from the military in 2007 at the rank of lieutenant colonel. Price has served as president of the Louisiana Veterinary Medical Association (LVMA), as a member of the LVMA Board of Directors, as the alternate delegate from the LVMA to the AVMA House of Delegates, and on the House Advisory Committee. He was president of the American Association of Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS) and a member of the AALAS Board of Trustees. He is a member of the Professional Advisory Committee of Southland Home Health Care and has served on the Caddo Parish Animal Control Advisory Board. Price received a bachelor’s degree in biology from Southern Methodist University in 1969.
Michael L. Smith (1981 BACH BUS, 1983 MBA) has been named president and chief executive officer of Oglethorpe Power Corporation. The appointment was effective Nov. 6. Smith has served as the president and chief executive officer of Georgia Transmission Corporation since 2005 and has over thirty years of energy industry experience. During his tenure at Georgia Transmission, assets grew from $1.4 billion to $2.0 billion, and the company set records for improved reliability and service to its members. Prior to joining Georgia Transmission as senior vice president and chief financial officer in 2003, Smith served as executive director of the Committee of Chief Risk Officers, a nonprofit trade association committed to compiling best risk management
practices and standards for the energy industry that he co-founded in 2002. Before that, he held a variety of finance, managerial, and risk management positions in the energy industry. John Stewart (1989 BACH BUS), a partner at Altus Wealth Management in Baton Rouge has managed client relationships and provided client service as an investment adviser for twenty-one years. Stewart teaches a course, “Financial Strategies for Successful Retirement,” through the LSU Division of Continuing Education and offers securities and investment advisory services through Geneos. He received an M.B.A. from the University of New Orleans in 1991.
LSU Alumni Magazine | Winter 2013
53