Business leaders and University alumni in the Midlands and the Upstate will have opportunities to meet new Moore School of Business Dean Hildy Teegen this fall.

A reception in Columbia for Teegen will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 9 on the Moore School's patio on College Street. Teegen will meet with Upstate alumni and business leaders from 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 11 at the Poinsett Club on East Washington Street in Greenville.

Both events are free, but responses are required. To RSVP, call Sara Coffman at 7-2910, or send an e-mail reply to business.relations@moore.sc.edu.

Darla D. Moore, for whom the business school is named, Michael R. Brenan, Harris E. DeLoach Jr., and James H. Hodges are hosts for the reception in Columbia. Anthony A. Callander, Roger W. Chastain, Paul S. Goldsmith, Phillip R. Hughes, and Minor M. Shaw are hosts of the Greenville reception.

Teegen, who began her tenure as dean Sept. 15, will host similar "meet-the-dean" receptions this fall in Charleston and Charlotte, as well as in Atlanta, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Jacksonville, Fla.

Before being named dean of the Moore School, Teegen was director of the Center for International Business Education and Research and professor of international business and international affairs at George Washington University, where she had taught since 1996, in Washington, D.C. She also has taught at the College of William and Mary, the University of Texas at Austin, the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico in Mexico City, and the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey.

Teegen earned her bachelor's degree in Latin American studies and international business, as well as her doctorate in international business with a sub-specialty in marketing strategy and economic development, from the University of Texas at Austin. She succeeds Joel Smith, who served as dean of the Moore School since 2000.

For more information on the receptions for Teegen, go to the Moore School's Web site mooreschool.sc.edu and click on "Events."

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