{"73966":{"#nid":"73966","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman to Address Graduates","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESecretary of Energy Samuel Bodman will deliver the address at the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s 221st commencement ceremony at 9 a.m. on Saturday, May 7, 2005 at the Georgia Dome. The ceremony is expected to feature 2,400 graduates. The spring ceremony was moved from its traditional location of the Alexander Memorial Coliseum to the Georgia Dome to accommodate the increasing number of graduates.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBodman became the nations\u0027s eleventh secretary of energy on February 1.  He has served in the Bush administration since 2001 when he joined the Department of Commerce to serve as deputy secretary. In 2004, he moved to the Department of the Treasury where he again held the position of deputy secretary. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBefore entering public service, Bodman worked in the private sector for 30 years as a financier and executive. In 1987, he joined the Cabot Corporation, a Boston-based Fortune 300 company, where he served as chairman, CEO and a director. Prior to that he served as president and chief operating officer of Fidelity Investments and a director of the Fidelity Group of Mutual Funds.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBodman received his bachelor\u0027s degree in chemical engineering from Cornell University in 1961 and his science doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965. For the next six years he served as an associate professor of chemical engineering at M.I.T. and began his work in the financial sector as technical director of the American Research and Development Corporation, a pioneer venture capital firm. He and his colleagues provided financial and managerial support to scores of new business enterprises located throughout the United States.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBodman is former director of MIT\u0027s School of Engineering Practice and a former member of the MIT Commission on Education. He also served as a member of the Executive and Investment Committees at MIT, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Trustee of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the New England Aquarium.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA Family Affair\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis spring, four graduating students will be sharing the stage with family members. Mona Kashlan will receive her bachelor\u0027s in Management while her daughter Farah Kashlan will receive her master\u0027s in Public Policy. In addition, sisters Rosie and Gina Kwok will both receive their Master\u0027s of Business Administration (MBA).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt\u0027s fair to say the Kashlans are a die hard Georgia Tech family. Next year, there will be three Kashlans getting their diplomas at Tech. Mona Kashlan\u0027s daughter, Nadine, will graduate from the College of Architecture, while nephews Samy and Osama will get their bachelor\u0027s degrees in biomedical engineering and chemical engineering, respectively. Her son, Kareem, also has his eyes on becoming a yellow jacket, but he\u0027ll have to wait a few years. He\u0027s still a high school freshman. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022When I came here in 1986, I heard so many things about the school because my brother-in-law was in school at Georgia Tech,\u0022 said Mona Kashlan. \u0022I fell in love with the school and decided this is where I want to be.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBeing a non-traditional student at Tech was tough, but worth it, she said. \u0022After waiting all these years to get my degree, I didn\u0027t want just any degree. I wanted a Georgia Tech degree.\u0022 She\u0027s graduating with highest honors, with an expected grade point average of 3.83.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFollowing graduation, she has her sights on a position in marketing or strategic management at a large international corporation. Daughter, Farah, is looking at Ph.D. programs and plans to work in public policy as a consultant. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough her husband didn\u0027t go to Tech, Mona Kashlan said there\u0027s no one more proud of his Georgia Tech family. \u0022If he wanted to put bumper stickers on his car, his would have to say \u0027My wife, my daughters, my money and my heart go to Georgia Tech\u0027,\u0022 she said. \u0022I would like to thank him, because if it wasn\u0027t for him, I wouldn\u0027t be here. It took a lot of adjustment.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERosie and Gina Kwok didn\u0027t plan on graduating together, but it worked out that way. Rosie Kwok returned to her alma mater in 2002 to pursue her MBA but took an internship the next year at Disney World. Her sister, Gina, started Tech in 2003. By the time she returned from her internship, the sisters were scheduled to finish their degrees at the same time. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022When I left for a year and came back, I didn\u0027t know anybody else in the program because everyone I knew had already graduated. It was nice to come back and have a friendly face here with me,\u0022 said Rosie Kwok.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022And when I started, she was gone,\u0022 said Gina Kwok. \u0022It was nice because I already knew a lot of her friends. They helped me get through my first year.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERosie Kwok was working for AMB IT, a Smyrna-based company that makes timing equipment for the racing industry, when she decided to pursue her MBA. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It\u0027s a small company and a lot of the things there I learned on my own, so I really wanted to come back to school to see how it\u0027s done,\u0022 she said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGina Kwok was also working in the industry when she decided to make the jump to Tech. \u0022I worked for a consulate here in Atlanta and I saw how much international business is conducted here,\u0022 she said. \u0022I knew that the MBA program at Tech is very well known in the international business community so I figured this would be a good way for me to build contacts.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWanting to take advantage of Tech\u0027s international offerings, she spent a semester in South Korea last year at her parents\u0027 alma mater, Seoul National University. She also took a class in Singapore during spring break.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERosie Kwok plans on returning to AMB IT after graduation, while her sister is still looking for something in the marketing or human resources fields. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELike the Kashlan\u0027s the Kwok sisters aren\u0027t the only ones in their family to have yellow jacket fever. Their brother Marcus graduated from Tech in December with a double major in computer engineering and mathematics. 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