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Spring 2009 Gold Axe Award Winners and Distinguished Senior Recognized
April 14 at the Spring awards banquet, the Gold Axe Award winners were recognized, along with the NAU faculty or staff member the students named as having the most significant impact on them during their undergraduate career.
During the same ceremony, Elizabeth Ann Brook, a finance and business economics major, was named a Distinguished Senior by the FCB.
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Russell Crawford, management; Doug Brown – significant faculty influence |  |
Christopher Goeman, accounting and HRM; Kay Pitt – significant faculty influence |
Students Shine in Sales Competition
Colin Nohl (Sr., MGT and Kyle Pearson (Sr., MKT), received awards in the 5th annual Western States Collegiate Sales Competition on April 18. Eighteen students from ASU, CSU-Bakersfield, CSU-Chico, CSU-Fresno and NAU participated in the event. Nohl placed 5th in the overall competition and Pearson was 1st runner up in the ADP category. Both students received plaques and significant monetary awards for their outstanding performances.
The event was hosted by ASU’s Morrison School of Management and sponsored by ADP, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, and Liberty Mutual. Liberty Mutual and ADP trained the students on their products. The students then prepared two 15-minute role plays as representatives of each company. The sales presentations were judged on the opening, mining the buyers’ needs, selling benefits, and closing technique. Nohl and Pearson were coached by Jennie Mitchell, lecturer of marketing. Mitchell teaches Professional Selling, an elective for upper division business students.
