Hospitality Business Management: - College of Business ...
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colleagues are trying to find a way<br />
for every hospitality student to have<br />
an international experience. Already<br />
students can choose to study in Brig,<br />
Switzerland, for a semester at the<br />
University Center Cesar Ritz, one <strong>of</strong><br />
Europe’s top hospitality management<br />
schools. Students in that program<br />
attend courses with faculty from both<br />
WSU and UCCR. Other choices for<br />
international study include a fiveweek<br />
summer program in Chaing Mai,<br />
Thailand, led by pr<strong>of</strong>essor Dogan<br />
Gursoy, and another faculty-led<br />
program in Florence, Italy.<br />
Whether they are studying in the<br />
Swiss Alps or on the Palouse, Kevin<br />
Bennett, academic advisor for the<br />
school, agrees that there is something<br />
different about WSU hospitality<br />
students.<br />
“They are very social,” he said,<br />
and laughed. He contributed this to<br />
right-brain thinking that results in<br />
gregarious, creative, people-persons,<br />
who <strong>of</strong>ten are easy to pick out <strong>of</strong> a<br />
crowd <strong>of</strong> business majors. When it’s<br />
time to organize an event, he said,<br />
“for one group it’s like pulling teeth,<br />
and the other is bouncing <strong>of</strong>f the walls<br />
Associate director Dennis Reynolds in<br />
Todd Hall.<br />
because they can’t wait to get started.”<br />
As Umbreit and his colleagues at<br />
the School <strong>of</strong> <strong>Hospitality</strong> <strong>Business</strong><br />
<strong>Management</strong> look forward to its next<br />
quarter century, one has the sense<br />
that they too can’t wait to get started.<br />
—Hope Tinney<br />
Nationwide Events planned<br />
for the Anniversary Year<br />
Save the Date<br />
Don Smith Chain Restaurant<br />
Conference Revisited<br />
March 7–8, 2007<br />
Pullman<br />
National Restaurant Show<br />
Reception<br />
May 19–22, 2007<br />
(specific date to be determined)<br />
Hyatt Regency Hotel, Chicago<br />
75th Anniversary Gala<br />
Special evening welcoming all<br />
graduates and 75th Anniversary<br />
Honorees<br />
June 21, 2007<br />
The Westin Seattle<br />
New Culinary Educator joins SHBM<br />
The <strong>College</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Business</strong> at Washington<br />
State University is pleased to<br />
announce that Jim Harbour has joined<br />
the School <strong>of</strong> <strong>Hospitality</strong> <strong>Business</strong><br />
<strong>Management</strong>. Harbour will lead<br />
the School’s culinary education and<br />
catering services.<br />
Harbour brings 20 years <strong>of</strong> restaurant<br />
management experience into the<br />
classroom, including time spent at<br />
Pullman establishments Sella’s Calzone<br />
& Pizza and Basilio’s Restaurant, as well<br />
as Houston’s Restaurant in Phoenix,<br />
Arizona, and the Sawtooth Grill in<br />
Spokane, Washington.<br />
“I am excited about the opportunity<br />
to share my passion for food and<br />
people with others, and to devote my<br />
time and energy to work that is enjoyable<br />
and fulfilling,” says Harbour. “I am<br />
pleased to have found an academic<br />
environment and pr<strong>of</strong>essional team<br />
that strives for excellence and demands<br />
what is best for students.”<br />
Harbour received his bachelor’s<br />
degree in hotel and restaurant administration<br />
with minors in business administration<br />
and nutrition from Washington<br />
State University, and his MBA from<br />
Gonzaga University in Spokane.<br />
Seattle Week Pre-Game<br />
Breakfast<br />
September 8, 2007<br />
Near Qwest Field, Seattle<br />
Burtenshaw Lecture<br />
Celebration<br />
October 2007<br />
Pullman<br />
Bay Area Anniversary<br />
Celebration<br />
November 3, 2007<br />
(prior to WSU vs. California game)<br />
San Francisco<br />
International Hotel/Motel &<br />
Restaurant Show Reception<br />
November 10–13, 2007<br />
(specific date to be determined)<br />
New York<br />
Dividend