1993 Volume 116 No 1–4 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

Alumni Notes
companies due to the
leadership of the
company's chairman Henry
Holman, Georgia Tech '52.
The company has been
climbing steadily for two
years and now has more
than $1 billion in annual
revenues.
• Ronald H. Barnhart, Iowa
State '61, was elected
chairman of the Electronic
Industries Association. He
is vice president of
Honeywell Inc.
• Michael C. Waters, Lamar
'61, president of Hendrick
Medical Center in Abilene,
Texas, has been named
Abilene's Citizen of the
Year for 1992.
• James Rohr, Miami (OH)
'68, received the Executive
Order of the Ohio Commodore,
the highest honor
given by the State of Ohio.
The award was presented
by Governor Voinovich
and is given to an indi-
M. Waters Col. Hoff
Scovell receives the
Distinguished Alumnus
Award from Bill Dean.
vidual for contributions to
economic development in
Ohio.
• Michael Harrington, Miami
(OH) 'S2, was recently
elected first vice president
of Kemper Financial
Services in Chicago. He
will head the Money
Markets Group which is
responsible for $8.5 billion
in assets.
• William Mounger, Mississippi
'38, was named senior
consultant to Morgan
Keegan & Co. a life
insurance firm in Jackson,
Mississippi.
• Marion Smith, Mississippi
'54, was elected to the
advisory board of the
Guaranty National Bank-
Natchez. He is a partner in
the Jackson-based law firm
of Adams, Forman, Truly &
Smith.
• American Bankers
Association president,
William H. Brandon Jr.,
Mississippi '54, was asked
by President-elect Clinton
to participate in the
economic summit which
was held in December,
1992, and
broadcast
by CNN.
Brandon
suggested
that
M. Haynes
reducing
bureaucracy
in banking regulations
would help eliminate the
credit crunch and free up
billions of dollars in smaU
business credit to help
stimulate the economy.
• Chris Henick III, Mississippi
'78, is the executive
director of the Republican
Governors Association, a
political campaign branch
of the Republican governors.
He will be working
on two campaigns in 1993:
Virginia and New Jersey.
• Alan S. Okun, Ohio '74,
received Worcester
Polytechnic Institute's
Outstanding Adviser to a
Student Group Award for
his role as chapter adviser
to the Zeta Psi chapter. He
has been honored by Zeta
Psi International Headquarters
as well and will be
a featured speaker at its
regional conference at
Dartmouth.
• Fred Messersmith, Ohio
Wesleyan '48, recently
finished a portrait of
former President Jimmy
Carter for Stetson University
in DeLand, Florida,
where he is an artist-inresidence.
The portrait
commemorated the
president's visit to the
campus. The former head
of the art department,
Messersmith is an awardwinning
artist who has
held one-man shows in
New York, Florence, and
London.
• Robert Holloway, Purdue
'48, received the Purdue
Alumni Association's 1992
Distinguished Alumni
Award.
• William Cheatham Weaver
III, South '64, recently
endowed a chaired
professorship at Vanderbilt
University to advance the
study and treatment of
multiple sclerosis at
Vanderbilt University
Medical Center. Weaver
was diagnosed with the
debilitating neurological
disease 16 years ago.
• J. E. Day Jr., Oklahoma '71,
was promoted to executive
vice president of retail
banking and marketing for
F & M Bank & Trust Co. in
Tulsa, Oklahoma.
• Michael Haynes, Southern
Methodist '73, accepted a
position as president of
Guardian Technologies
International, a company
founded by former Marine
colonel, Oliver North, that
manufactures body armor
for law enforcement and
military personnel.
• John F. Scovell, Texas Tech
'68, received Texas Tech
University's Distinguished
Alumnus Award. He
serves as chairman and
director of Woodbine
Development Corp., a
subsidiary of Hunt Oil Co.
of Dallas.
• Richard Miller, Vanderbilt
'53, chairman and CEO of
the Nashville-based
insurance brokerage Willis
Corroon Corp., wUl be part
of the Owen Lecture Series,
speaking about the
insurance industry at the
Owen Graduate School of
Management.
• Harry J. Dutton, Washington
'32, was inducted into
the University of
Washington's Athletic Hall
of Fame in 1992. He is the
only surviving member of
the 1923 National Championship
Crew Team.
• Jack Biggs, Washington
(St. Louis) '66, received
Washington University's
Distinguished Alumni
Award for 1992.
• Elliot N. Mintzer, West
Chester '89, was promoted
by Celotex Corporation's
Northeast Residential
Roofing Division to sales
representative for the
Maryland /District of
Columbia /Virginia market.
• Richmond J. Brownson,
Westminster '60, received
his Juris Doctorate from the
University of Tulsa College
of Law in December, 1992.
• Nicholas Andruchow,
Widener '92, is working for
the Peace Corps in the
Dominican Republic,
assisting small businesses
by teaching accounting and
marketing skills to the
employees.
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