2006 Alumni Award Recipients
The following award recipients were honored at an evening ceremony on May 17, 2006. Award recipients were selected by the Terry College Alumni Board.
2006 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients
- Joe Beverly (BBA 1963, MBA 1964)
- Chairman, Commercial Bank
- Thomasville, Georgia
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- J. Paul Holmes (BBA 1963)
- Vice Chairman, Life of the South Insurance Co.
- Monticello, Georgia
- Video profile
- Biography
- Leo Wells (BBA 1967)
- President, Wells Real Estate Investment Trust Inc.
- Norcross, Georgia
- Video profile
- Biography
2006 Outstanding Young Alumni Award
- Richard Courts, IV (BBA 1995)
- Vice President, Carter (commercial real estate)
- Video profile
- Biography
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.
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Contact Information
Alumni Relations
University of Georgia
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