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STATE’S STARS
Charles Albright, ’68, and Ralph
Wallace, ’75, MBA ’80, were both
elected as International
Director, Toastmaster
International
2005-2007. Albright
is currently a project
engineer with Mesa
Albright
Associates, Inc.,
Chattanooga, TN.
Wallace is director of
information systems
for the Presbyterian
Healthcare Services,
Alburquerque, NM.
This is the first time
two MSU graduates
Wallace
have served on this board at the same
time. Toastmasters is a worldwide,
nonprofit organization with over
210,000 members in approximately
100 countries, where members practice
speeches of all types and develop
leadership skills.
Kwasi Adarkwa, Ph. D. ’82, has
been named vice-chancellor of the
Kwame Nkrumah
University of Science
and Technology
(KNUST) in Kumasi,
Ghana. He joined
the KNUST faculty
in 1983 and rose to
full professor in 2001. He has held
many appointments and chaired
many committees, including the
University Printing Press Management
Committee. He has published
more than 75 publications. He
serves as president of the Asante Presbytery
Men’s Fellowship. In 2006, he
was named Outstanding Alumni by
MSU’s College of Social Science.
Katie Woodruff, ’96, M.A. ’97,
has been named senior counsel of
Seyferth Spaulding
Tennyson Inc., Grand
Rapids. Since joining
SST in 2002,
Woodruff has worked
in strategic planning,
brand identity development
and image management, rising
to account supervisor. SST is one
of the midwest’s largest privately held
public relations firms with offices in
Grand Rapids and Detroit.
Kathryn Davis, ’78, assistant vice
president at Fifth Third Bank, Southfield,
has been named associate/vice
president of Plante
& Moran Corporate
Finance, Southfield.
She is a member of
Inforum and The
Society of Human
Resource Management.
She is a member of the Ralph
Young Fund’s Spartan Club.
Velvie Green, Ph. D. ’03, provost and
executive vice president for academic
and student affairs
at Grand Rapids
Community College,
has been named
president of Glendale
Community College,
AZ. Green served
24 years at GRCC in a number of
positions, including business division
chair and assistant dean. She also
taught five years in the Grand Rapids
Public Schools. She has served on
the boards of Goodwill Industries
and the World Affairs Council.
Rhoda Weiss, ’71, a PR and health
care executive based in Santa Monica,
CA, has been named
chair and CEO of
the Public Relations
Society of America,
the world’s largest
organization of communications
professionals
with 31,000 members. Weiss
has served PRSA the last five years in
leadership roles and has won many
honors, including the Health Academy
National Lifetime Achievement
Award. A former Kellogg Foundation
Fellow, she has taught PR at UCLA
Extension for two decades. She is the
founding president of the American
Hospital Association Society for
Healthcare Strategy and Market Development.
She is a Life Member of
the MSU Alumni Association.
Budi Rochadi, M.A. ’84, has been
named Deputy Governor of the Bank
of Indonesia by President
Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono of Indonesia.
The post is one of
the nation’s key financial
posts.
Edward Liebler, ’62, DVM ’64,
owner of a veterinary practice at Capital
City Airport, Lansing, has been
elected as President Elect for 2006-
2007 of the American
Veterinary Medical
Law Association, and
as President of the
association for 2007-
2008. Liebler was a
founding member of
the association and served as its executive
director for six years. He is currently
a member of the MSU Alumni
Association’s national alumni board.
He is a Life Member of the MSU
Alumni Association and is a member
of MSU’s Frank S. Kedzie Society.
Stephen J. Knoop, ’87, vice president
of corporate development for RPM
International, Inc., Medina, OH, has
been named senior
vice president for
corporate development.
Prior to joining
RPM, he was an
associate attorney
specializing in corporate
and securities law for Calfee,
Halter & Griswold. Knopp serves on
the executive committee of Rainbow
Babies & Children’s Hospital’s National
Leadership Council.
Jeffrey S. Johnson, ’76, boating law
administrator for Alaska since 1998,
has been named president
of the National
Association of State
Boating Law Administrators.
Johnson
joined the U.S. Forest
Service in Alaska in
1976 and in 1981 became a park
ranger with the Alaska Division of
Parks and Outdoor Recreation. In
1991 he managed restoration projects
in the aftermath of the Exxon Valdez
oil spill. He has received numerous
awards and commendations for his
public service.
Thomas G. Evans, MBA ’66, Ph.D.
’69, professor emeritus of the University
of Central Florida,
has been awarded
the John L. Lawler
Award for best article
published in the Journal
of Accountancy.
In Feb. 2005, he coauthored
an article on “Hedge Fund
Investing,” which explains the history,
uses and regulation of these popular
investment vehicles. Evans is the
author of a textbook on accounting
theory and co-author of a textbook
on international accounting.
William Sheridan, ’72, a 31-year
veteran of the auction industry and
owner of Sheridan
Realty & Auction
Co., Mason, has been
named president of
the National Auctioneers
Association, the
largest professional
organization for auctioneers with
more than 6,000 members. Sheridan
boasts professional designations CAI,
AARE, CPPA and CES. Last fall he
appeared on NBC’s Today Show in a
segment about auctioneering.
Michael Gay, ’00, manager of the web
operation of WBBM-TV, a CBSowned
station in Chicago,
has been named
executive producer of
digital media content
for Hearst-Argyle
Television, Inc., New
York. Under Gay,
WBBM’s website grew from 60,000
to 3.5 million page views per month
and was named the Edward J. Murrow
Best Website in the Online News
Association’s competition. Prior to
WBBM, he worked on the website for
San Francisco’s KRON-TV.
Joel N. Stark, ’67, a small business
consultant from Warwick, RI, has
been named treasurer
of the Board of Trustess
of The Providence
Center, a behavioral
health organization
that serves 9,800
patients a year. Stark
retired in 2001 as senior vice president
of marketing and development of the
Providence Journal Company. He
currently also serves as chair of the
Finance/Administrative Committee of
the center.
Debra E. Spencer, ’91, and Anne
M. Feighan, ’95, have been named
senior vice presidents
at Campbell-Ewald,
Detroit. Spencer has
been named management
supervisor and
will work with the
Spencer
U.S. Postal Service
account. Prior to
joining Campbell-Ewald in 1999,
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