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Alumnus Gorley Takes Home Top Honor at ASCAP Awards Ashley Gorley, a 1999 Belmont graduate from the Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business, received the Songwriter of the Year award at this year’s ASCAP Country Music Awards held at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, an invitation-only gala that salutes the songwriters and publishers of ASCAP’s most performed country songs of the past year.
Hininger Named CEO of Corrections Corporation of America
Gorley wrote or co-wrote Trace Adkins’ “You’re Gonna Miss This,” Brad Paisley and Keith Urban’s “Start a Band” and Darius Rucker’s “It Won’t Be Like This for Long.” “You’re Gonna Miss This” was also named one of ASCAP’s five most-played songs in the past year and Country Song of the Year. n
Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest provider of corrections management services to government agencies, announced this fall that Massey School alumnus Damon Hininger was being promoted from company president and chief operating officer to Chief Executive Officer. Hininger will also serve as a director. CCA is a NYSE traded $1.6 billion corporation headquartered in Nashville. A 2001 Massey graduate, Hininger noted, “The real world experience of the faculty in the Massey program, along with the small class sizes and the diverse work experience of my peers, made a very robust and rich learning environment for me.” n
Carter Recognized in Nashville Technology Awards Senior Hank Carter (Russellville, Ala.) was recognized as the 2009 “IT Student of the Year” at the inaugural Nashville Technology Awards at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. He was introduced and honored before an audience of more than 400 leaders of the technology community in Middle Tennessee. The awards recognized individuals and companies whose success has helped grow Nashville and the surrounding areas into a hub for technology. Carter is an honors student in Computer Science, working on a thesis in information security. On campus he has been active in the Mathematics and Computer Science student group and recently participated in the programming competition at Tennessee Tech. n
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