Lisa Wright was given the Presidential Honors Award in BellSouths service leader program for exemplary service to business, residential or wholesale customers. The award is the highest given for customer service within the company. Wright works at BellSouth Communication Systems in Memphis as an area operations manager.

Carol Danehower was appointed associate dean of the Fogelman College of Business and Economics at the University of Memphis. Danehower joined U of M in 1989 and had served as MBA programs director since 2002. She earned a bachelors degree from Hendrix College, a masters degree from the University of Arkansas and a doctorate from the University of Kentucky.

The Campbell Foundation announced Jack Blair, Robert Compton, James McGehee Jr., Frank Norfleet, John Pontius and Reid Sanders are new board of trustees members. Appointed officers include Blair, chairman; James Beaty, chief staff officer; Terry Canale, president; Mark Jobe, treasurer; and William Warner, secretary.

Dr. Douglas E. Hurley was appointed vice president for information technology and chief information officer at the University of Memphis. Hurley previously worked at Gartner Inc. as director of university relations. He earned a masters degree from the University of Vermont and a doctorate from Kansas State University.

Gary Rabideau was appointed managing broker of Crye-Leike Inc.s Mount Juliet, Tenn., branch office. Previously, Rabideau served as a sales associate at the Bartlett office. He is an accredited buyer representative and completed the Graduate Realtors Institute program.

Peggy Seessel was appointed director of arts education for the Greater Memphis Arts Council. Seessel joined the staff in 1985 as director of development, and most recently served on the Artrageous steering committee. She earned a bachelors degree from Northwestern University.

Sterritt Armstrong was appointed to lead Bank of Americas private banking practice for the Memphis area. Armstrong previously worked as a private client adviser in New York and Atlanta for Credit Suisse First Boston Private Client Services. He earned a bachelors degree from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a masters in business administration from the University of Memphis.

Crye-Leike Inc. announced that the following affiliate brokers joined during first quarter 2003: Linda Bryson, Kendra J. Carbuccia, Misty Hill and Monica Rainey at the Olive Branch, Miss., office; and Jamie Ray at the Southaven office.

Archer-Malmo announced the promotions of three employees in its public relations department. Suzanne Levine was promoted to account executive from account manager. Zac Ives and Jill Moore were promoted to account managers from account coordinators.

The University of Memphis Division of Health Administration elected Christy Travis, Memphis Business Group on Health chief executive officer, as president of its program advisory board for 2003. In addition, the following members were installed: Jerry Brantley, Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. vice president and metro Memphis market leader; Steve Burkett, University of Tennessee Medical Group CEO; William R. Delamater, Veterans Administration Medical Center associate director; Maurice Elliott, Methodist Healthcare CEO emeritus; LaDon Jones, Baptist vice president and chief information officer; Nancy Lawhead, special assistant to the Shelby County mayor on health policy; David Mirvis, UT Center for Health Services and Policy Research director; Emilia Odife, student representative; Stuart Polly, Regional Medical Center medical director; Henry Smith, BlueCross BlueShield vice president of marketing; Ronald L. Smith, St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital administrative director of pathology and laboratory medicine; Delores W. Voigt, St. Francis Hospital vice president; and Kae Werkoven, St. Peters Villa administrator.

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