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17. October 26: The Frank Pitts Lecture Series hosted a lunch to present scholarship awards to Cox BBA and MBA students and to hear guest speaker Doug Foshee, president and CEO of El Paso Energy. Shown here are scholarship winners with Bill Custard (BBA ’57)(center): Troy Vaughn, Matt Bleakley, Matthew Evans, Grant Johnson and James Alexander.
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18. October 27: Kevin Knox and Jim Bryan,
director of BBA Admissions, along with Cox Alumni Board member, Trey Chappell (BBA ’00) hosted an alumni and prospective student/ parent reception in Scottsdale, Arizona. Pictured here: Lela Yu, Rayford Irvin (MBA ’99), Deborah Poulas (MBA ’06) and Andrew Hinz.
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along with Cox Board member, Chris Reilly (PMBA ’01), hosted an alumni and prospective student/parent reception in San Antonio. Shown here: Allison Hoeltzel, Phil Webb and John Carter — all alumni from the MBA class of ’01.
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20. November 9-10: Dean Niemi hosted alumni
and prospective student/parent receptions in Greenville, South Carolina and Charlotte, North Carolina. In Greenville, the co-hosts were Lauren and Phil Hughes and in Charlotte, Mark Holoman (MBA ’03). Pictured here in Charlotte: Alfredo Suarez (BBA ’02), Clayton Dallas (BBA ’10), John Campbell (MBA ’01) and Kim Campbell.
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21. November 12: Linda Kao, assistant dean for global programs hosted Chris Exline (BA ’87) as the keynote speaker for the Global Leadership Program kickoff event. Exline is the president and CEO for Home Essentials and lives in Hong Kong. He served as SMU student body president while in school. 22. November 16: The exclusive survey results of the SMU Cox CEO Survey were reported by Cox Professor Mickey Quiñones at a reception sponsored by DCEO magazine and SMU Cox. Gary Kelley, CEO of Southwest Airlines was named CEO of the year for the second year in a row.
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23. November 17: For the 20th year in a row, the Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship and its sponsors held the Dallas 100™ Awards at the Meyerson Symphony Center. This outstanding awards program celebrates and recognizes the fastest-growing, privately-held companies in the Dallas area. Carl Sewell (BBA ’66), former chairman of the Board of SMU Trustees and former chairman of the Cox Executive Board served as the keynote speaker. A special thanks to all of the sponsors: BKD, Carr, Chase, CresaPartners, Dallas Business Journal, EVOS, Executive Press, HSSK, Hub International, KRLD News Radio and Stewart Organization. 24. November 30: Dean Niemi hosted an alumni and prospective student/parents reception in Atlanta, Georgia. Shown here: Virginia Sullivan, Raymond Singletary (BBA ’06), Stephen Collier (BBA ’04) and Christina Sgier.
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