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Class Notes
2004
NELSON A. BURKE (B.B.A. ‘04)
Burke, of Atlanta, performed with the William Baker Festival Singers in a concert at Spivey Hall earlier this year. He and the rest of the Singers presented The Passion According to St. John by J. S. Bach. Burke is the owner of a business in Hapeville called The Engineer Guy (www.theengineerguy.com).
THOMAS L. MARSHALL
(B.I.T. Database Management ‘04)
Marshall, of Jonesboro, Ga., received the Out- standing Alumnus Award for the College of Information and Mathe- matical Sciences at the Alumni Association’s 2010 Annual Dinner. He is currently the director
of Administrative Systems for the Of- fice of Information and Technology Services at Clayton State. He is the proud father of a young son and daughter. His wife, Mila, is enrolled in the Master of Science in Nursing program at Clayton State.
ANDREW D. PIPPIN
(B.A. Media & Communications Studies ‘04)
Pippin, of Hampton, Ga., was re- cently appointed city manager of Hampton. Pippin started the position in January after previously working at the Hampton branch of the First National Bank of Griffin.
2005
SANDRA HILL
(B.A. Media & Communications Studies ‘05)
Hill, of Riverdale, Ga., is a security analyst with IBM.
last spring from an MBA program with a concentration in logistics from Troy University.
BERNADETTE S. LONCKE
(B.S. Health Care Management ‘06)
Loncke, of Hampton, Ga., is a nurse with Lafayette Nursing and Rehabil- itation Center. She is pursuing her doctorate at Walden University in their Public Health program special- izing in Community Health. Her son, Kevin, graduated from Clayton State in 2008 and is pursuing a master’s degree in Criminal Justice, while her other son is a new enlist in the U.S. Marines.
ELIZABETH (WELLINGTON) & THOMAS ZAHAROPOULOS
Liz and Tom were married in an inti- mate ceremony in Golden, Colo., earlier this year. They now call Bet- tendorf, Iowa home, as the couple relocated due to Liz’s job at Rock Is- land Arsenal in Rock Island, Ill. Liz holds three degrees from Clayton State (M.B.A. ‘09, B.B.A. ‘06 and A.A. ‘00), while Tom also graduated from Clayton State with a B.B.A. in 2006.
2007
MICHAEL G. BOWERS (B.B.A. Management ‘07)
Bowers, of Oxford, Ga., is the gen- eral manager for Bowers Fabrication Service, Inc., one of the largest man- ufacturers of paving components in the Southern U.S. As a writer and speaker, he is deeply involved with family, church and community life. He is the founder of The Character- Quest Project, a movement dedi- cated to teaching and upholding the values of honesty, integrity and dis- cipline in our communities, our or- ganizations and in ourselves.
AKSHAYA GUPTA
(B.S. Integrative Studies ‘07)
Gupta, of Morrow, Ga., has launched two more websites, Jujubradio.com
2006
SARAH (ERNEST) JUAREZ & MANNY JUAREZ
Sarah and Manny Juarez announce the birth of their first child, Carmen. She was born on Dec. 11, 2009 at Fayette Piedmont Hos- pital. She weighed eight lbs., 10.5 oz. and was 20.5 inches long. Sarah (B.B.A. ‘02), who played basketball at Clayton State, teaches in Clayton County Schools, while Manny (B.I.T. ‘01), who ran cross country and track, teaches in the Henry County
Schools.
BRIAN CALL
(B.B.A. General Business ‘06)
Call, of Jonesboro, Ga., graduated
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THE LAKER CONNECTION
Congratulations State Senator Gail Buckner and fellow graduates.
Dr. Hynes and the Beale family. During Commencement, Hynes presented a posthumous
bachelor degree in honor of Sergeant First Class John C. Beale who was killed serving in Afghanistan.