{"id":10588,"date":"2017-02-21T19:24:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T19:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.prd.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/?p=10588"},"modified":"2017-02-21T19:29:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T19:29:35","slug":"reunion-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/reunion-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Reunion 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the past eight years, Owen has celebrated its Alumni Weekend in April. Last October, Owen rejoined the rest of Vanderbilt in celebrating Reunion in the fall.<\/p>\n

In addition to Owen\u2019s traditional wine and cheese night\u2014as well as the Saturday night dinner honoring this year\u2019s Distinguished Alumni Award winner, Virginia \u201cGigi\u201d Lazenby, BA\u201967, MBA\u201973\u2014 alumni were able to participate in a range of events, from Vanderbilt lectures to football tailgates.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Save the date for the next Reunion on October 6 and 7, 2017.<\/p>\n

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Virginia \u201cGigi\u201d Lazenby, BA\u201967, MBA\u201973, receives the 2016 Distinguished Alumni Award.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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2015 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient Heiki Miki, MBA\u201996 (right), is pictured with Sylvia Boyd (center), associate director of alumni career services, and Roman T. Goate, EMBA\u201915.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ed Alston, MMgmt\u201971 (left), speaks with Nancy Lea Hyer (center), professor and associate dean of MBA programs, and Nancy Johnson, wife of Dean Eric Johnson.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Alumni Board Chair Erika Bogar King, MBA\u201999, addresses the crowd.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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John Sappenfield, MBA\u201991, receives a hug from Owen\u2019s Chief Admissions and Recruiting Officer Tami Fassinger, BA\u201985.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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New Alumni Board members David Walker, MBA\u201989, and Janet McCormick, MBA\u201988, return to Owen for Reunion and their first board meeting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Alumni Board member Derek Young, MBA\u201991, speaks at the Opening Bell networking breakfast.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Photos by Kristi Irving and Terry Wyatt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the past eight years, Owen has celebrated its Alumni Weekend in April. Last October, Owen rejoined the rest of Vanderbilt in celebrating Reunion in the fall. In addition to Owen\u2019s traditional wine and cheese night\u2014as well as the Saturday night dinner honoring this year\u2019s Distinguished Alumni Award winner, Virginia \u201cGigi\u201d Lazenby, BA\u201967, MBA\u201973\u2014 alumni […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":399,"featured_media":10592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-10588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-reunion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10588"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10601,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10588\/revisions\/10601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}