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Coast Business Students Recognized at Annual Awards Luncheon

Date 5-11-06

Contact Jana Bryant 601.266.4497


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Gulfport—Eleven Gulf Coast area students were honored at the annual Excellence in Business awards lunch hosted by the University of Southern Mississippi’s College of Business on the Gulf Coast.

Sponsored by the Chevron Texaco Pascagoula Refinery, the event was held April 29 at Mary Mahoney’s Restaurant in Biloxi.

The award recipients are listed below:

  • Cherie Purl, a senior management information systems major from Pass Christian, received the Northrup Grumman Ship Systems scholarship in Management Information Systems.
  • Erica Hoban, a junior management major from Gulfport, received the Excellence in Business award.
  • Tobias Maldonado Jr., a senior business administration major from Pass Christian, received the Chevron Texas Excellence in Management award.
  • William Martin Hickman, a senior accounting major from Gulfport, received the Alexander van Loon, Sloan, Levens and Favre Excellence in Business Award.
  • Lee Wilkerson, a graduate student from Biloxi, received the Wachovia Bank MBA Excellence Award.
  • Paula Chastain, a senior business administration major from Long Beach, received The Sun Herald Excellence in Business award.
  • Thomas Ayodele, a senior tourism management major from Saucier, received the Rex Distributing Excellence in Business Award.
  • Donna Cook, a senior management information systems major, received the Chevron Texaco Excellence in MIS award.
  • Kimberly Davis, a senior business administration major from Long Beach, received the Chevron Texaco Excellence in Business Administration award.
  • Justin Valdeon, a senior accounting major from D’Iberville, received the Mississippi Gulf Coast Society of CPA’s award for Outstanding Academic Achievement in Accounting.
  • Rex Dean, an accounting graduate from Long Beach, received the Piltz, Williams, LaRosa and Company Excellence in Business award.

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Eleven students were recognized for their academic achievements recently by the University of Southern Mississippi College of Business on the Gulf Coast. They are, from left, Donna Cook, Tobias Maldonado, Cherie Purl, Thomas Ayodele, Erica Hoban, William Hickman, Kimberly Davis, Rex Dean, Paula Chastain, Lee Wilkerson, and Justin Valdeon. (Submitted Photo)

May 11, 2006 2:03 PM

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