Contributed by WMU
*Pictured from left: Clif Berg, Chair of the Foundation for FSP, WMU’s Joshua Kallen and Alison Huey, winners of the national financial services competition.
KALAMAZOO (MICH.)–Two Western Michigan University business students took first place in a recent financial service industry competition, topping finalist teams from Texas Tech and William Paterson universities and each earning a $3,000 scholarship.
Team members Alison Huey, an accountancy major from Canton, Mich., and Joshua Kallen, an advertising and promotion major from Muskegon, Mich., won first place in the first Financial Services National Industry Issues Competition held in late January in Phoenix.
The competition, sponsored . . .
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Physicians include:
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