Jim Chasteen (BBA ’98) still recalls his first lesson as a risk management student in the Terry College of Business. “The first thing they teach you on day one is to avoid dogs, trampolines, and booze,” says Chasteen.
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It was September 2019 when Dan Amos participated in a Business Roundtable meeting — a quarterly gathering of CEOs from major U.S. companies — to share ideas about the evolution of business.
Before he could say a word, Greg Davis Jr. was in radio. “My father started the company a month and a day after I was born,” he says of Davis Broadcasting Inc., where he now serves in an executive role as vice president and Atlanta market manager. “I was born into radio,” he adds with a chuckle.
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.
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.
This fall proved a memorable season in what was already an extraordinary life for Dr. David Quintero.
Passings of Terry College of Business alumni from April 1, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
It may be counterintuitive, but it can be harder for art museums to secure 20-year-old artworks than 200-year-old works.
The 2021 honorees of the University of Georgia’s 40 Under 40 include seven graduates who earned a degree from the Terry College of Business.
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.