CLASSNOTES
Business
IN MEMORY OF CAYLE BYWATER Before grad student Cayle Bywater (BBA ’02) disappeared early last year she started a project to benefit Nuci’s Space, a musicians’ resource and support center where she volunteered in Athens. She hoped that the largescale database she was compiling would significantly increase the efficiency and range of the center’s rehearsal room reservation system. After Bywayter was found dead Jan. 11, 2008, her classmates in the master of Internet SPECIAL technology program at the Gwinnett campus decided to continue the project in her honor. Bywater’s endeavor became a final project for five of her classmates. The new system, which they named the Cayle Project, is an internal web application that assists staff members with practice room and equipment reservations, as well as with vital customer reporting data. As of May 2009, the database is an integral part of business at Nuci’s Space. —by Caroline Buttimer
Wesley Alexander Griffin (MBA ’01) of Chesapeake, Va., is an active duty naval supply officer and is currently assigned as military cooperation division fund manager, NATO headquarters, Supreme Allied Command Transformation, Norfolk, Va. He won first place in the 2008 Defense Acquisition University Alumni Association Hirsch Research Paper competition. The winning paper was titled “The Future of Integrated Supply Chain Management Utilizing Performance Based Logistics” and focused on current logistics concepts that operate in traditional, hierarchial command and control structures.
Education
Barbara Gartin (EdD ’82) received the Burton Blatt Humanitarian Award from the Council for Exceptional Children’s Division on Developmental Disabilities. Gartin is a professor of special education at the University of Arkansas. Brian Culp (EdD ’05) of Indianapolis, Ind., was awarded a Fulbright-Hays scholarship to Kenya in order to study Kenyan government and education in the summer of 2009. Culp is an assistant professor of physical education.
Environment & Design
Erik Nelson (MLA ’95) of Portland, Ore., is a principal in Yellow Mountain Stoneworks Inc. and supplied cladding material for the Microsoft West Campus in Redmond, Wash.
Journalism
Robert K. Kramer (MA ’72) of Lawrenceville retired from NCR Corporation, where he last served as corporate media relations director.
Law
Edward T.M. Garland (AB ’63, LLB ’65) was recognized among lawyers who have been listed in Best Lawyers for 25 years. He also received the third most votes for the top 10 among Georgia’s Super Lawyers 2009 and was included in Georgia Trend magazine’s Legal Elite for his work in criminal defense law. Barbara Mendel Mayden (JD ’76) of Nashville, Tenn., is
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