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April 23, 2007

Delta CEO Accepts Citizen Diplomat Award at Consular Ball

British Singer Songwriter Performs at New Atlanta Condo

10,000 Students from 23 Countries Compete in Atlanta

New EVP and Managing Director Named for CNN International

KSU Alumnus Launches Executive MBA Scholarship

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Delta CEO Accepts Citizen Diplomat Award at Consular Ball

Delta Air Lines Inc. CEO Gerald Grinstein accepted the Georgia Consular International Visitors Citizen Diplomat Award at the Georgia Council for International Visitors’ annual Consular Ball on April 14. Mr. Grinstein dedicated the award to Delta’s 46,000 employees during the event, which was the first for which the company had been a presenting sponsor.

“To the Delta people, I want to thank you for the honor Delta receives tonight,” Mr. Grinstein said. “We are 46,000 strong and they have done a remarkable job. We are fortunate things broke our way, but [the employees] made it happen,” he said.

The event was attended by some 450 guests to honor Atlanta’s Consular Corps representing 57 governments with consular offices here.

Former Amb. Andrew Young and Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., offered remarks congratulating Mr. Grinstein for leading the company out of its difficult economic situation.

Delta’s sponsorship of the Consular Ball helped to highlight the airline’s ongoing international expansion, according to Alfreda Turner, manager of commercial sales development international.

Delta has opened 70 new international routes since October 2005.

For more information, contact Ms. Turner at (404) 677-5287 or visit www.delta.com.

 

British singer/songwriter James Morrison (right) and his pianist recently performed a private concert at the new Paramount condominium. Photo by Leigh Miller.

British Singer Songwriter Performs at New Atlanta Condo

British singer/songwriter James Morrison performed a private concert for Atlanta radio station DAVE FM on April 16 at the Paramount condominium in Buckhead as part of a promotion for the new high-rise living venue.

Mr. Morrison performed four songs from his album, Undiscovered, including “You Give Me Something” and “Wonderful World.” The album has sold more than 1 million copies worldwide.

He is touring with American musician John Mayer and opened for Mr. Mayer’s concert on April 16 at Vinyl music venue in Atlanta.

For more information about Mr. Morrison, visit www.JamesMorrisonMusic.com. For the Paramount at Buckhead, visit www.ParamountAtlanta.com and for DAVE FM, visit www.929dave.fm.

For more information about the James Morrison concert or about The Paramount at Buckhead, contact Mallory Tacker at mallory.tacker@edelman.com or (404) 460-1494.

 

10,000 Students from 23 Countries Compete in Atlanta

More than 10,000 students from 23 countries competed in the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) Championship at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta April 13-15.

Three teams from Worcester, Massachusetts, Las Vegas, and South Windsor, Connecticut, won the robotics, nanotechnology and LEGO building blocks competitions.

More than 1,300 teams from the from the United States, Brazil, Canada, Israel, Mexico, Netherlands, the United Kingdom and other countries competed for months to qualify for the championship.

For the robotics portion of the championship, student teams built robots that performed maneuvers, while 94 teams from around the world built LEGO structures to compete in the LEGO competition.

Students ages 9 to 14 designed, built and programmed robots for the nanotechnology competition.

Students won some $8 million from science and engineering universities, including Drexel University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Engineers and teachers were also honored for their teaching excellence in science, math and creative design.

Visit www.usfirst.org for more information about the championship and about FIRST.

 

New EVP and Managing Director Named for CNN International

Tony Maddox, former senior vice president of news operations for CNN International, was named executive vice president and managing director.

Replacing Chris Cramer, who is retiring, Mr. Maddox assumes responsibility for five CNN services in English, CNN en Espanol, CNNj, CNN.com International, CNNArabic.com, the joint ventures CNN+, CNN-IBN and CNN Turk, as well as international newsgathering and editorial and programming.

He is based in Atlanta at CNN world headquarters and reports to Jim Walton, president of CNN Worldwide.

Previously, Mr. Maddox was responsible for CNN's 26 international bureaus and international news for the CNN Worldwide organization. He also managed the international news desk in Atlanta and supervised recruiting and staff training.

Visit www.cnn.com for more information.

KSU Alumnus Launches Executive MBA Scholarship

Gus George Maroun, a 2001 graduate of the Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University, has created a scholarship for executive master’s of business administration students at the school.

The Gus George Maroun EMBA Scholarship Fund is funded by a $100,000 donation from the John and Rosemary Brown Family Foundation, with a $25,000 scholarship to be awarded to one incoming Coles College student each year for four years.

The scholarship is for prospective students who are leaders of community service organizations.

Mr. Maroun, a native of Lebanon, is a corporate account manager for Ecolab Inc., which manufactures cleaning, sanitizing, food safety and infection control products and services for the foodservice, food and beverage processing, healthcare and hospitality industries in more than 160 countries.

The first scholarship will be awarded in the fall of 2008.

For more information, visit coles.kennesaw.edu.