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EVENT: Simon Graduate School of Business Convocation Ceremony and Picnic

Release Date: Sep 18, 2008

EVENT: Simon Graduate School of Business Convocation Ceremony and Picnic

TIME, DATE, AND PLACE: Convocation Ceremony, Noon, Friday, September 19, 2008, Strong Auditorium, University of Rochester River Campus. Picnic immediately following ceremony behind Lattimore Hall.

Rochester, N.Y.—September 18, 2008—Simon School Dean Mark Zupan, University administrators, and Simon School faculty will welcome the M.B.A. Classes of 2009 and 2010. Dean Zupan and Dusty Riddle ’09, president of the Graduate Business Council, will be the first members of the Simon community to sign the Simon School Credo, a student-authored set of principles emphasizing the importance of integrity and ethics. Simon was among the first leading business schools to adopt a credo in 2006. Following the ceremony, all members of the University community in attendance will have the option of signing the credo to affirm their commitment to integrity and ethical behavior. The credo will later be framed and prominently displayed in Schlegel Hall on the University’s River Campus.

Alan Zekelman, M.S. ’87 will deliver the Convocation Address. Zekelman is a board member of the John Maneely Company, a niche manufacturing firm, and former president of its subsidiary, Atlas Tube Inc., a leading Canadian manufacturer of steel construction and industrial tubing. A native of Windsor, Ontario, Zekelman and his family have long been involved in charitable activities including the Holocaust Memorial Center near Detroit, Mich., where he and his brothers donated $10 million in honor of their parents, their paternal grandparents and siblings who perished in the Holocaust. In addition to his Simon degree, Zekelman holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Toronto.

A Convocation Picnic will immediately follow the ceremony behind Lattimore Hall.

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The Simon School prides itself as the place Where Thinkers Become Leaders™ and is currently ranked among the leading graduate business schools in the world in rankings published by the popular press, including BusinessWeek, U.S. News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and Forbes. For example, the Financial Times recently rated the School 2nd in the world for finance and 5th in the world for managerial economics. More information about the Simon School is available on the World Wide Web at www.simon.rochester.edu.