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CONTENTS
Dean's
Welcome
Astros
Owner Opens the Fall Season of Dean's Lectures
MBA
Students Lead MBA Jungle Portfolio Management Contest
Jones
Partners Golf Tournament
El
Paso Energy Donates $2.5 Million to the Jones School
Enron
and Lay Family Give $8 Million
Enthusiastic
Students Organize Student Clubs
Jones
School Welcomes Murray Weidenbaum as Visiting Scholar
Maya
Houston (MBA '99) Is New Director of Development
GWIB
Means Business: Rice Graduate Women in Business Off to a Strong
Start
Action
Learning Program
ExxonMobil
Donation to Benefit Academic Programs
Keep
Your Eye on the Rice Alliance
First
Annual MBA Marketing Case Competition Puts Jones School on the Map
David
Ikenberry: A Testament to Teaching Excellence
Jim
Turley, Chairman-Elect of Ernst&Young -- His Community Has Become
the Entire Globe
Diary
of an MBA: A First-Year Student Writes Journal for Business Week
Jones
School Receives Brillante Award
Faculty
News
Alumni
Association President's Letter
Class
Notes
Annual
Alumni Career Forum
Please send
comments to:
Deanna Sheaffer, Editor
Director of Alumni Affairs
Jones School of Management - MS 531 Rice University
P.O. Box 1892
Houston TX 77251-1892
e-mail:JGSalum@rice.edu
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Jones Partners
Golf Tournament
– By Denton Dance, '01
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Frankfort ('01) and Denton Dance ('02), organizer of the tournament. |
October’s Full Moon, Friday the 13th, was the day ofthe fifth Annual
Jones Partners Golf Tournament. The round of golf itself lasted
well over six hours but there were no complaints. The weather was
simply beautiful. The festivities kicked off at 10:30. Steve Barrett
from FMC was our only qualifier for the $10,000 dollar putting contest
and just lipped out the final putt. Cres Martinez was the pro on
the range and we managed to keep him very busy giving out last minute
advice just before people teed off, and as always, participants
enjoyed a great barbecue lunch. Out on the course, play was slow
but as one recruiter put it, “It was like we were going from one
cocktail party to the next with a few holes of golf in-between.”
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Rumor has it that several people were incredibly close to winning
the cars and the trips, but close only counts in hand grenades,
dancing, and karma sutra.The team to beat was the Compaq team; from
the get go everyone else was only playing for second, especially
since Tiger wasn’t in the field. The Compaq team was on fire, shooting
a gross 60, just missing the perfect 13 under by millimeters. The
top three teams actually were tied for the low net with scores of
53 and the reverse, highly suspicious, playoff method was used to
determine first, second, and third.
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Second place was the Entergy team with beloved alums Hans Hubbard
(MBA ’00) and Mike Current (MBA ’00) leading the way and third place
went to the Shell team lead by Todd Wodraska (‘02), the aspiring
young first year. Todd was our only multiple winner as he also claimed
the Near Pin honors. The long drive award went to first-time participant
Bill Griffin from BMC. The other team of note was the Continental
Team who came in “dead last” but probably had the most fun doing
so.
Post-dinner festivities started with the Million Dollar Hole in
One which was truly a shot in the dark, followed by the annual auction.
It just isn’t a tournament until Dr. Ed Williams gets to the mike
and discloses his side job as an auctioneer. The major prizes this
year included a week stay in Crested Butte: Charlie Bates (MBA ’96)–compliments
of Peter Veruki; a trip to the U.S. Open: Charlotte Holmes, (’01);
two Tickets to Paradise: David Karohl (’01); and a box of Premium
Cuban Cigars: Lester Huang (’01). The evening lasted well past 9:00
p.m. with too many side events to list here. For full results and
pictures, go to: www.golfawol.com/oct.htm.
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