College of Business Administration Hosts Alumni Events

Roland Hendricks '80 of Dow Chemical signs his name on a support column during the College of Business Administration's Make Your Mark ceremony while Dow employee Donovan Pitre '03 looks on.

The Make Your Mark ceremony, held on the grounds of the new Smith-Hutson Addition, was the highlight of a series of events recently hosted by the College of Business Administration in honor of its alumni.

During the Make Your Mark ceremony representatives of SpawGlass, contractor for the college’s new building, temporarily halted construction and accompanied alumni and guests to the center of the site. There, geared with hard hats and permanent markers, alumni wrote their names and class years on the new building’s concrete support columns, each making a personal and unique mark on the future of the college.

Alumni Appreciation 2004 began with the annual Academic Awards ceremony on April 22, held in the Ron and Linda Mafrige Auditorium. All College of Business Administration alumni, faculty, and scholarship recipients and their families were invited to the evening ceremony to watch as 57 scholarships totaling $64,000 were awarded to this year’s top business students. Several scholarship donors – many of them alumni – were on hand to participate in the ceremony and to present their awards.

Alumni Appreciation 2004 continued the next morning in the Roger D. Lawrence Banking Center, where Sam Houston State University president and COBA alumnus Jim Gaertner ’70 officially welcomed the group. R. Dean Lewis ’67, dean, presided over the state-of-the- college presentation, which began with a pictorial overview of the college and included individual reports on academic programs made by each department chair. The session concluded with a review of the Living History project – a collection of memories and photos contributed by individual graduates – and other publications of the college.

A technology demonstration was held in the Dow Technology Center following the Make Your Mark ceremony and, after a brief question-and-answer session, Alumni Appreciation 2004 closed with a well-attended and festive luncheon in the Lowman Student Center.

For more information about the College of Business Administration and its events, please contact Margaret Quarles at mquarles@shsu.edu

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Media Contacts: Margaret Quarles, Julia May
April 30, 2004
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