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For immediate release               Contact:  Cabell Smith
Oct. 10, 1994                       (919) 660-7722
                                    CSmith@dukefsb.bitnet


IBM VICE PRESIDENT
TO GIVE FUQUA COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS


        DURHAM, N.C. -- William R. Kress, vice president of
manufacturing and site general manager of IBM in Research
Triangle Park, will give the commencement address when
Duke University's Fuqua School of Business graduates two
classes of Executive MBA students Oct. 16.
        After two years of balancing graduate school with
full-time careers and family life, members of Fuqua's
evening executive and weekend executive MBA programs will
receive their degrees during a 2 p.m. ceremony in Page
Auditorium on Duke's West Campus.
        As general manager, Kress is responsible for IBM's
largest manufacturing and product development sites.  More
than 10,000 people work at the RTP site, where networking
hardware and software products and personal computers are
developed and manufactured.
        There are 56 evening executive MBA graduates and 40
weekend executive MBA graduates.
        The evening executive MBA program was designed for
younger managers who attend classes two evenings every
week during a 25-month course of study.  The first class
graduated in 1973, and the last class will graduate in
1995.  The weekend executive MBA program is designed for middle-
 to upper-level managers who attend classes on Friday and
Saturday of alternate weekends for 20 months.  The first
weekend class graduated in 1985, and new classes enter
each January.
        The following is a list of the evening executive MBA
program graduates:
        From Durham are: Jonathan S. Beck, IBM Corp.; James
Tjin-Tek Chang, Northern Telecom Inc.; Christine Edwards,
Glaxo Inc.; Donald Lee Fowler, First Citizens Bank; Sharon
Corinne Freedman, IBM Corp.; Ann Deren Gannon, UNC
Physicians & Associates; Michael Allen Griffin, IBM Corp.;
Jeffrey Paul Hasmann, Cherokee Sanford Brick; Willie
Gordon Hendricks, Northern Telecom Inc.; William Warner
Kerns, Centura Bank; Timothy B. LeMaster, Burlington
Industries, Inc.; Ho-Yu Pan, Duke University Medical
Center; Aurel Simion Selezeanu, Duke University; and
Richard Peter Wawrzynski, Duke University Medical Center.
        Other Evening Executive MBA Graduates are: Sergio
Amoni, IBM Corp., Raleigh; Lawrence Bradford Bass,
AlliedSignal Inc., Cary; Mark W. Beale, BASF Corp.,
Raleigh; William Henry Binns Sr., Weavexx, Raleigh; Debra
Kaye Budrow, Knightdale; Zachary L. Butcher, Black &
Decker Corp., Greensboro; Anthony Vincent Cafazo, Mead
Paper, Elon College; Paul F. Dalbo, IBM Corp., Cary; David
Allen Dye, Raychem Corp., Angier; Charlene Lanette Evans,
IBM Corp., Raleigh; Lorna Deneen Flowers, State Employees'
Credit Union, Knightdale; Terry Sylvester Francis, IBM
Corp., Raleigh; James Simpson Glasscock Jr., Becton
Dickinson & Co., Rougemont; Loyd Wells Graves, GKN
Automotive, Cary; Michael Edward Green, Automated Analysis
Corp., Raleigh; Robert Mark Howland, GE Capital, Raleigh;
Ralph Angelo Ippolito, GE Capital, Raleigh; Herschel B.
Kenney, Glaxo Inc., Raleigh; Janet Ellen Kirk, IBM Corp.,
Apex; Ronald Dean Kunkel, Exide Electronics, Raleigh;
Janice Martinez LaCava, GKN Automotive, Raleigh; D.
Montgomery Lewis, AlliedSignal Inc., Richmond, Va.; Gary
Scott MacConnell, MacConnell & Associates, P.C., Cary; Lee
Anne McGee, L&M Companies, Inc., Raleigh; William Edward
Melson, Procter & Gamble, Greensboro; Jeffrey Lionel Mott,
Union Corrugating Co., Fayetteville; Mark J. Nycek, IBM
Corp., Raleigh; Jonathan Clay Oxford, GE Capital, Raleigh;
Michael C. Rafko, Raychem Corp., Apex; Richard Spencer
Renfrow, First Citizens Bank, Franklinton; Mitchell Warren
Sanner III, Freudenberg Spunweb Co., Raleigh; Gary Alan
Schlachter, IBM Corp., Cary; Alan Schwartz, Molecular
Technologies Management Association, Chapel Hill; George
Lee Singleton, Raleigh Federal Savings Bank, Raleigh; John
H. Thomas, American Cyamamid, Hightstown, N.J.; Timothy
Wayne Thompson, ABB Power T&D Co. Inc., Raleigh; Veleta
Martin Thomson, Northern Telecom Inc., Cary; Douglas
Shannon Tracy, U.S. Air Force, Goldsboro; Dale Drew
Vermillion, Robinson Humphrey, Division of Smith Barney,
Chapel Hill; Sloan Ryan Weitzel, AT&T Paradyne, Jamestown;
Keith Raymond Worfolk, IBM Corp., Raleigh; John W. York,
Du Pont Pharma, Cary.
        The following are graduates of Fuqua's weekend
executive MBA program:
        From North Carolina:  Scott Howard Adams, Dixie
Yarns, Inc., Gastonia; William Blaine Allen, WBA
Management Advisors, Raleigh; Cheryl F. Anderson, IBM
Corp., Hillsborough; John Michael Breeland, Consolidated
Diesel Corp., Rocky Mount; Bruce Allen Carucci, IBM Corp.,
Apex;  Mark Stone Collins, BellSouth Telecommunications
Inc., Raleigh;  Lester W. Ellis III, AT&T Global
Information Solutions, Fayetteville; Robert Joseph
Giannuzzi, IBM Corp., Raleigh; Donnie Lee Goins, BNR Inc.,
Raleigh; R. Scott Henson, Threads, USA, Stanley; William
Seaburg Johnson, Duke University, Durham; Ted R. Laws,
Guaranty State Bancorp, Hillsborough; Martin C. Light,
Jr., Siecor Corp., Taylorsville; Franklin D. Little Jr.,
Ciba, Greensboro;  Andrew Frederic Meyer, Duke University
Medical Center, Chapel Hill;  Ronald S. Rennard, IBM
Corp., Charlotte; Edward French Richards, Montague-Betts
Co., Lynchburg; Mary Ellen Rosen, IBM Corp., Raleigh;
James Edward Short II, Burroughs Wellcome Co., Cary; Mary
Margrethe Szabat, IBM Corp., Holly Springs; Roger D.
VonCannon, Concord;  Brenda F. Whitesell, GE Capital,
Raleigh;  Jeffrey M. Yoh, H.L. Yoh Company, Bermuda Run.
        From outside North Carolina:  John Russell Andrews,
Signet Bank, Richmond, Va.; Dan R. Cochlin, Ericsson GE
Mobile Communications, Inc., Lynchburg, Va.; John Phillip
Crowder, Eastman Chemical Co., Kingsport, Tenn.; Robert
Carl Engemoen Jr., Weidmuller Inc., Richmond, Va.; Edward
J. Kelly, Ericsson GE Mobile Communications, Inc.,
Lynchburg, Va.; Robert A. Kotecki, Friedman, Billings,
Ramsey & Co., Inc., Arlington, Va.; Jeffrey Edward Miles,
South Carolina State Ports Authority, Mt. Pleasant, S.C.;
John L. Miller, Philip Morris USA, Richmond, Va.; David J.
Morrissey, ARINC Inc., Severna Park, Md.; Jeff A. Norris,
Affinity Financial Group, Inc., Lexington, S.C.; Roberto
Palacios, The Prudential Florida Realty, Miami; George
Edmond Sanderson, Frank & Son, Inc., Myrtle Beach, S.C.;
Robert Foster Stockwell, Cardinal Bancshares, Inc.,
Lexington, Ky.; John M. Suzuki, Ericsson GE Mobile
Communications, Inc., Forest, Va.;  Ruben Dario Taborda,
McNeil Consumer Products, Round Rock, Texas; John Clinton
Walters, Wheat First Butcher Singer, Richmond, Va.; Mark
Richard Wittenstein, W.R. Grace & Co., Palm Beach Gardens,
Fla.
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