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Outstanding Recent Graduates

The Outstanding Recent Graduate award recognizes an outstanding recent graduate from each of the undergraduate colleges and schools at Emporia State University. Selection for this award is based on criteria determined by each school/college and the stipulation that the recipient be no more than 10 years past graduation at Emporia State University.

Each year, recipients of this award are honored at the Dwight and Ida Curry Newberg Outstanding Senior Award Banquet and Outstanding Recent Graduate Banquet. The 2007 banquet is on Monday, April 23. Recipients receive accolades from each school/college and are asked to present guest lectures to their respective programs.

This award is sponsored by the ESU Alumni Association and is facilitated by the ESU Ambassadors organization.

 

The 2007
Outstanding Recent Graduates

Rob Curley (BIS 2001), was named vice president of product development for  Washingtonpost.Newsweek.Interactive (WPNI) in Alexandria, Va., in October 2006. Working across all WPNI properties, Curley and his team guide WPNI’s industry-leading innovation in online news and technology.  A recognized interactive pioneer, Curley brings a unique perspective and ground-breaking development expertise to WPNI’s online content, tools and strategies that facilitate the direct participation of washingtonpost.com readers.  Over the last several years, Curley’s first-of-its-kind work has been documented in media that range from college journalism textbooks to industry and mainstream magazines and white papers.  Curley also has been featured on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and in the New York Times.  In December 2006, he was named by the National Newspaper Association’s PRESSTIME magazine as one of the top “20 under 40”, a feature designed to recognize those who have proved themselves as “change agents within their companies and the industry, providing much needed leadership and vision.”  Curley has returned to campus on several occasions to make presentations, the most recent being April 6 of this year.

 

 

Jeff Johnson (BSB 1997, MBA 1999), Kansas City, Mo., has risen rapidly through the ranks of one of the most distinguished public accounting firms in the world – Deloitte and Touche – to be on the threshold of being named senior tax manager.  Johnson has continued to develop his technical competence while accepting greater responsibility for practice management.  He has responsibilities for coordinating/staffing operations with colleagues in India and has assessment responsibility for income tax accounting internal control of SEC reporting clients as required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.  His responsibilities include providing tax services primarily to corporate and high net worth clients while providing tax planning and strategy for clients, companies, and potential clients.  Johnson’s clients include some of the best known and most significant entities and individuals in Kansas.  Johnson is a certified public accountant and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Missouri Society of Certified Public Accountants.  He is a member of the Emporia State Accounting and Information Systems Associated Advisory Council.  Johnson is actively involved with ESU’s Career Services in supporting their activities.

 

 

Michelle Moore (BSE 1996, MS 2003), Oxford, Kan., has been an instructional technology specialist and math teacher at the Winfield, Kan. public school district for the past five years and has played a major role in organizing Moodle conferences. (Moodle is an open-source learning management system similar to Blackboard.)  In 2003, she completed her master’s degree from ESU in instructional design and technology.  Michelle has a very high profile at Moodle.org and has recently joined the consulting staff of US Moodle Partner, remote-Learner.net as director of training.  Her clients include private and public schools and colleges throughout the United States.  She was recently selected as one of the Best of the Best workshop presenters at the 2006 National Educational Computing Conference (NECC), and has been featured on numerous webcasts. 

 

Outstanding Recent Graduate
Award Recipients

1996
Debora Huth
Craig Kuckelman
Joan Carley Brewer
1997
Brad Minear
Lisa Wagner
Daniel Wann
1998
Kim Pember
Everett Spellman
Donna Stuber
1999
Sarah Cook
Kristi DeMint
DawnElla M. Rust
2000
Mario Bonilla
Shawn M. Brewer
Jeremy Kohomban
2001 Brian E. Cathers
Kenneth L. Harmon
Jeffrey P. McAdoo
2002 Jarod W. Allerheiligen
Megan McGaffin Dillingham
Lisa (Pendergast) Gates
2003 John A. Blaufuss, Jr.
Benjamin Patrick Butler
Marcie (Hamilton) Frederickson
2004 Darin P. Selby
Stacy E. (Cox) Shipley
Cynthia Price
2005

Kenneth D. Hamby

Brian K. Obermeyer

Faith (Peterson) Scott

2006

Bob Fitzpatrick

Maj. Joey Hamilton

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Last Updated May 1, 2007