George A. Andress III is a Wittenberg senior majoring in management with a concentration in accounting. He has gained valuable business experience working for both the United States Post Office as well as the United Parcel Service. Andress is also a member of Wittenberg’s varsity football team. A presidential scholar, Andress plans to attend a Master of Accountancy program upon graduation followed by a career in the accounting field.
Hannah E. Auxter is a Wittenberg senior majoring in management. For the last six summers she has worked with her family at the Auxter Funeral Homes doing everything from washing cars and mowing lawns to working visitations and funerals. Auxter is a member of the Wittenberg Choir and has been the tour manager for two years. Her love for music inspired her to further her education by obtaining a music minor. Auxter plans to attend the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science next September. After she becomes licensed, she will return home and work with her family.
Danielle Ginn is a senior management major with a marketing concentration from Pataskala, Ohio. Ginn has worked for The Limited Inc. as a sales representative and promoted the company’s credit card while interacting and selling merchandise to numerous customers. She also assisted Limited’s visual marketing team with creative ideas for store displays that would attract and satisfy the consumer. Ginn performed similar tasks at another retail store, Hollister Co., for two years. Ginn contributed as one of many editors for Wittenberg ’s newspaper, The Torch. She also enjoys playing volleyball, traveling, and being affiliated with Delta Gamma Sorority. Her future plans include a career in marketing or advertising.
Brian McCoach is a management and communications major from New Concord, Ohio. He works as student manager of the Oral Communication Center and an aide in the Management Department. McCoach is also involved as a tour guide for the Office of Admissions and is in the campus chapter of Habitat for Humanity. He was recently inducted into both Lambda Pi Eta, the communication honorary, and Tau Pi Phi, the management and economics honorary. McCoach completed an internship with Sports Illustrated in the Growth Markets Department this past summer. This academic year McCoach will serve as president of Tau Pi Phi and president of the Communication Club. After graduation, he plans to pursue a career in marketing and advertising in the media field.
Daniel N. McGuire is a senior at Wittenberg University majoring in both management and mathematics. He is a three year member of Tau Pi Phi, the National Business and Economics Honor Society. McGuire is also co-captain of the varsity swim team and a four year letter winner. A Wittenberg scholarship award recipient, McGuire looks forward to pursuing a career in actuarial science, finance, or operations.
Rajeevee Panditharatna is a Wittenberg senior majoring in economics and management. She transferred to Wittenberg in her junior year after attending D’Youville College in Buffalo, New York and Gateway College in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Panditharatna is a scholar of the “Presidential Classroom—Future World Leaders Summit” held at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. (March 2003). Four-hundred student leaders from more than 50 countries, who are in the top 25 percent of their class, attend this 10 day program bi-annually. She served as the Treasurer of the Prefects (Student Leaders) Guild and President of the Commerce Society at Gateway College. Panditharatna is a member of Tau Pi Phi, the management and economics honor society, and Mortarboard, the national senior honor society. She also held the position of Resident Advisor at Wittenberg during her senior year. She plans to obtain a position in finance, marketing, or consulting after graduating from Wittenberg . She also plans to attend graduate school and embarking on a career as a professor of economics teaching at the undergraduate level one day.
Clint R. Pergram is a senior management and economics major. He currently works as the student director of Wittenberg’s Center of Applied Management (WittCAM), the head houseboy for the Sigma Kappa sorority, and as a film editor for the Wittenberg University football team. He has also worked as a waiter at The Forum at Knightsbridge, a retirement home in Columbus. Pergram has spent time during the summers of 2004, 2004, and 2005 as a councilor for the National Youth Sports Program, which is a sports camp for underprivileged youths, at Wittenberg and The Ohio State University. During his first two years of college, Pergram was a member of the Wittenberg football team. During the spring of 2004, he was inducted into the Tau Pi Phi management and economics honorary society and elected as its vice president. Pergram has also served as the president of Investment Club and as vice president of the Wittenberg Human Resource Association. He became a member of the Delta Tau Delta Fraternity in the spring of 2003 and has since served as sergeant at arms and vice president. During his spare time, Pergram enjoys spending time with his friends, exercising, and playing various sports. He will begin working as an internal auditor for JP Morgan Chase this summer.
Christopher Petrik is a Wittenberg senior with a double major in management and French literature. For the past two summers, he has internec at SIRVA Relocation, LLC, where he served as a client liason and home marketing assistant. He currently works as a faculty aide to Dr. Carol Young, researching trends and theories in organizational behavior for an upcoming textbook. A cultural enthusiast, Petrik spent last semester in Dijon, France perfecting his French language skills and studying European business and economics at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Dijon. Petrik is also a presidential scholar and varsity athlete, and plans a management career in international marketing, advertising, or tourism.
Elizabeth Pike is a management major and economics minor from Mentor , Ohio . She is actively involved in service activities through her sorority Alpha Delta Pi. During her first three years at Wittenberg she worked for the Human Resources Department assisting the insurance director, Luann Shafter. At the beginning of her senior year she switched roles and became the faculty aid for the professor of finance, Dr. Lowell Stockstill. On campus she has been involved in the Investment Club, Communications Club, WittCAM, Student Impact Emerging Leaders program, Chamber Orchestra, and community service. She serves as Membership Education Vice President for her sorority and secretary for the honorary business and economics fraternity, Tau Pi Phi. Last summer, Pike took advantage of the study abroad program at Wittenberg and completed general education requirements by studying medieval history of London and London theatre for six weeks. In her spare time Pike enjoys running and being with her friends and family. In the future, she would like to explore job opportunities as a market analyst for a research firm or financial planning.
Patricia Recalde, from Quito , Ecuador , is a Wittenberg senior double major in economics and management. She interned for Multienlace, a financial and macroeconomic consulting firm in her home country this past summer, where she worked on research and preliminary drafts of sector analysis reports. A member of Wittenberg’s American International Association for all four years, she is now part of the organization’s executive board as the four-year representative. She was an International Orientation Assistant and helped international students upon their arrival to campus. Recalde was one of the co-founders of Wittenberg’s Hispanic Culture Club, where she now serves as vice president. She is part of the University Honors Program and has been on the Dean’s List all of her semesters here at Wittenberg. During her junior year, Recalde studies abroad in Florence, Italy for a semester. Besides speaking Spanish, her native language, she is also fluent in Italian. Recalde has held many jobs here on campus; she was a Resident Advisor in Tower Hall during her sophomore and junior years and currently works as a Student Manager in Thomas Library. She also tour guides for the Office of Admissions three times a week.
Ashely Reed is a Wittenberg senior majoring in business management. She ahs worked for Midwestern Medical and Reed Orthopedics for the past four summers, where she created a new system to take inventory and distribute surgical instrument sets to and from the sales representatives. Reed also spent one month during the summer of 2004 traveling across England with two professors from Wittenberg. Reed currently holds the position of Vice President of Finance for the Wittenberg chapter of the Delta Gamma sorority. She enjoys spending time with her family and friends, traveling and giving back to her community. Reed is planning a management career in marketing, public relations, or human resources.
Lesley A. Waldsmith is a Wittenberg senior double majoring in management and English literature. She was a summer intern with a small marketing firm in Dayton, Ohio and also with UBS financial services, where she worked on various marketing projects. A presidential scholar, Waldsmith is the advertising manager for the Wittenberg Student Newspaper, the Torch, and is very active in her sorority, Alpha Delta Pi. She plans to pursue a career combining her two academic passions, business and English, working in marketing or public relations.
Chelsea Williams is a Wittenberg senior majoring in management. She was a summer intern for State Farm Insurance Companies, where she worked on a new marketing plan for recruiting and retaining generation Y employees along with conducting various research projects. An East Asian Studies minor, who traveled last summer to Japan, Williams is also a member of Delta Gamma Sorority and holds the position Vice President of Social Standards. A university scholar and recipient of the Kristen Yarger Memorial Scholarship for the Society of Human Resource Management, Williams has worked in the Wittenberg Human Resources department for the past three years, and plans a management career in human resources or insurance claims for State Farm Insurance Companies.
Benjamin Woerth is a Wittenberg senior majoring in management. He was a summer intern for the Columbus, Ohio investment banking office of RBC Dain Rauscher Inc. where he assisted the office in identifying potential public finance clients, prepared marketing material, and researched and constructed user profiles. Being a strong member of the Wittenberg and Springfield community, Woerth has coached football for two years at a local Springfield high school and has been an active member for four years in the youth ministry of Young Life. A hard worker, Woerth has also found time to work for almost four years in the Wittenberg student mailroom, and plans a management career in finance or investments.