CBA names its top students for 2006

The College of Business Administration announces its top five outstanding students of the year.

• Most Outstanding Student: Jessica Wojciechowski, Mount Pleasant senior
  – $1,000 award

• Student of the Year: Lesley Pionk, Ruth senior – $500 award

• Students of the Year: Heather Gordon, Croswell senior; Jamie Graham, St. Johns junior; Carrie Maneikis, Whitmore Lake senior – $250 awards

Jessica Wojciechowski

Wojciechowski majored in marketing and interpersonal and public communications and earned a minor in leadership. She completed internships with CMU’s Office of International Education and Pulte Homes of Michigan and will be an intern with Target this summer.

A recipient of the Leonard and Louise Plachta Centralis Scholar Award, Wojciechowski also is an Honors student. She was a 2005 Homecoming Gold Ambassador and held campus leadership positions in Phi Sigma Sigma, PanHellenic Council, Alpha Kappa Psi, Beta Gamma Sigma, Leadership Conference, Leadership Safari, National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Order of Omega, and Rho Lambda. She also was in the Golden Key International Honour Society, was a Meijer Community Volunteer of the Year, a CMU Admissions campus ambassador, and an orientation mentor. She has worked as a counselor and craft instructor at Spring Hill Camp in Evart, a sales associate at Chloe Fine Gifts and Home Furnishings in Mount Pleasant, and a student assistant in CMU’s business information systems department.

Lesley Pionk

Pionk majored in management information systems. She has been actively involved in the Association of Information Technology Professionals, Management Information Systems Advisory Board, the College of Business Administration cohort program, Dance Umbrella, as a tutor, and as a volunteer at many Red Cross Blood Drives. She completed internships at Steelcase, working in database management, and at Consumers Energy in information technology auditing. She has accepted employment at Rockwell Collins in Iowa after graduation in May.

Heather Gordon

Gordon majored in logistics management and marketing. Her volunteer activities included a Habitat for Humanity project, Adopt-a-Family, Relay for Life, community soup kitchen, special populations dance, cleaning up the environment, and reading to elementary students. She served in leadership positions in the Logistics Management Council Honor Society and the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals marketing and publicity committees. She completed internships at Toyota Technical Center in Ann Arbor and Pulte Homes in Bloomfield Hills. She created a marketing plan for the CMU Volunteer Center, and she applied business and assessment tools for the Trillium’s Supply Chain.

Jamie Graham

Graham majored in human resource management. She has volunteered at the Native American Powwow, Relay for Life, and Walk Into the Light. She served in leadership roles for the Society for Advancement of Management, Society for Human Resource Management, Business Cohort Program, Business Residential College (also a mentor), CMU Club Tennis, and Beta Gamma Sigma. She completed an internship with Gestamp US HardTech in Mason and will be an intern at Domino’s Pizza World Resource Center in the human resources department this summer.

Carrie Maneikis

Maneikis majored in business teacher education, retail management, and general business administration. She was actively involved in Pi Omega Pi, Beta Gamma Sigma, Golden Key International Honour Society, and the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. She also served as a Leadership Safari guide for two years and gave tours of campus as a campus ambassador. She participated in five Alternative Spring Breaks and was a site leader for four of those. She served in AmeriCorp as a Michigan Service Scholar for two years, was a member of the CMU Honors Program, and a CMU Freshman of the Year.