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Alumni News1950sEli Broad (BA Accounting ’54)recently donated $10.5 million toGreen Dot Public Schools, a charterschool district in Los Angeles. Hisgift is expected to triple Green Dot’sdelivery of educational programsand services in the area.1960sJerry DeBoer (BA Marketing’65) has been named secretaryand controller of ConsumersConcrete Corp., producers ofready-mix concrete, concreteblock, architectural concrete blockand other concrete products. Healso serves as a member of theMichigan Concrete AssociationBoard of Directors.Thomas G. Evans (PhD Accounting’69), professor emeritus of theUniversity of Central Florida, hasbeen awarded the John L. LawlerAward for best article published inthe Journal of Accountancy.D a v i d L i c k ( B A A c c o u n t i n g’67) joined the law firm Foster,Swift, Collins & Smith, P.C., as ashareholder. He was previouslythe president of Loomis EwertParsley Davis & Gotting. He servesas an adjunct faculty member inthe College of Natural Sciencesat MSU.John C. Smythe (BA GeneralBusiness Administration ’69) hasbeen named president of CapitolNational Bancorp’s Great LakesRegion, which includes 17 banksin Michigan, Ohio and Indiana.Harold Steinberg (BA FinancialAdministration ’68) has beennamed U.S. senior vice presidentof B’nai B’rith International (BBI),the oldest worldwide Jewishservice organization, founded andheadquartered in New York City. BBIis organized in the United States,Canada, Europe, United Kingdomand Australia.Allen J. Wall (BA Marketing ’67), apartner at Sommers Schwartz, P.C.,in Southfield, Mich., has become anassociate at Collins, Einhorn, Farrell& Ulanoff, P.C.1970sJohn Costello (MBA MarketingManagement ’70) has been namedchief executive officer of Zounds,Inc., of Mesa, Ariz. Costello hasmore than 25 years of generalmanagement, consumer products,retailing and technology leadershipexperience, helping companiesmanage through high changeenvironments from start-ups to $80billion companies.Gary Langenwalter (MBA SupplyChain Management ’69), foundingpartner of ConfluencePoint, asustainability consulting firm, haswritten his fifth book, The Squeeze.Writing about sustainability, hedescribes the journey of a smallmanufacturer from traditionaldecision making to a sustainabilitymodel.Dan Mathews (BA Hotel &Restaurant Management ’66),formerly senior vice presidentand chief operating officer for theNational Automatic MerchandisingAssociation (NAMA) has beenpromoted to executive vicepresident and chief operatingofficer.Mathews is a member of TheFoundation of NAMA Board ofDirectors. He served six years onthe Eli Broad College of BusinessAlumni Association Board ofDirectors and is chairpersonemeritus of The School ofHospitality Business AlumniAssociation Executive Boardof Directors. He was inductedinto The School of HospitalityBusiness “Wall of Fame” in 2001and received the Broad School’sOutstanding Alumni Award in2007.Tim J. Key (MBA MarketingManagement ’74), vice president ofMarket Research and Planning forNationwide Financial in Columbus,Ohio, served as a volunteer judge inthe 2007 Big Ten Case Competitionheld at The Ohio State University. TheBig Ten Case Competition challengesone MBA student team from eachschool in the Big Ten AthleticConference to analyze a complexbusiness case and present theteam’s recommendations to a panelof industry and academic experts.Gary Malburg (BA Accounting ’78),treasurer, Steelcase, Inc., was aBroad School Finance Lecture Seriesspeaker in 2007. He presented thetopic, “Investing in Global Markets— the Importance of FinancialLeadership.”J a m e s B o s s c h e r ( B AFinancial Administration’71), treasurer, Trinity HealthCare, was elected to the BroadSchool’s Alumni AssociationBoard of Directors for a threeyearterm beginning in 2008.Craig Menear (BA PersonnelAdministration ’79) has beenpromoted to executive vice presidentof Merchandising at Home Depot.He previously served as senior vicepresident of Merchandising.Steven D. White (BA BusinessAdministration ’74) was recentlyappointed president and chiefexecutive officer and member ofthe board of directors of SV Solar,after serving as an advisor throughthe early stages of the company andthe Series A funding round. He hasmore than 20 years of successfulentrepreneurial experience and hasfounded two software companies:Logic Modeling Systems and 0-InDesign Automation.18BROADBUSINESSwww.bus.msu.edu