CLASS NOTES
1999 Lauren Stamps Moore, B.S. 1999, of San Antonio, Texas, and husband Mark Moore welcomed their first child, Nicole Elizabeth Moore, on Dec. 15, 2011.
2000 Sandi Pullen Beason, B.A. 2000, of Byram, recently received national, state, and local awards for her work in the communications field. Beason has served as the public information officer for the Clinton Public School District since October 2008. During the 20122013 school year, she was named one of the National School Public Relations Association’s Top 35 Under 35 school public relations practitioners, and she also received the Mississippi School Public Relations Association’s highest honor, Communicator of the Year. In February, she received the Emerging Practitioner of the Year award from the central chapter of the Public Relations Association of Mississippi. In February, the Clinton Public School District was selected for a site visit by First Lady Michelle Obama and a taping of the Rachael Ray TV show. Beason worked to coordinate and publicize the event with the First Lady’s staff, Rachael Ray’s production team, Secret Service, the school district department heads, administrators, faculty, staff, and parents. She and her husband Mark Beason have one daughter, Adeline. George Bradley Bennett, B.B.A. 2000 and M.Acc. 2001, of Northampton, Mass., graduated Aug. 4, 2012, from the University of Alabama with a Doctor of Philosophy in Accounting. He worked at KPMG LLP and Millsaps College before entering the Ph.D. program at the University of Alabama. In April
2012, Bennett successfully defended his dissertation, finishing the Ph.D. program with a 4.0 GPA and as recipient of the 2012 Beta Gamma Sigma Outstanding Doctoral Student Award. During his four years at the University of Alabama, he taught undergraduate auditing to senior accounting majors and completed two successful research studies in addition to his work on his dissertation. His research papers have been accepted to The Accounting Review, the American Accounting Association’s annual and Audit section meetings, and the International Symposium for Audit Research in Quebec City, Quebec, in 2011. In September 2012, Bennett began his academic career as a full-time, tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Mass. He teaches financial accounting and auditing at the undergraduate level and audit behavioral research is his primary research focus.
2001 Zao Wang, B.S. 2001, of Brooklyn, NY, had his film, Honeymoon Suite, premier at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival. Commissioned by a boutique hotel in China and made by a team of international filmmakers, the film was the only entry from China at Tribeca this year. Wang studied physics and philosophy at Millsaps before attending New York University’s graduate film school, where he received his M.F.A. in directing. He has worked closely with producers both in China and the U.S., making short films and commercials. He has directed several feature documentary series for Shanghai TV/SMG, including a six-part documentary series on the future of creative fields around the world. His films have been selected for several international film festivals, including
the LA Shorts Fest, Shanghai International Festival, Pusan International Film Festival, and the New York International Asian-American Film Festival.
2004 Joye Cox Anestis, B.A. 2004, of Hattiesburg, received a Doctor of Philosophy in clinical psychology from Florida State University in December 2012. Along with her husband, Mike, she is currently employed as a faculty member in the department of psychology at the University of Southern Mississippi.
2008 Taylor Allee Harter, B.A. 2008 and M.B.A. 2009, of San Francisco, married Shane Harter in a small ceremony at San Francisco City Hall on Dec. 31, 2012. Taylor Harter is a project manager with Spencer Technologies, and Shane Harter is a senior software engineer at Trulia. com.
2010 Katie Tebo, 2010, of Baton Rouge, La., is pursing a master’s degree in counseling psychology at the University of Tennessee. She was recently inducted into Chi Sigma Iota, the international honor society for academic and professional counseling. She will receive her M.S. in August 2014.
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