Adam C. Johnson

An Officer and a Businessman

On Sept. 11, 2001, Adam C. Johnson was in his sophomore classroom at T.F. Riggs High School in Pierre, S.D., watching the television as the terrorist attacks played out halfway across the country. That moment sealed Johnson’s commitment to serve.

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A Storey from the Greatest Generation

After dark on the day he turned 22 years of age, Harold Storey (BBA ’42) bedded down with a few buddies in the basement of a French house near the Moselle River.

David Quintero and family

Bridge Work

This fall proved a memorable season in what was already an extraordinary life for Dr. David Quintero.

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Passings, Fall/Winter 2021

Passings of Terry College of Business alumni from April 1, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021

John Rooker stands arms crossed in front of a row of red movie theater seats

The sequel – John Rooker (BBA ’02)

The Terry College of Business students know the famous name. In the 1960s, John W. “Jack” Rooker (BBA ’60) entered working life with his father — Terry alum William A. Rooker Sr. (BSC ’33) — at Southern Bonded Warehouse, a third-party logistics company that stored and shipped inventory for businesses in fast-growing Atlanta. In a few years, Jack evolved the family interests, launching an industrial real estate development company.

Charles Watson is CEO of Tropical Smoothie Café.

Smoothie Operator

It is a sunny day, and on the sidewalk outside of his beloved smoothie joint in Dunwoody, Tropical Smoothie Café CEO Charles Watson leans back in his chair and brings his right leg up to rest on his left knee and … what’s that? Glue.

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Spring 2021 Passings

Passings for Terry College of Business for Spring/Summer 2021