JMSB team wins award for alumni event

 

Congratulations to a team led by JMSB Alumni Relations Officer Uzma Mustafa. They won silver in the Best Alumni Event category of the 2005 Prix d'Excellence given by the Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education.

The CCAE unites university professionals in advancement, alumni affairs and communications.

Mustafa explained, “The award was for a project for the John Molson School of Business in Homecoming last fall.

“It was called ‘Portraits of Success - 30 Who Have Made Us Proud,,’ and was a reception held at the Ritz Carlton Hotel.

“We invited 30 prominent alumni to stand and be recognized as "portraits of success" — thirty, because it’s the 30th anniversary of the university.

“Each table had one of these alumni and a guest, and others who wanted to attend the event. In total we had 260 people.

“We had a jazz trio playing all night and the maquette of the new JMSB building in the middle of the cocktail room as a conversation piece. The buzz was great around the event and it went off without a glitch.”

Among those involved in the smooth organization of Portraits of Success were Laura Stanbra, Cornelia Molson, Michel Magnan, Bill Kovalchuk (chair of the event), Linda Susnik, Alex Robertson, Sonia Pivetta, Germaine Chan, Cythia Hedrich and Natasha Motard.