To meet surging enrollments, enhance industry-leading programming and provide new, state-of-the-art learning spaces for the next generation of students, the A. B. Freeman School of Business has begun a major expansion and renovation of Goldring/Woldenberg Hall.
William A. “Bill” Goldring (BBA ’64) has quietly built the New Orleans-based Sazerac Co. into the largest producer of distilled spirits in America, with a portfolio of top-selling brands including Buffalo Trace, Southern Comfort, Fireball, Eagle Rare and Pappy Van Winkle. Now, through an anchor gift to Tulane University for the expansion of the A. B. Freeman School of Business, Goldring is lending his family’s name and support to the third major business school building campaign of his lifetime.
As the A. B. Freeman School of Business begins the 2016–17 academic year, I am proud to introduce myself as the new president of the Tulane Association of Business Alumni (TABA).
Over the course of two pomp-and-circumstance-filled days, nearly 1,000 new graduates — hailing from 24 countries and representing over a dozen different educational programs — received their diplomas from the A. B. Freeman School of Business, an all-time high.
Atlanta businessman and nonprofit leader Douglas Hertz (A&S ’74, MBA ’76) has been named chair-elect of the Board of Tulane, the university’s main governing body. His three-year term as chairman will begin July 1, 2017.
Millie Pilié Bradley (A&S ’73, MBA ’75) was a few weeks into maternity leave her second child when she got an unexpected phone call from her boss. It was 1983, and Bradley, a systems manager in Exxon’s chemical division in Houston, had recently decided to work part time when she returned from her leave.
