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MELANIE ANDERSON NAMED SIFE SAM M. WALTONFREE
ENTERPRISE FELLOW AT UPT
TITUSVILLE, May 16 -- Melanie Anderson, Assistant Professor of Business and Director of Continuing Education at the University of Pittsburgh at Titusville, once again has been named a Sam M. Walton Free Enterprise Fellow for the Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) Team at UPT. Active
on more than 1000 college campuses in 20
countries, SIFE encourages students to take what
they are learning in the classroom and apply it
to real-life situations, and to use their
knowledge to better their communities through
educational outreach projects. Under
the direction of Anderson, the UPT SIFE Team
presented its educational outreach projects at
the 2001 SIFE Regional Exposition and Career
Opportunity Fair held April 9, 2001, in
Cleveland.
The UPT SIFE Team took first runner-up in
their division. The
students presented their program to a panel of
local and national business leaders and
entrepreneurs who rated the overall
effectiveness of each team's efforts.
Regional champions named at twenty
competitions held around the country will
present their projects at the 2001 SIFE USA
National Exposition, sponsored by the Kansas
City Business Community, May 13-15 in Missouri.
The national champion in the 4-year
division will travel to London, England, in July
to compete at the inaugural SIFE World Cup. Nearly
400 Sam M. Walton Fellows nationwide train and
motivate more than 30,000 SIFE Team members
annually. The
Fellowship was created in 1990 by the Wal-Mart
Foundation and is named for Samuel More Walton,
founder and Chairman of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
"We are proud that the Walton family
invited SIFE to use Mr. Walton's name to give
the Free Enterprise Fellows a standard by which
to lead and be recognized," said Mike
Merriman, Chairman of the SIFE Board of
Directors and President & CEO of Royal
Appliance/Dirt Devil, Inc.
"The Sam M. Walton Fellows inspire
their students and are America's most effective
teachers of free enterprise." Founded
in 1975, SIFE is a non-profit organization that
works in partnership with business and higher
education to provide college students the
opportunity to make a difference and to develop
leadership, teamwork and communication skills
through learning, practicing and teaching the
principles of free enterprise.
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