HONORS CONVOCATION 2014 PHOTO: DOUG PECK PHOTOGRAPHY
WALL STREE T JOURNAL AWARD Given annually to a Management Program student who demonstrates outstanding scholarship.
Casey Quan, Valedictorian
Finance Professor Soumendra De presented the Wall Street Journal Award to Casey Quan and Michele Canali at Honors Convocation. Below, Michele with his family from Parma, Italy at Commencement.
Casey Quan and Michele Canali Wall Street Journal Awards
Casey Quan is known for her preciseness and exactitude in both her verbal responses and written assignments. She is one of those students who provide faculty the reassuring but not-so-common feeling as they read her written works that she has the innate ability to synthesize eloquently and yet succinctly what was lectured in the classroom. Her peers consider her extremely smart and compassionate and the faculty would have no hesitation in ranking her as one of the best that has crossed their path. Michele Canali is a dedicated scholar who always aspires to go beyond himself, does his work diligently and does not hesitate to point out a professorial error when it does occur in those rarest of moments. He is described by his peers as playful but deadly serious and the faculty in his major field of study rates him as one who is most likely to join their ranks. Michele’s scholarly ambitions and meticulous attention to detail should stand him in good stead in the years ahead."
Soumendra De Professor, Finance
G PE PHOTO: DOU
APHY CK PHOTOGR
Casey Quan, a finance major from Belmont, CA started a job after Commencement with Marcus & Millichap, a real estate investment firm. They provide sales, research information and advisory services for multifamily, retail, office, single-tenant net-lease, self-storage, seniors housing, manufactured homes, hospitality, land and special assets. "There's small and there's smaller," she grinned as she talked about the size of Menlo College. At a small school like Menlo, I could make an impact." Menlo College is a great for taking a very challenging major such as accounting or finance, because of the experience of the teachers. They give you great transferable skills and awesome internships." Michele Canali, from Parma, Italy has an internship lined up this summer with First Republic Private Wealth Management, an investment management branch at First Republic Bank. A finance major, he said, "I liked my relationship with my classmates because I could count on them for help. This was valuable in our hardest finance class, derivatives." MENLO COLLEGE
37