School of Accountancy Awards Banquet

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The George W. Daverio School of Accountancy
School of Accountancy Awards Banquet

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On April 20, 2012, The George W. Daverio School of Accountancy Annual Awards Banquet was held to honor students, alumni and professionals.

Scholarship Recipients

Akron Tax Club Scholarship - Dare Heisterman

Allen S. Crum Accounting Scholarship – Dominick Pariano, Jack Jennemann, Katie Wojciechowski, Kaley Kringeta, Sarah Wright, Zachary Soehnlen, Geoffrey Zion

Apple Growth Partners Scholarship - Blake Norton

Becker CPA Review Scholarship – Angelette Bokman, Tom Hammond, Trang Nguyen, Iuliana Popa

Bober, Markey, Fedorovich & Company Scholarship – Andrew Norton

Bruner Cox Scholarship - Alexandra Bilas

CBIZ / Mayer Hoffman Mccann Scholarship – Adam Schmitt

Cohen & Co. Scholarship Award – Ibrahim Adama

Crowe Horwath, LLP Outstanding Junior Accounting Student Scholarship - Andrea Arney

Daniel Joseph Maimone Scholarship – Danielle Shaffer, Emily Shinko, Maria Roth

Deloitte & Touche Alumni Scholarship – Nick Angle, Eric Simon

Deloitte & Touche - John P. Brown Memorial Scholarship – Richard Kurtz

The Dennis Gordon Endowed Scholarship – Joshua Imbeau

Donald and Jeri Dixon Scholarship – Zachary Powers

Donald S. Hills Scholarship - Mackenzee Culp

Dr. and Mrs. Frederick E. Horn Endowed Scholarship in Accounting – Michael King, Natalie Micale, Sevanna Roberts

Dr. Henry Efebera Memorial Scholarship – Tesha Collins

Ernst & Young Endowed Accounting Leadership and Diversity Scholarship - Elysia Horstman

Ernst & Young Endowed Accounting Leadership Scholarship in Honor of Mr. Alvin H. Lieberman – Jacob Dittoe, Nicholas Johnson

Frank P. and Marie Bevilacqua Scholarship - Vanessa Conral, Dennis Torres

Frank Moran Memorial Scholarship –Nicholas DiDonato

Grant Thornton Scholarship – Josiah Shalala, Andrew Pace

The Henry “Hank” Nettling Endowed Scholarship in Accounting – Zachary Watts

Huber & Virginia Mollenkopf Scholarship – Amanda Gubanez, Benjamin Barr, Gregory Warnick, John Southam, Joel Kirkwood, Nathan Lieb, Matthew Fleck, Michelle George, Monica Higgins, Ryan Wasylik, Robert Emery, Rachel Roan

The J. M. Smucker Company Scholarship – Andrew Geiser, Nicole Keller

JAB Book Scholarship - Nick Harig

JAB Need-Based Scholarship – Christina Gentile

Jacob and Dora Gordon Scholarship – Allesandro Shamel, Allyson Foy, Bradley Trice

The James H. Kausch Memorial Scholarship in Accounting – Sean Stewart, Timothy Hagenbaugh

The James T. and Eva Miller – Gabrielle Dimengo, Corey Oliver

Jo-Ann Stores, Inc. Scholarship – Benjamin Seidner

Julia Mikis Stell Scholarship – Ryan Bucy

Kohn-Diehl Memorial Scholarship – Emily King, April Pauken

KPMG LLP Alumni Scholarship – Katherine Wallace

KPMG Alumni Scholarship/Graduate Assistant - Juliana Reifsnyder

McGraw-Hill Scholarship – Jordan Duncan

Meaden & Moore Ltd. Scholarship - Erik Kasminsky

PricewaterhouseCoopers Alumni Scholarship in Honor of David Manyuon – Daryl Hughes

Rea & Associates Scholarship – Travis Vance, Andrew Harpel

Robert & Janet Mcminn Scholarship – Steven Casey

RPM International Scholarship – Morgan Underwood

Sadhwani Scholarship - Renee Oneacre, Scott Caldwell

School of Accountancy Advisory Board Scholarship – Alexandra Bilas, Samuel Smith, Daniel Sanchez, Joshua Fick

School of Accountancy Advisory Board BS/MS Accounting Scholarship – Alexis Burch, Benjamin Seidner, Elizabeth Moyer, Joshua Fick, James Predmore, Jared May, Daniel Sanchez, Samual Smith, Taylor Smith

School of Accountancy Advisory Board CPA Review Scholarship – Yusef Ag, Dan Zhou, Aruna Thapaloiya, Sarah Byler, Shuai Xu, Jessica Foster

School of Accountancy Advisory Board Graduate Assistantship - David Minotas

School of Accountancy Professionalism & Leadership Scholarship - Jeffry Rennert

Skoda Minotti - Alexandra Rhodes

SS&G Scholarship – Scott Bailey

Virginia Mollenkopf Scholarship Fund - Tirzah Harper, Marcos Velazquez

Federation of Schools of Accountancy Award – Kristian Doty

Vincent P. Kopy Scholarship – Brandon Hickey

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The faculty and staff of the George W. Daverio School of Accountancy wish to thank BCG & Co., our primary sponsor, as well as the following table sponsors:

Apple Growth Partners
BCG & Company
Bober Markey Fedorovich & Co.
Ernst & Young
Cohen & Company, Ltd.
The J.M. Smucker Company
Plante & Moran
Vince Kopy Scholarship Team

Management Department Awards Banquet and Sigma Iota Epsilon initiation ceremony

Friday, March 30, 2012

Scholarship Recipients

Thomas J. Kelty Memorial Apics Scholarship

Courtney Ou

Management Department Faculty Scholarship

James Morrison and Jessica Wallace

Management Department Advisory Board Scholarship

Katherine Chmura

The David M. Grubb Endowed Scholarship

Kenneth Montgomery

CITe Advisory Board Scholarship

Grant Dornon and Arthur Lewis

Dorothy A. Mizer Endowed Scholarship

Rinoldo Allen and Michelle DiGeroloma

The George E. Price Memorial Scholarship National Association of Purchasing Managers

Christopher Kurtz, Courtney Ou, and Matthew Ryan

CITe Study Abroad Scholarship

Lena Saliba and Zach Schroeder

Outstanding Information Systems Management Graduate for Academic year 2011-2012

Daniel Morton

Outstanding Supply Chain and Operations Management Graduate for Academic year 2011-2012

Craig Hartman

Outstanding Human Resource Management Graduate for Academic year 2011-2012

Daniel Wintrow

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2012 Outstanding Accounting Alumnus

Thomas Freeman, CPA was chosen as the 2012 Outstanding Alumnus. Tom graduated from The University of Akron with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting in 1982, and a Masters of Taxation in 1991. During his undergrad, Tom was a student athlete on the Zips football team. Currently, with over 29 years in public accounting, Tom is a Partner of Tax and Transaction Advisory Services at Grant Thronton. He also is an adjunct professor for the MTax program, teaching S. Corp Taxation in the summer.

Previous Honorees

2012 Outstanding Accounting Professional

J. Michael Kolk, CPA was chosen as the 2012 Outstanding Professional. Mike co-founded the Akron office of Cohen & Company when he was 29, and currently serves as the firms Partner-in-Charge of the Private Client Services Group. After receiving his Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Case Western Reserve University, Mike earned his Masters of Taxation from the University of Cincinnati and his Law Degree from Cleveland State University.