Six supply chain students receive Richter scholarships
By Paul Teague -- Purchasing, 5/9/2006 2:00:00 AM
At a special awards dinner at the 91st Annual ISM Conference in Minneapolis May 8, six students received R. Gene Richter scholarship awards.
The awards, which include tuition assistance up to $5,000, went to Beth Aven of Western Michigan University’s Haworth College of Business; Matthew Lefeld, Bowling Green State University; Simon Huleatt, North Carolina State; Marcio Bogoricin Oliveira, Penn State; Jonathan Ulrich, the University of Maryland; and Amy Kris Smith, Arizona State.
Besides the tuition assistance, each student winner is offered two separate mentoring programs: an executive mentoring program that pairs the student with a working professional supply chain executive; and a junior mentoring program that pairs the student with a Richter scholar from the class of 2004.
The award honors the memory and contributions of R. Gene Richter, three-time winner of the Purchasing Medal of Excellence, who led supply chain organizations at The Black & Decker Corporation, Hewlett-Packard and IBM. The purpose of the program is to identify future supply-management leaders.
Also at the awards dinner, six companies won ISM’s Richter Awards for Leadership and Innovation in Supply Management. The winners were:
• Johnson & Johnson
• KLA-Tencor
• Fluor Hanford
• Rockwell Collins, which also won the 2005 Purchasing Medal of Excellence
• BP
• And Daimler Chrysler
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