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2008 Alumni Award Winners

2008 Alumni Award recipients (from left to right) Hill A. Feinberg, Mary Virginia Terry, R. Michael Barry Jr., and Frank W. Brumley at the Westin in Atlanta on May 3, 2008.

The 2008 Distinguished Alumni Award winners are difference-makers in the truest sense. The Terry College is proud to be associated with them, and it was evident from what Hill Feinberg, Mary Virginia Terry, Frank Brumley, and Michael Barry said in accepting their awards that they have great love for the Terry College.

Distinguished Alumni Award winner Hill Feinberg (BBA 1969) has the perspective of someone who grew up in Columbus, Ga., but now lives in Dallas, Texas, where he is chairman and CEO of First Southwest Co. Recently, Feinberg established a faculty support fund that will make it possible for Terry finance professors to attend national and international conferences. The Feinberg Family Support Fund will also expose Terry students to financial markets through speakers and site visits.

Working with Terry faculty and staff to set up the fund, Feinberg was reminded what a "diamond in the rough" the Terry College is.

"And we really need to leverage that," said Feinberg in accepting his award. "It's not about being the biggest...it's about being the best."

One of the people most responsible for the rising national stature of the Terry College is Mrs. Terry, who, along with her late husband, C. Herman Terry, made a landmark $6 million gift that funded five faculty chairs, established merit scholarships, and provided fellowships for faculty research. In October 1991, the college was named in honor of the Terrys, whose financial support had a transforming effect on the Terry College that is still felt today.

"Do you have about half an hour...I have a long speech," said Mrs. Terry in accepting the Dean's Distinguished Service Award. She was kidding, of course. "Thank you from the bottom of my heart," is all she said before blowing a kiss to the audience.

Brumley (BBA 1962) has built a legendary career as the CEO and partner of several major coastal developments, including Amelia Island Plantation, near Jacksonville, Forida, as well as Wild Dunes and Kiawah Island, near Charleston, South Carolina. He is currently chairman/CEO of the Daniel Island Co., 4,000-acre island town with 20 miles of waterfront near Charleston.

Brumley credits part of his success to the business education he received at Terry — and also to his mentor and fellow Terry alumnus, the late Charles Fraser (BBA 1950), who pioneered coastal development in the southeast by creating the Sea Pines development at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Brumley, who will be the subject of a cover story in the fall '08 issue of Terry Magazine, introduced numerous family members from the podium as he accepted his Distinguished Alumni Award.

In accepting his Outstanding Young Alumni Award, Atlanta attorney J. Michael Barry Jr. (BBA 1993, JD 1996, EMBA 2005) paid tribute to Terry's Executive MBA program for "producing and delivering an outstanding intellectual challenge and opportunity, a terrific leadership development program, and an overall experience that is second to none."

"It's a great time to be a Terry alum," said Barry, referring to the capital campaign that's about to begin for a proposed Terry complex near the corner of Baxter and Lumpkin streets. "I'm excited, as I know all of you are, to see where the college goes in the coming years — not only for our current students, but for our alumni, our programs, and our state."

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