Chuck ’62 and Beverly Moreland say they hope to help Mays Business School attract the best-qualified students by providing monetary assistance when needed. To do so, they have established the Chuck ’62 and Beverly Moreland Scholarship in Business.
The John A. ’92 and Kimberly Kerner Endowed Study Abroad Scholarship was created by a $25,000 gift to Mays Business School. The scholarship recipients will be full-time business students who plan to study abroad.
When Tom Jenkins ’92 recently spoke to Mays Business School undergraduate students, he came prepared with the honest, practical career advice students long to hear from experts in the business field.
Cindy and Tom Locke ’74 have committed $50,000 toward endowed scholarships for students pursuing undergraduate degrees at Mays Business School. The gift is part of the pair’s planned estate gifts, called the Cindy and Tom Locke Endowment.
“Ten years ago, I thought we were going to run out of means for energy,” president Dan A. Hughes ’80 said to a group of students during a recent conversational lunch. However, with the discovery of the Barnett Shale and other sources, Hughes’ company has seen a plethora of opportunity in Texas and Louisiana and in countries such as Columbia, among others.
Jim Stolarski ’83 reminisced recently to a class of Mays students about his 28-year career in business strategy, operations reengineering, and mergers and acquisitions. “I can tell you with certainty this is a lot of fun, a really cool field. You can plan to get in and work a 12-hour day every day – and love it. It is amazing and really a lot of fun.
Robert (Bob) ’77 and Janet Loeffler wanted to help students with financial needs gain degrees in business, so they contributed $100,000 to fund the Robert D. ’77 and Janet K. Loeffler Scholarship in Business.
Business graduates Hal Hornburg ’68, Bob Surovik ’58 and Don Adam ’57 are among this year’s recipients of the 2012 Distinguished Alumnus Award, the highest honor bestowed upon a former student of Texas A&M University.
Balance, timing and the ability to keep up with his commitments are the traits Steven Bender ’78 says keeps him afloat in the business world.
Forty members of Mays Business Student Council traveled recently to Chicago. They toured several companies, including marketing agency commonground, and visited company co-founder and managing partner Sherman Wright ’92, a 2010 Aggie 100 recipient.
