93 ▼ He is a web developer, hosting consultant, and specialist in analyzing Internet-related technologies. Burnham is the founder of Southpoint.com, a travel destination portal, and co-author of Professional JSP, Wrox and Ace the Technical Interview, Fourth Edition, Osborne McGraw-Hill. Chris Dardaman, president of Polstra & Dardaman LLC of Norcross, Ga., recently was named one of the nation’s top 100 financial planners by Mutual Funds magazine. Polstra & Dardaman is a leading wealth management firm.
85 Kevin Ivey of Meridian was honored at the Technological/Engineering Emmy Awards in New York with the highest honor in the television industry. He received an Emmy for his work in creating the technology behind CNN Sports Illustrated and CNN Financial Network. He recently returned to Meridian to be an independent consultant. James E. Newsome (M.S. ’85) has been appointed by President Bush as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Previously, he served as the executive vice president of the Mississippi Cattlemen’s Association and Beef Council.
87 Linda Holcombe-Coleman is executive director of SpikeForce Inc., a not-for-profit organization that coordinates volleyball camps, annual scholarship funds, and invitational tournaments to benefit less fortunate kids. John M. Landrum of Taylor Mill, Ky., has been named manager of coordination with the Marathon Ashland Petroleum joint venture. He most recently was a business analyst in the corporate planning and analysis group of Landrum Ashland Inc.
88 Jon B. Sanderson has been elected managing director of Morgan Keegan & Co. in Memphis, Tenn. Paul R. Snider of Pensacola Beach, Fla., has been named to Merrill Lynch’s Chairman’s Club. He has been a financial adviser with the firm Snider since 1992.
Nora W. Taylor of Lubbock, Texas, is band director at Smyer High School. Under Taylor’s direction, the Smyer High School Marching Band placed second in the Class 1A competition.
94 Brian Lee Hawkins of Starkville is managing editor for the Starkville Daily News. He is a member of the Public Relations Association of Mississippi. Frank E. “Buddy” McRae of Ridgeland has taken a job with the law firm of Watkins Ludlam Winter & Stennis. Kristin Flautt Zeppelin of Arlington, Va., was recently promoted from recruiting manager to director of human resources for SAVVIS Communications.
90 Jonathan K. Hasson (M.S. ’92) of Marietta, Ga., has been appointed district manager for the Georgia/Florida District of ADS Environmental Services. He previously was on assignment for Vivendi Water in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
91 Bert Greenwalt (Ph.D. ’91) of Hazen, Ark., was re-elected to the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. He is a professor of agriculture economics at Arkansas State University. Mardi Spayd Hasson has relocated with her family to Greenwalt Marietta, Ga., from San Juan, Puerto Rico.
92 Tanya K. Finch of Booneville is executive director of the Booneville Area Chamber of Commerce. Lane B. Reed of Meadville has been appointed city prosecutor for the town of Meadville. He is a member of the Mississippi Prosecutors Association.
95 Jonathan Britt Amacker was graduation speaker for the Darden School of Business class of 2001 at the University of Virginia. He currently is in the investment banking division of Deutsche Bank in London. Darryl Neese has been named a financial Neese representative for Strategic Financial Partners.
96 Kevin Duane Brooks recently relocated with his wife Barbara Wright Brooks to Frisco, Texas. Joy P. Lewis has relocated with her family to Dayton, Ohio, from Singapore.
97 David T. Gleeson (M.A. ’97) authored The Irish in the South, 1815-1877. He is assistant professor of history at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Ga. Shawn Hobbs has received the 2001 Francis Mah Travel Fellowship. Hobbs will study architecture in Rome and Florence, Italy. Hobbs most recently served as a Hnedak Bobo Group, Inc. intern architect.
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