by mark | Sep 25, 2010 | - Summer 2010 -, Alumni, News from TABA
As the lazy, hazy days of summer come to an end, the TABA board is actively working to build upon the successes from last year. Planning for the 31st annual Tulane Business Forum is in full swing, and we are actively soliciting sponsorship. This year’s theme is...
by mark | Sep 25, 2010 | - Summer 2010 -, Alumni
This year’s Freeman School commencement ceremony was nothing special, and according to Dean Angelo DeNisi, that’s what made it special indeed. In his introductory remarks at this year’s ceremony, DeNisi said that each of his first four commencements had been...
by mark | Sep 25, 2010 | - Summer 2010 -, Alumni
On March 3, Freeman’s Shanghai Alumni Association hosted a dinner at the Shanghai Radisson Xing Guo Hotel. More than 60 alumni of Freeman’s Asia Executive MBA program attended the event, which featured presentations by Dean Angelo DeNisi and Jevons Lee of the Freeman...
by mark | Sep 25, 2010 | - Summer 2010 -, Alumni, In Memoriam
E. Spencer Lazarus Jr. (BBA ’35) Martin F. Schmidt (BBA ’40) Marshall F. Ordemann Sr. (’41) Myron Burnstein (BBA ’42) Emile V. Gros Jr. (BBA ’42) Robert G. Menefee (MBA ’42) John W. Quinn (BBA ’42) Wilton K. Duckworth (BBA ’43) Clifford F. Favrot Jr. (’43) Robert C....
by mark | Sep 25, 2010 | - Summer 2010 -, Alumni, In Memoriam
Douglas N. Schantz, president of Sequent Energy Management, died in New Orleans on March 5 after apparently falling accidentally into the Mississippi River. Schantz, who served on the board of the Tulane Energy Institute, had been in New Orleans to present a gift of...
by mark | Sep 25, 2010 | - Summer 2010 -, Alumni, My Brilliant Career
For agent Michael Van Dyck (BSM ’81), the entertainment business is more than just a career. It’s a calling. Which is fitting, considering that his life sounds a little like a Hollywood script. Van Dyck’s journey began when he graduated from Tulane in 1981. Ambivalent...