HIRES/PROMOTIONS
CURTIS WOODY
New job title: Director of Corporate Higher Education and Work Force Development
Company: Georgia Southern University
Duties: Woody will travel around the world to meet with organizations and corporations and offer academic and non-academic programs provided by Georgia Southern.
Related work experience: Woody has founded or owned six businesses and corporations and has worked in sales and marketing for Coca-Cola Enterprises, the Girl Scout Council of Savannah, City Beverage Co. and United Way.
Education: Woody earned his graduate and undergraduate degrees from Georgia Southern University.
AMANDA MCGUIRE
New job title: Internet Manager
Company: Fairway Lincoln Mazda
Duties: McGuire is the customer’s first point of contact with the dealership through the Internet and social media.
Related work experience: McGuire worked in Internet sales with Vaden Imports and Southern Motors Honda.
Education: McGuire graduated from Orange Park High School in Orange Park, Fla.
DONYA FOWLER
New job title: Audit Manager
Company: Deemer Dana & Froehle LLP
Duties: Fowler will manage and lead the ESG team, which specializes in providing audits for the post-secondary education industry.
LUELLA SANDERS
New job title: Director of Finance
Company: Union Mission
Duties: Sanders’ responsibilities include administering payroll, coordinating year-end audits and implementing updates to accounting programs.
Related work experience: Sanders worked at Heritage Park of Savannah as an accounting manager.
Education: Sanders received her bachelor’s degree with a concentration in accounting from Savannah State University and her master of business administration from Georgia Southern University.
CAITLIN SHANEY
New job title: Realtor
Company: Seabolt Brokers
Duties: Sales and marketing of residential property throughout the Savannah region.
Related work experience: Shaney performed administrative duties with Seabolt Brokers over the past year.
Education: Shaney holds a B.A. in international political economy from the University of Colorado.
ROBERT GREGERSON
New job title: Dean of the College of Science and Technology
Company: Armstrong Atlantic State University
Duties: Gregerson will provide oversight and vision for undergraduate students majoring in applied physics, biology, chemistry, computer science, information technology, mathematics and psychology. He will also provide leadership for students seeking pre-professional and graduate degrees.
Related work experience: Gregerson joined Armstrong as a professor and department head in 2007. He has served as interim dean of Armstrong’s College of Science and Technology since July 2011.
Education: Gregerson earned a bachelor’s degree in biology at Wabash College. He completed his doctorate in molecular genetics at the University of Georgia.
HONORS/AWARDS
Telfair Museums announces Board of Trustees members
Telfair Museums recently announced the new members of the Board of Trustees. The following members were appointed at the annual meeting:
• Bill Skinner, Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation. Skinner serves as treasurer and corporate controller for Gulfstream.
• Bob Faircloth, retired. He’s held several board positions, including BTR and joined National Grid plc as a director in 1995. National Grid operates the electric and gas utility grids in England and Wales and is one of the largest utilities in the United States, centered in the Northeast.
• Rosaleen Roxburg, moved to Savannah in September 2005 and taught English as a volunteer to Hispanic emigrants at St. Mary’s mission for two years. She serves on the board of the Live Oak Public Library.
Weller recognized as U.S. certified instructor
Nicole Weller of Savannah has earned the title of certified instructor, as announced by U.S. Kids Golf. Weller has been a junior golf instructor for 17 years and is the head teaching professional at The Landings Club on Skidaway Island, where she has been for seven years.
Attorney to address IT and computer law conferences
Attorney Diana J.P. McKenzie, the leader of HunterMaclean’s
Information Technology and Outsourcing Practice Group, will serve as a featured speaker at the University of Dayton School of Law’s Computer and Cyberspace Law Seminar in Dayton, Ohio, on June 8 and at the International Federation of Computer Law Associations (IFCLA) in Munich, Germany, on June 22.
World Trade Center Savannah board announced
The World Trade Center Savannah recently announced its inaugural board of directors. Former state Sen. Eric Johnson of Hussey, Gay, Bell & DeYoung, will chair the board while Scott Center of National Office Systems will serve as vice chair.
Students land internships
Grayson Gresham, a student at The University of Georgia and Ben Jarnagin, a student at The University of Tennessee will intern with Target this summer.
Gresham will be working as an intern in their Inbound and Outbound departments; Jarnagin will intern in the Target.com department.
McCorkle & Johnson partner completes course
David H. Johnson, a partner in the law firm of McCorkle & Johnson, LLP, has completed an arbitration training course conducted by Henning Mediation and Arbitration Service In Atlanta. Johnson’s practice has focused for nearly 30 years on representation of parties in litigation, arbitration and mediation of construction, real estate and general commercial disputes, and he will also now serve as a private arbitrator of such disputes.
Georgia Southern faculty member selected as
Silberman Fellow
Georgia Southern University faculty member Lisa A. Costello has been selected as one of 20 international teaching fellows to participate in the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies’ 2012 Curt C. and Else Silberman Seminar at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., this month. The seminar is designed for college and university faculty who are teaching or preparing to teach about the Holocaust or Holocaust-related courses.