Future Executives Impressive at Competition Wheeling Jesuit University's Future Executives Club won two awards in the Students in Free Enterprise regional competition April 8 in Cleveland. The club took home second place runner-up and rookie of the year honors for the Cleveland region. The purpose of SIFE is for university students to develop programs to promote free enterprise. It is sponsored by major corporations such as Wal-Mart, American Greeting Cards, Kraft Foods and Rubbermaid. Each April, the schools present their projects to senior managers from the sponsoring companies at regional contests.
Regional winners go on to an international competition.
A mentoring program in which club members were assigned WJU alumni mentors from the business community and served as mentors to Wheeling Park High School students. Club members who participated in the Cleveland competition were Rizwan Qazi, Tanya Hunt, Tonya Hunt, Shelly Newton, Matt Hurley and Kevin Hawley . Technical support was provided by Will Berisford and Mike Terek . Other club members who contributed to the team's success but were unable to attend the competition were Christine Ralbovsky and Amy Shupe . Ralbovsky was instrumental in preparing the written report submitted to the judges.