Outstanding Business Students Recognized

Each spring, Central Methodist University’s Division of Accounting, Business and Economics recognizes students for extraordinary academic achievements.

Awards were presented during a Business Division Honors Banquet, which was held Monday, April 22, on CMU’s main campus in Fayette. According to Division Chair, Julie Duerst Bennet, students who demonstrated outstanding work in the fields of accounting, finance, business management, economics, international business, marketing and advertising, entrepreneurship, and leadership, received recognition through cash awards, scholarships, certificates, and/or medals.

Fourteen students were also inducted into Delta Mu Delta, a National Business Honor Society.

Shelby Henson, a business major from Piedmont, received both the Estill Entrepreneurship Award and an ENACTUS Senior Leadership Award; Taylor Rumsey, an accounting major from Higginsville, received both the Banking and Finance Excellence Award and the Lisa Powell Goessling Merit Scholarship;

Vince Gelei, a business major from Dunakeszi, Hungary, received the Outstanding Senior in Business Award; Colin Horn, a business major from Koenigsbach-Stein, Germany, received the Noble Emmett Baskett Scholarship in Business Award; Gabriel Navarro, a business major from Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, received the Gentry Estill Award for Total Business Excellence;

Marina Alves Carvalho, a computer science and business double major from Belo Horizonte, Brazil, received the Susan Estill Award for Total Business Excellence; Andrea De Simone, a business major from Genova, Italy, received the Excellence in Management Award; Julie Thomas, a business major from Salisbury, received the Business Administration (General Business) Award;

Drew Tillman, a psychology and business double major from Fayette, received the Marketing and Advertising Excellence Award; Turner Middendorf, a sports management major from Topeka, Kan., received the Outstanding Student in Sports Management Award; Alexandra Hudelson, an accounting major from Old Monroe, received both the Outstanding Senior in Accounting Award and the ENACTUS Senior Leadership Award;

Brooke Emmerich, an accounting major from Prairie Home, received both the Pennacle Award and an Outstanding ENACTUS Senior Award; Rachel Smith, an accounting major from Wentzville, received the Shallenburger Accounting Principles Excellence Award; Julio Canales Garcia, an accounting major from Canovanas, Puerto Rico, received the Accounting Excellence Award;

and Jordan Cassmeyer, a mathematics major from Jefferson City, received an Outstanding ENACTUS Senior Award.

Gelei, Horn, Tillman, Garcia, and Navarro joined nine other students inducted into the Delta Mu Delta Honor Society. Other members named were Jerome Asbury, a sports management major from Kansas City; Madison Dixon, a business major from Calhoun; Garret Mattson, a business major from Stanberry;

Luci Brasil Amaro Sauerbronn, a sports management major from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Forest Dodge, a business major from Blue Springs; Colton Groshong, a business major from Troy; Abigaile Knopf, an accounting major from Troy, Ill.; Anna Lua Doering Speranza, a business major from Rottenburg am Neckar, Germany; and Matthew R. Widhalm, an accounting major from Columbia.


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