Alumni News
June 04, 2013
Eco Values
Bronco-owned Juice Beauty offers high end organic beauty products. Read the story and get 15% off on purchases with a MyWMU Concierge Card during the month of June. Karen Behnke established her business on some pretty simply, thoughtful, values—and she stands behind them. Juice Beauty leads the industry in high...
June 02, 2013
MyWMU Digest Vol. VIII
News, updates, memories and honors submitted for and by Western Michigan University Alumni. See what other Broncos have been up to and share your story. Heraclio Atencio-Bello (BBA '66, Economics) practices law in Venezuela. "Soon I will be 69 years of age. As a foreign student, I still remember the...
May 21, 2013
Outstanding Leadership
Michael Nienhuis (BS '09, Mechanical Engineering; MS '12, Mechanical Engineering) has been honored with the SAE International Rumbaugh Outstanding Student Leader Award. Nienhuis is now an engineer and involved in the Ford College Graduate Program for Product Development. While a student at WMU, Nienhuis was involved with the Formula SAE...
May 14, 2013
Best of the Best
Michael Debs (BBA '80, Accountancy) loves to the solve the problems that pop up during any average day. Accounting can be 'traditional,' but problems are not—and allow for a lot of creative intelligence. Debs, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of Kelly Services, was selected by Execrank as a Top Chief...
May 12, 2013
Community Health Chair
Rev. Dr. Michael C.R. Nabors (BS '82, English), senior pastor of Detroit’s New Calvary Baptist Church since 1997, has been appointed Gateway Community Health’s (GCH) Board Chairman. Nabors has served more than 25 religious and community leadership boards in Michigan and New Jersey including the Board of the Detroit Branch...
May 12, 2013
Rising Star
After leaving from WMU, Lisa Esser-Weidenfeller (BBA '03, Finance) graduated summa cum laude from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in 2006. Today she practices in the areas of medical malpractice, wrongful death, and birth injury. Recently, Esser-Weidenfeller was elected shareholder at Sommers Schwartz, P.C. in Southfield, MICH.—where she is the...