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Partee Wins 2009 Academic Excellence and Leadership Award

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The following is the speech given at the awards banquet on April 16, 2009 by Summer DeProw, Department of Business Chair.

Good Evening!  My name is Summer DeProw and I am Chair of the Department of Business.  This is one of my favorite events and I look forward to presenting the Department of Business Academic and Leadership Excellence Award all year. As Chair, I could delegate this responsibility but I don’t because I am selfish.

As I describe our winner, I am going to give you some advice.  Here is the advice:  WATCH OUT FOR THE QUIET ONES!  I have three reasons for this advice:

• Quiet ones are good listeners.  If you are a gaffe machine like me, these people listen and remember everything.  Our winner has never said “you didn’t tell me that or I didn’t hear you”. 

Also, because she is such a good listener, her professors presented her with the “Most Dependable” Business student award.  Also her peers elected her to serve as VP of the business organization Phi Beta Lambda.

• The quiet ones are also good decision makers.  When they speak, you need to listen. 

Our academic award winner has earned the following awards because she is a good decision maker:

• 7th place in Marketing at the 2008 Phi Beta Lambda National Competition. Competing with schools such as Rutgers and University of North Carolina
• 1st place in Marketing at the 2008 State PBL competition and 3rd in Business Communications

•  The third reason to watch out for the quiet one is they have a good and diverse sense of humor.  Many times our award winner can be seen with a big grin on her face, an index finger extended and a hand over her mouth laughing at her peers and mostly her gaffe machine professors.

The Business Department cannot take full credit for her success.  She is a Communication Arts minor and Sherri Midkiff and Melinda Williams have done a great job mentoring our winner.

To conclude this presentation, I remind you:  Watch out for the quiet ones and watch out for KENDRA PARTEE!