News & Events
2004 Occidental Businessperson of the Year Award goes
to Todd Garner '88.
Tuesday, November
9, 2004, Jonathan Club, Los Angeles
The Occidental Business Associates was
pleased to honor Todd Garner, seventh annual recipient of the Occidental College
Businessperson of the Year Award. At the 2004 award banquet Mr.
Garner treated attendees to a fantastic multimedia presentation on
"The Business of Movie Making." In this presentation he
compared two movies, Hollywood Homicide and XXX, that looked similar in
terms of their chances to succeed but had very different outcomes.
Garner explained how Revolution Studios succeeds as a company by keeping
overhead low and focusing on producing a limited number of high quality
films every year. The presentation was made ever more lively by
exchanges between Garner and guest Cuba Gooding Jr.
Todd Garner is a Partner at Revolution Studios where he is responsible
for overseeing all aspects of development and production for the
company's motion pictures. Garner served as an executive producer
on the hit films The Forgotten, 13
Going on 30, XXX, Radio,
and Anger Management.
He is also the Executive Producer of Click, starring Adam
Sandler and XXX: State of the Union, starring Ice Cube, Willem
Dafoe, and Sam Jackson, which are currently in production.
OBA
Hosts the Callaway
Vineyards Tour and Temecula Wine Tasting with Professor Ralph Amey,
Ph.D.
Saturday April 17th, 2004
The Occidental Business Associates
hosts a tour of Callaway
Vineyards in Temecula, featuring Ralph Amey, Professor of
Chemistry and noted wine expert and author. Everyone enjoyed a
great day of wine tasting, gourmet lunch, and tour of Callaway Vineyards amoung
other stops at Temecula's fabulous wineries.
RALPH AMEY teaches wine appreciation classes, leads wine tours in
California and Mexico, and regularly writes articles on all aspects of
wine. A certified wine educator (CWE) and member of the Society of Wine
Educators (SWE) for 20 years, Ralph Amey is a founding member of the
Southern California Chapter of SWE, and is its current president.
He also holds a Ph.D. in chemistry and teaches General Chemistry,
Physical Chemistry I (Thermodynamics), and Materials Chemistry at
Occidental College.
BOOK FOR SALE! Professor Amey's latest book, Wines of Baja
California: Touring and Tasting Mexico's Undiscovered Treasures, is available for purchase. More
OBA Hosts "Take the Work out of
Networking," with John Ullmen, Ph.D. - February 24th, 2004.
Johnson Student Center/Freeman College Union.
John Ullmen, Ph.D., founding partner of Authentic Network Systems, Inc.,
conducted an award winning networking skills-building workshop designed to help
develop lasting professional relationships. His approach is based on years of experience with Fortune 500 executives and leading professional services firms.
The seminar was packed and had to be moved to a larger venue to
accomodate the overwhelming response. Everyone walked away with
great new insights into the art of networking, and not surprisingly, a
tremendous amount of win-win networking occurred. More
OBA
Honors Patricia Sueltz at the Jonathan Club –
October 21st, 2003.
The 2003
OBA Alumni Businessperson of the Year Award Dinner was held at the
Jonathan Club in downtown Los Angeles on October 21st, 2003,
with several members of the Board of Trustees in attendance. The
event honored award recipient Patricia Sueltz '75 who has a long career
of exceptional accomplishments at IBM and Sun Microsystems. Pat
gave an exceptional keynote speech on the future of computing, noting
that network computing and mobile computing would continue to be
important areas in the next several years. Check out the Event
Photos. This event was produced
by OBA Board Members Mark Marriott, Jacquie Ochoa, and Silva Zeneian.
