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Business@FHU
An e-newsletter of the School of Business
at Freed-Hardeman University
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Summer 2004 Volume
1, Number 4
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In This Issue
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ACBSP Reaffirmation
·
Faculty Mission Efforts
·
New Finance Professor
·
Senior Retreat
The mission of the School of Business is to glorify God by
providing a student-centered education that prepares graduates for service to
Christ as business professionals.
Rickey A. Brooks, D.A.
Richard T. Brown, Ph.D., PCM
James Q. Edmonds, J.D.
C. Ray Eldridge, D.B.A., CQM
Lee E. Hibbett, M.B.A. , PCM
Vicki M. Johnson, Ed.D., CPS
Judy M. McKenzie, M.S., CPA
Kenneth O. Moran, M.B.A.
Michael H. Oliver, D.B.A., CPA
James G. Shelton, Ph.D., CPA
Keith W. Smith, Ph.D., CPA
Dwayne H. Wilson, Ph.D.
Senior Awards
Wall
Street Journal Award to top senior – Follin Childs
Outstanding
Senior in:
Accounting – Ashley McAdams
Agribusiness – Jason Deffenbaugh
Finance
– Rob Hatchett
Human
Resource Management – Erin Kull
Management
– Sarah Decker
Marketing
- Kristie Mayo Riley
Jenny Ary
Terra
Burress
Candace
Cook
Amanda
Creason
Anton
Kryuchov
Abby
Miller
Heather
Morris
Brian
Peacock
Andrew
Williams
Dr. Garey Perkins
retired from the School of Business at the end of May
after six years as Professor of Agribusiness and Economics. Garey and Banks
moved to Hot Springs Village in Arkansas to be near family
and several really nice golf courses. All of us at Freed-Hardeman appreciate
their outstanding service and wish them well in their retirement.
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From the Dean
 Our
first year in the Brown-Kopel Business
Center proved to be an
outstanding one for the School
of Business.
Our students continue to excel in intercollegiate competitions. The Business
Team once again came home from San Diego
with a first place trophy. Our Case Competition Team, in its first ever trip
to the Society for Advancement of Management convention, placed second
overall. We continue to receive reports of graduates passing the Certified
Public Accounting exam, succeeding in graduate schools, and doing well in
various careers.
One of the highlights of the year was the site visit by an
ACBSP visiting committee, resulting in the reaffirmation of our national
accreditation for ten years. We are convinced that we have an outstanding
business program, but it is always nice to have outside confirmation.
This year also brought some changes to our faculty. At the
end of the year, Dr. Garey Perkins retired from the university. We appreciate
very much his years of outstanding service. We are excited to welcome Mr. Ken
Moran to our faculty. Ken brings excellent academic credentials and wonderful
business experience to the School
of Business.
We continue to strengthen our academic programs. The
launching of a new major in Management Information Systems is an important
addition to our offerings. We continue to explore other options for improving
the academic experiences of our students.
Another of the highlights of the past year has been the
opportunity we have had to show off the BKBC. Numerous visitors have toured
the facility, including many business alumni. If you have not visited yet, we
would love to see you.
Jim Edmonds
Dean, FHU
School of Business
Faculty Families Involved in Mission
Efforts Around the World
Jim Shelton and Family in the United Kingdom
Jim and Lori
Shelton and their two daughters,
Sarah and Hannah, took a week out of their trip to the United
Kingdom
this past summer to work  at
the British
Bible
School
in Corby,
England. For over thirty years the British
Bible
School
has provided men and women with the opportunity to engage in a serious study
of the word of God within a close-knit, family environment. Students from
both the United
Kingdom
and abroad come to the school with a view to becoming better equipped through
their study of the word to serve God according to the abilities he has given
them. Established in 1969 in Northern
Ireland,
the school moved in 1979 to its present location in the East
Midlands of England. The director of the school is Patrick
Boyns.
 The
Sheltons spent five days cleaning, plastering, and painting at the British Bible School. The British Bible School is one of
the works supported by the Estes Church of Christ in Henderson. After spending a week at the school, the
Sheltons traveled in England and Scotland before
returning to Corby and
meeting up with a group of students and faculty from Freed-Hardeman for a
Saturday barbeque hosted by the King’s School and held on the grounds of
magnificent Peterborough Cathedral.
The next day the FHU group all worshipped with the congregation at Corby.
Rich Brown in Guyana
Dr. Rich Brown
participated in a mission trip to Georgetown,
Guyana in July. Brown and more than 70 others, most with
FHU connections, spent eight days in Guyana’s
largest city. The group’s activities
included operating a medical clinic, leading Bible studies, and constructing
a church building during the days and conducting VBS and Crusades (Gospel
Meetings) at night. Over 1,400
patients were seen at the medical clinic and 13 of the 15 baptisms that
occurred during the week resulted from Bible studies done at the clinic.
 Brown,
who spent one day conducting Bible studies and was involved in the construction
project the other days, says he was greatly impacted by the trip. “I was impressed by the people of Guyana. They were so warm and loving to us. I’m not sure who helped who in many
ways. I saw people who really wanted
to know God’s will and who were willing to work to gain that knowledge. I really became aware of how much we take
for granted and how materially blessed we are in America. Materially, I have more in common with Bill
Gates than I do with most of the people in Guyana. I’m not usually at a loss for words, but I am
in this case. On this trip I saw poor
people who are very rich, saw how God provides the skills and resources
needed to do what He has told us to do, and saw first hand that if we plant
the seed He will give the increase.
This was my first overseas mission trip, but it won’t be my last.”
Natalie
Oliver in Argentina
 For
three weeks in May 2004, Natalie Oliver, daughter of Dr. Mike
Oliver, worked with Glen and Kathy Henton and their
daughter Emily in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
While in Buenos Aires, Natalie
spent time in intensive language study, participated in both English and
Spanish Bible studies, and helped with the children of team members. She was
also able to help teach in a children’s class as well as observe the work of
a multi-family missions team in a large metropolitan city (population: 13
million). In 2003 Natalie participated in a medical mission trip to a village
outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Natalie is currently a student at FHU and hopes to return to Buenos
Aires in the Spring of 2005.
Ken Moran Joins
Faculty
Ken Moran, a 1984 FHU graduate, has returned to the School of
Business as
an Assistant Professor of Finance. Moran, who holds the M.B.A. from William
and Mary, has had a highly successful banking career in Williamsburg, Virginia. Ken
is a Certified Financial Planner and a Certified Business Manager. He is
married to the former Teresa Bond, also an ’84 graduate. The couple has two
children, Rachel and Joshua. Moran will teach quantitative methods and finance
courses.
Accreditation Reaffirmed
In June four FHU professors attended the annual conference
of the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs in Phoenix,
where the national accreditation of the School
of Business was
reaffirmed for ten years. Rich Brown, Jim
Edmonds, Ray Eldridge, and Mike Oliver
attended the four-day conference that focused on ways to apply the Good to
Great concepts of keynote speaker Jim Collins to higher education.
Eldridge Selected for
Board
Dr. Ray Eldridge has been selected to serve on
the 2004 Board of Examiners for the Tennessee Center
for Performance Excellence’s Award program (formerly called Tennessee
Quality Award). A public-private partnership, the Baldrige-based
program was established as an economic development tool to stimulate Tennessee
business and industry to improve quality, productivity, and achieve
world-class standards of excellence. In ten
years, over 900 organizations have utilized the services of the Tennessee
program, benefiting over 350,000 employees of these companies. The center
provides a system for firms to measure their progress and growth toward
excellence. Among Eldridge’s duties will be to serve
as a representative for The Center and participate in the award application
process to include individual reviews and site visits.
Senior Retreat Tradition Begins
Last April the first annual senior retreat was held at
Mid-South Youth Camp. The purpose of
the retreat is to gather the seniors along with the faculty in a relaxed
setting where issues of spiritual importance are discussed.
Eddie Miller, of Brentwood,
Tennessee, was the speaker at April’s
event. Miller is a 1970 alumnus of
Freed-Hardeman. He spent a decade as a
 general
contractor in addition to his many years serving as a minister. He is currently an adjunct professor of
business ethics at Lipscomb University. Miller spoke about the importance of
ethical behavior in all aspects of life and about how companies today are
seeking employees with strong character in light of recent scandals. He also stressed the importance of putting
God and family first and putting career and work in the proper perspective.
 It
was decided that future retreats will be held in the fall rather than the
spring. The retreat this fall will
feature F. LaGard Smith. Smith is a
well-known author and speaker. He has
published over twenty books, in addition to compiling and narrating The Daily Bible, a chronological
arrangement of the New International Version.
Smith divides his time between Nashville
and the Cotswolds of rural England
where he retreats for about six months each year to write. He is an attorney who taught for many years
in the Pepperdine University School of Law.
More recently he has served as Scholar-in-Residence for Christian
Studies at Lipscomb University.
Kathleen Richard
– In Her Own Words
Management
major Kathleen Richard has been spending the summer working as an intern in
Singapore. Below are some of her
descriptions of her experiences:
After arriving in
Singapore on Monday, without a schedule for the rest of the afternoon and
evening, Tuesday morning began early with a bus tour of much of
Singapore--specifically the "major" divisions of the city:
Chinatown, Little India, Arab Street (Malays), and the historic (British)
district. Part of the attractions included the Merlion, Singapore's mascot. Lunch that day was
Indian cuisine. Tuesday night we had a boat ride that allowed us to see
much of the city at that time. Clarke Quay has many waterside
restaurants, outdoor, and as a group we ate there as well…
Wednesday,
Finally!!!, we found out our work assignments. In the morning we toured
the Singapore stock exchange. After lunch and a
break, we got ready and returned to the outskirts of the financial district,
to the Temasek Group. ..
Temasek is one of
the premier companies in Singapore. It is an investment holding
company for many of the most affluent, goverment-affliated, yet private corps
in the country. It is associated with the Ministry of Finance, of Singapore, but it is a private company. In spite of
some "connections" which allowed us to get our feet in the door
with this particular company, Professor Thevaranjan tells us that much of the
future of the program relies on what we will do while we are here.
There is some skepticism by the Singaporeans about the capabilities of
undergraduate students. Locals are not allowed to work with companies
anywhere close to the caliber of the Temasek Group, we are told, if they are
undergraduates…
Anyway, my
assignment is in the Settlement Unit, of the Finance Department. I am
working on designing user acceptance tests for the process of switching from
a manual system of trade matching (and settlement) to an automated process
flow…
We work extensively
with Excel, organizing the data from trade tickets and broker confirmation
sheets, in order to upload to a software system to be delivered July
20. We have been meeting with the developers, along with our supervisor
as we prepare for the pending delivery…
The School of Business at Freed-Hardeman University
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