in Ponte Vedra
Beach, Florida, she
traveled to Fairhaven,
Massachusetts, to work
as a human resources
intern for the Acushnet
Company. Titleist,
FootJoy, and Cobra
comprise the major
golf brands of Acushnet
Company, an operating
company of Fortune
Brands (NYSEFO).
Art Freeman (M.B.A.) has been

appointed vice president of commercial banking at Red Mountain Bank
in Birmingham.
2002
Krista Gale has been promoted to

senior associate at Stockamp and
Associates, a health-care consulting
firm in Portland, Oregon.
Jonathan W. Mitchell has been
promoted to assistant vice president
of private banking for Regions Banks
Birmingham professional services area.
Mitchell, a native of Fort Payne, joined
Regions in 2002 as a management
trainee and worked in customer service
before joining the private banking area.
2003
Christy D. Beverly is a financial

consultant with A. G. Edwards and
Sons in Corinth, Texas.
Crystal N. Ward (M.Acc. 04) has
joined the professional staff at the
accounting firm of Till, Hester, Eyer,
and Brown in Birmingham.
Elizabeth F. Chicarello has joined the
professional staff at the accounting
firm of Till, Hester, Eyer, and Brown
in Birmingham.
2004
Scott P. Jenkins has joined the professional staff at the accounting firm of Till,
Hester, Eyer, and Brown in Birmingham.
EMBA graduate promoted to

national director of marketing
at Sysmex America
immy R. Oaks, who earned his executive master of business administration at The University of Alabamas
Manderson Graduate School of
Business, has been named the national
director of marketing in charge of IVD
product marketing at Sysmex America.
Prior to his promotion, Oaks was
director of service marketing. In this
position he had a key role in packaging
the companys service offerings and in
providing the strategic directives for
the TechServices organization needed
to support Sysmex Americas long-term
vision and organizational growth.
Sysmex America is pleased to
acknowledge Mr. Oakss professional
contributions to our company in this
manner, said Michael Gannon, Sysmex
Americas vice president of sales and
marketing. His proven track record
within our organization, coupled with

his ability to translate strategy into
measurable outcomes, will serve Sysmex
America well as we continue to focus
on our market position here in the
United States.
Prior to joining Sysmex America,
Oaks had an 11-year career with
Hill-Rom Company Inc., serving as
the companys director of strategic
marketing for both the Services and
Aftermarket Services Divisions.
Sysmex America, the U.S. headquarters of Sysmex Corporation (Kobe,
Japan), is a world leader in clinical
laboratory systematization and solutions, including clinical diagnostics and
automation and information systems
that elevate clinical laboratory medicine
to first-line patient care. v
From
Tuscaloosa to
New York to
London
ighteen upper-division
Culverhouse students spent
a week in New York and a
week in London as part of Interim
course GBA 310 Introduction
to Corporate America. Top, students in front of New York skyline; left center and left lower,
at PricewaterhouseCoopers in
London; center right, in London,
and lower right, in class in London
hotel room with Dr. Ron Dulek
Calendar of Events
Culverhouse College of
Commerce and Business
Administration
Fall 2005
October 21

CES LuncheonHuntsville
12:001:00 p.m., Von Braun Civic Center
October 22

Bama vs. Tennessee Pregame Picnic

Time: TBA
Alston Hall Lower Lobby
October 29

Bama vs. Utah State Pregame Picnic

Time: TBA
November 4

Alabama Association for Higher

Education in Business
12:003:00 p.m.
Alston Parlor and Conference Room
November 11 Lowder Lecture Series

Guest Speaker: Olin King

November 12 Bama vs. LSU Pregame Picnic

Time: TBA

November 17 CES LuncheonMontgomery

12:001:00 p.m.

Capital City Club
December 2

CES LuncheonTuscaloosa
12:302:00 p.m.
Alston Hall Lower Lobby, Alston 20, Alston 30
December 8

January 24

Lowder Lecture Series

Guest Speaker: Jeff Simon
Senior Managing Director, Cochief Institutional
OfficerEquity, Senior Portfolio Manager
Large Cap Value
Bear Stearns Asset Management Inc.
Economic Outlook Conference
Center for Business and Economic Research
Embassy Suites Hotel, Montgomery
Sloan Y. Bashinsky Sr.
loan Y. Bashinsky Sr., retired chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Golden Enterprises,
the parent company of Golden Flake
Snack Foods, died August 2, 2005.
The University of Alabamas
Bashinsky Computer Center, part of
the Culverhouse College of Commerce,
was made possible through Bashinkys
generosity. He also provided operating
funds that allowed the computer center
to establish a reputation as one of the
finest in the country.
For the past 12 years, students
have had access to some of the finest
computer facilities in the nation, Dean
J. Barry Mason said. Over and over
we hear that our facilities are second to
none and we owe that to the generosity
of Mr. Bashinsky.
Completed in 1994, the Sloan Y.
Bashinsky Sr. Computer Center now
offers business students and faculty
three state-of-the-art, 40-workstation
multimedia classrooms; 60 open-lab
workstations; and 20 graduate-student
workstations. These workstations provide faculty with state-of-the-art instructional resources to teach the most
advanced microcomputer-based business applications in use by businesses

today. Students are provided with full
Internet capabilities, including personal
Internet addresses and Web pages.
Bashinsky was born on November
2, 1919, in Troy, Alabama, and had
been a Birmingham resident for
over 75 years. He is survived by his
wife of 37 years, Joann F. Bashinsky;
two sons, Sloan Y. Bashinsky Jr. and
Thomas Major Bashinsky (Leslie);
two daughters, Elizabeth Bashinsky
Krebs and Suzanne Bashinsky Ash;
one brother, Leo Bashinsky; 11 grandchildren, Alice Lawson Bashinsky
( Jim Krandall), Nelle Major Bashinsky
Colen ( John), Sloan Elizabeth
Bashinsky, Brooks Major Bashinsky,
Holt Young Bashinsky, Nelle Kylie
Bashinsky, Landon Edwin Ash, Edward
Cassels Krebs, Troy Neilson Krebs,
Christopher Noble Krebs, and Charles
Maxim Krebs; and two great-grandchildren, Avery Cohen and Jordan Cohen.
Bashinsky attended Princeton
University and served in the United
States Army Air Forces during World
War II.
Bashinsky joined Golden Flake, then

known as Magic City Foods, in 1946.
He worked in route sales and production before becoming president in 1956.
Bashinsky converted Golden Flake to a
publicly traded company in 1968 so that
the employees could become stockholders
and share in the success of the company.
In 1995, Bashinsky received the
Snack Food Associations Circle of
Honor, the most prestigious award given
in the snack food industry.
He retired from Golden Enterprises
in 1996 and served as chairman emeritus
of Golden Enterprises until his death.
Bashinsky was inducted into the
Alabama Business Hall of Fame in 1993
and was a former board member of the
Eye Foundation Hospital, Childrens
Hospital, and St. Vincents Foundation.
He was a former trustee of Samford
University and held honorary degrees
from Samford University and The
University of Alabama.
The Bashinsky Foundation, which
he founded in 1986, has supported
numerous charitable organizations and
yearly funds scholarships for the children
of Golden Flake employees.
administration from Louisiana State

University in 1947 and a doctor of philosophy from the University of Illinois
in 1950.
He joined The University of
Alabama in 1950 and retired in 1983
as professor of marketing and director of the International Trade Center,
which was renamed the W. R. Bennett
International Trade Center. He had also
served as director of the graduate division of the business school and as associate dean of the business school.
Bennett received many honors
during his career, including an honorary doctor of humane letters from The
University of Alabama, 1990; and the
Algernon Sidney Sullivan Award, 1989.

He was named Alabama World Trade
Association Man of the Year, 1980;
honorary harbormaster of the Port of
Mobile, 1983; and was a charter member of the North Alabama International
Trade Association.
He was preceded in death by his
wife, Anne Armstrong Bennett, and son,
Alan Lee Bennett.
He is survived by his daughter,
Patricia Purushotham of Huntsville;
grandson, William Purushotham of
Athens, Tennessee; brother-in-law,
Bruce Armstrong, and his wife, Frances,
of Athens, Georgia; and several nieces
and nephews.
William Ralbert Bennett
illiam Ralbert Bennett,

86, professor emeritus of
marketing and international business at the Culverhouse
College of Commerce, died May 1,
2005, at Crestwood Medical Center in
Huntsville, Alabama.
Born July 2, 1918, in Evergreen,
Alabama, Bennett graduated from
Summerdale Consolidated School in
1935 and received his bachelor of arts
from Birmingham-Southern College in
1939. He joined the United States Army
in January 1942 and served in North
Africa, Italy, and the Pacific. After his
honorable discharge from the army in
1945, he received a master of business

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