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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The Board of Directors of Beta Alpha Psi consists of twelve individuals from education, accounting firms and industry. Six members of the Board are currently from education and include the Director of Administration and Publications, the Director of Chapter Activities, the Director of National and International Programs (three-year terms), two Regional Directors (one-year terms), and a college of business Dean (two-year term). The Chapters elect a President-Elect who serves a one year term, succeeds to the Presidency in the following year, and serves a final half year on the Board as Past President. The other three members of the Board of Directors come from the accounting profession. The Chairman of the Advisory Forum is a member of the Board of Directors for a two-year term. Two alumni representatives are also members of the Board, one elected each year for a two-year term. The Chairman of the Advisory Forum is a person with significant responsibility in his or her position in industry, public accounting or government who brings a business perspective to the Board. The alumni representatives are recent graduates of Beta Alpha Psi chapters who bring a student perspective to the Board.The Board of Directors typically meets three times a year to plan overall fraternity activities and provide general guidance for chapters to follow. The National Office of the fraternity is available for consultation on day-to-day chapter operations.
Sam Vitkoski (1997-1999)
Incoming President Sam Vitkoski has served on the Advisory Forum since 1990. Mr. Vitkoski is National Director of Recruiting for BDO Seidman, LLP, where he is responsible for managing the firm’s experienced hire and entry level college recruitment program. Sam’s work on developing and conducting university and college relations programs, and training firm personnel on effective interviewing and counseling techniques. Prior to joining BDO Seidman, LLP in 1987, he served as Director of Professional Recruitment for KMG Main Hurdman, and as an auditor with Price Waterhouse, LLP in Atlanta. A graduate of Duquesne University with a B.S. degree in business administration, Mr. Vitkoski holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. As a CPA, he is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the California Society of CPAs. He currently is a member of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Accounting Advisory Board, the University of Texas at Austin Department of Accounting Advisory Council and the Duquesne University Accounting Advisory Board. Previously, he served as the Chair of the Beta Alpha Psi National Advisory Forum and the AICPAs’ Women and Family Issues Executive Committee and the California Society of CPAs’ Committee on Accounting Education. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the American Accounting Association’s Administrators of Accounting Programs Group and the California Society’s Committee on Human Resources. Mr. Vitkoski is an honorary member of the University of Southern California’s Theta Epsilon Chapter. He resides in Chicago and San Francisco.
Bernard J. Milano (1998-2000)
President-elect Bernard J. Milano is Partner in Charge of University Relations, Diversity, and Alumni Programs for KPMG and Trustee and Executive Director of the KPMG Foundation. Mr. Milano previously served on the Beta Alpha Psi Advisory Forum and was chairman of the Forum and a member of the Beta Alpha Psi Board of Directors from 1989-1991. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), The Episcopal Church Foundation, Leadership Education and Development of Program in Business, Inc. (LEAD), Administrators of Accounting Programs Group, and the Federation of Schools of Accountancy. He is a member of the Corporate Advisory Board for the Golden Key National Honor Society (former chairman) and the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management. He is on the Dean's Advisory Board at James Madison University (former chairman), Temple University, North Carolina A&T (chairman), and Howard University. He serves on the President’s Board of Govenors at Ramapo College, a member of the Association of Corporate Recruiting Executives (ACRE) and the Professional Relations Committee of the American Accounting Association. Mr. Milano earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting from Temple University and is a Certified Public Accountant. He has been honored with several awards including the Students in Free Enterprise Champion Award (1998), an Honorary Doctorate in Humanities from North Carolina A&T State University (1998), the Practitioner Service Award from the Federation of Schools of Accounting (1996 and 1990), the Beta Alpha Psi National Accountant of the Year (1995), the President’s Award from Golden Key National Honor Society (1993), and Outstanding Alumnus of the Business School of Temple University (1992).
Mark Kiel
North Carolina A&T
State University Greensboro, North Carolina
Director of Administration and Publications
T. Sterling Wetzel
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, Oklahoma
Director of National and International Programs
Lela "Kitty" Pumphrey
Idaho State University
Pocatello, Idaho
Director of Chapter Activities
Diane Pattison
University of San Diego
San Diego, California
Regional Director Area 4
Keith Smith
George Washington University
Washington, D. C.
Regional Director Area 1
Carol Haas
Union Pacific Corporation
Omaha, Nebraska
Chair, Advisory Forum
Allan Bailey
San Diego State University
San Diego, California
Dean
Wade Kent Watkins
Utah State Auditor’s Office
Weber State University Graduate
Salt Lake City, Utah
Alumni Representative
Lisa Bidwell
Deloitte & Touche, LLP
Montana State University Graduate
Portland, Oregon
Alumni RepresentativeINCOMING BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Robert (Bobby) Boecker
Robert (Bobby) Boecker recently graduated from the University of Houston - Clear Lake in May of 1998 with my Masters of Science in Accounting. While obtaining this degree, he worked in the auditing department for The Williams Companies, Inc., a gas pipeline corporation. He will begin his auditing career with Arthur Andersen LLP in Houston this September.Bobby received a Bachelors of Science in Healthcare Administration from the University of Houston - Clear Lake in December of 1995. While obtaining his undergraduate degree he worked for a large group of anesthesiologist helping with accounting, billing, and information system implementation problems in the Texas Medical Center. From this work experience, he understood the need for an accounting background. His involvement with Beta Alpha Psi came as he was working on his graduate degree in accounting. He wanted to get involved with an organization that promoted accounting as exciting and fulfilling, not just bean counting. Through his involvement with Beta Alpha Psi the amount of people, choices, and exciting career paths for accountants proved amazing and better than he could have ever imagined.
Bobby is very excited to be the next Alumni Representative, and looks forward to meeting the students, faculty, and accounting professionals involved with Beta Alpha Psi. His hope is that his excitement about a career in accounting will encourage the current members of Beta Alpha Psi to spread the word about the endless possibilities in accounting.
Robert G. May, Ph.D.
DeanCollege and Graduate School of Business
The University of Texas at AustinJune 1, 1997
Bob May is the KPMG Centennial Professor of Accounting at the University of Texas at Austin and Dean of the College of Graduate School of Business. He received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1970 and joined the UT accounting faculty in June 1979, after nine years at the University of Washington.
Bob has published articles in accounting journal and was co-winner of the 1976 AICPA Notable Contribution to the Accounting Literature Award. He is co-author of six textbooks and co-developer of several education software products.
Bob was taught a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses and received teaching awards from students at the University of Washington and The University of Texas. He received the CBA Foundation Advisory Council Teaching Innovation Award in 198 and was co-recipient of the American Accounting Association Innovation in Accounting Education Award in 1991 and 1993. Just recently he received the coveted Eyes of Texas Award given to ten members of the University community each year by a campus-wide anonymous student organization.
Bob held administrative positions at the University of Washington and was appointed Chairman of the University of Texas Department of Accounting from 1980 to 1984 and from 1988 to 1992. He was appointed Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in 1992, Interim Dean in 1995 and Dean in 1996. He has held national elective offices in the American Accounting Association and has been elected to a three year term on the Board of Directors of the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (the accreditation agency for business and accounting programs). He is listed in Who's Who In America.
Donna Street
Incoming Director of Administration Donna Street previously served on the National Council as Regional Director for the Atlantic Coast Region from 1992 -1995. She served as the Faculty Advisor for the Eta Delta Chapter from 1988-1992 and from 1995-1997, and in 1992 she received an Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award. Dr. Street is Professor of Accounting and KPMG Peat Marwick Faculty Fellow at James Madison University, where she also serves as Director of the Center for Research in Accounting Education. Currently, she serves on the Executive Committee of the International Association for Accounting Education and Research and is chairing committees for the International Section of the American Accounting Association and the Academy of Accounting Historians. Dr. Street is an associate editor for Accounting Education: An International Journal and serves on several other editorial boards including Journal of International Accounting, Auditing, and Taxation and the Accounting Historians Journal. She has published several papers on topics including international accounting, financial reporting, and accounting education.<% server.execute "/includes/cpyright.INC" %>
