2003 Alumni Award Recipients
These award recipients were honored at Terry Third Thursday on April 17, 2003. Award recipients were selected by the Terry College Alumni Board.
View 2003 Awards Ceremony Introduction (video)
2003 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients
- Jeffrey T. Dunn (BBA '80)
- President and Chief Operating Officer, Coca-Cola North America
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Video profile
- L. Phillip Reames (MAcc '70)
- Chairman and CEO, Argent, Inc.
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Video profile
- James H. Shepherd, Jr. (BBA '73)
- Vice President, Shepherd Construction Company, Inc.
- Chairman and CEO, Plant Improvement Company
- Chairman, Shepherd Center, Inc.
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Video profile
2003 Outstanding Young Alumni Award
- Alisa L. Pittman (BBA '93)
- Partner, Elarbee, Thompson, Sapp & Wilson, LLP
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Video profile
About the Award
The Alumni Awards keepsake is a handcrafted glass vase by artist Paul Bendzunas. Introduced as the Terry College’s Alumni Award in 2002, the handblown pieces are formed from molten glass using a five-foot-long stainless steel pipe. Each one-of-a-kind glass vase is signed and dated by the artist.
A native of Oswego, N.Y., Bendzunas attended the University of Georgia from 1971 to 1975, where he majored in art education and minored in sculpture. After graduation, he studied glass art at the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina and continued to teach himself — making his own equipment, developing his colors and refining his forms. Paul and Barbara Bendzunas now own and operate a studio in the small northeast Georgia town of Comer.
Awards Archive
Contact Information
Alumni Relations
University of Georgia
278 Brooks Hall
