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Come join us for the College of Business (CoB) Classic Open Benefit Golf Tournament on Friday, September 21 at Riverside Country Club, the day before the Montana State University Homecoming football game against Northern Colorado. The four-member, scramble format tournament is open to all players and will begin with a 12:30 p.m. shotgun start.

The profits from this tournament will be used to fund student enhancement programs and scholarships. At the last scholarship banquet, April 2012, two “Friends of the Classic Open Benefit Golf Tournament” scholarships were awarded to business students Dakun Hu and Joseph Fauth.

Participants may sign up as single players or a team of four. The tournament entry fee is $125 per golfer, which includes lunch, an entry prize, two mulligans, a Hole-in-One competition, the awards ceremony with tasty hors d’oeuvres, an auction and great team and individual prizes.

Continuing the tournament tradition, players on the team with the best gross score will have their names etched in the prestigious traveling crystal trophy and receive the honor of displaying the trophy at their place of business throughout the year. Last year’s winning team, sponsored by Mountain West Bank, was comprised of Graver Johnson, Paul Pahut, Willie Schlaebitz and Neil Thomas.

The tournament has been very successful in past years, and the CoB is excited about the positive feedback and interest received for this year’s tournament. The success is due largely to the generosity of the sponsors, prize donations and the enthusiasm and spirit of the golfers.

For those who wish to make a contribution to the tournament, great sponsorship options are available. These contributions give participating businesses strong visibility at the event, as well as ensure the golf tournament’s success.

To reserve a spot in the tournament, for sponsorship options or more information on the CoB Classic Open Benefit Golf Tournament, contact Audrey Lee at (406) 994-7026 or e-mail her at at audrey.lee@montana.edu.

This event can also be found on the MSU Events Calendar: http://calendar.msu.montana.edu/events/7021.

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Mike Reilly, professor emeritus in marketing, and Craig Ehlert, adjunct instructor in management at Montana State University’s College of Business (CoB), will be speaking at the Compete Smart Manufacturing Conference in Missoula at the Hilton Garden Inn, hosted by the Montana Manufacturing Extension Center on Thursday, October 11.

Reilly, recently retired after teaching marketing for the CoB, will be the featured keynote for the conference. He will present, “Ready for Advances in [Marketing] Payload Delivery Technology? How the Cruise Missile in Marketing Outperforms Saturation Bombing,”from 12:00-1:45 p.m. His presentation will focus on marketing’s enduring principles, combined with targeted information age tools, and how they reach “Homo Digitus”—the digital man.

Ehlert, who is also the director of the Family Business Program, will present “Winning Montana Family Business” at 4:10-5:40 p.m. Ehlert will examine and discuss the characteristics that have skyrocketed manufacturing success for Family Business Program award winners across the state and how these businesses stack up to national excellence standards, as well as discuss how these characteristics compare to national excellence standards. Participants will learn about helpful resources for their businesses.

The Montana Manufacturing Extension Center is a statewide manufacturing outreach and assistance center, staffed by full-time professionals with degrees in engineering and extensive experience in manufacturing and business in a variety of industries.

For more information about Montana Manufacturing Extension Center and the Compete Smart conference, please visit www.mtmanufacturingcenter.com.

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