Accounting 2008 Banquet a Resounding Success

OASIS, BAP, and NABA hosted the 25th annual Accounting Awards banquet on Friday, April 18. The event was a great success with more than 150 individuals in attendance. Representatives from Blue Care Network, Clayton McKervey, DKSS, Deloitte, Doeren Mayhew, E & Y, KPMG, O’Keefe and Associates, Plante Moran, PWC, UHY, The Rehmann Group, UHY, and Virchow Krause and Associates attended the evening function. Also in attendance were 65 undergraduate and graduate students with sixteen SBA faculty members.

Judy Hegelund, National Controller for Deloitte and SBA Accounting Alum ’95 served as the guest speaker. Her inspiring comments provided our students with important insights on leading a successful career that they will remember long after graduation!

Congratulations to the following accounting and finance scholarship awardees. On behalf of these students and our faculty team, we extend sincere appreciation for generosity of so many who made these awards possible. Know that these gifts create life‐changing opportunities.

• Professor Ronald M. Horwitz Outstanding Finance Student Endowed Scholarship:
  • Amy Howard and Chad Ridgway– Co‐winners
• Accounting & Finance Advisory Board Accounting Scholarship:
  • Ashley Denard
• Accounting & Finance Advisory Board Finance Scholarship:
  • Magdalena Sofia Molina
• Bud Kulesza Family Endowed Scholarship:
  • Anthony Debay
• Derderian Kann Seyferth & Salucci Scholarship:
  • Michael Paye
• Dicron Tafralian Merit Scholarship:
  • Carley Laux
• Linda Hardman Award:
  • Lori Dorko
• Doeren Mayhew Scholarship:
  • Michael Ferguson
• The Rehmann Group:
  • To BAP to sponsor attendance at National meeting
• T.M.B.K.S. Scholarship Award ‐ Accounting:
  • Andrea Hitchcock
• Jon & Gwyn Hartman Scholarship:
  • Ashley Eckhout