Photography by Mary Daley & Terry Wyatt
One of the most popular Owen traditions is Closing Bell, an all-school social gathering held every Thursday evening
of the school year, hosted by various campus organizations, such as the Armed Forces Club, Owen Venture and Entrepreneurship Club, Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Board, and Owen Out & Allied. These often-themed events give the entire Owen community a chance to congregate, share a meal, dress up (or down), and sometimes get jiggy with it. Here we share some scenes from a few of these events in 2019.
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Grease-themed
Closing Bell, hosted by the Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Board
and Owen Out & Allied, included a costume contest, 1950s music and ice cream floats.
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Miller Tisson, MBA’20 (left), and Thomas Cleary, MBA’20 (center), chat with friends
at the Grease-themed Closing Bell last September.
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Ben Burkeen, MBA’20; Brittany Hunter, MBA’20;
Teddy Dinker, MBA’20, and others
are “Greased Lightning” on the floor at the Grease-themed Closing Bell.
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- At the International Business Closing Bell, Japanese MBA students Tomoki Ide (left) and Mikihiko Ibe introduce themselves before performing a traditional Japanese party comedic act called nininbaori, where two people wear the same large coat and pretend to be one person.
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- Jeff Philbin, MBA’20, talks with classmates at the Armed Forces Closing Bell last November. Philbin earned his Owen MBA in operations management specialization and is now enrolled at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
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Associate Professor of Operations Management
Mumin Kurtulus chats with guests
at the OVEC Opening Bell.
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At the 2019 OVEC Closing Bell, a representative from Bang Candy shows off the
Nashville confectioner’s products.
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At the 2019 OVEC Closing Bell, alumna Taneisha Gordon, MBA’18, discusses her
Atlanta woodworking design business, Studio Sukhino, with MBA student Rabo Garba.
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The International Business Closing Bell, hosted by various globally focused organizations
during Owen’s annual Cosmopolitan Week last November, featured food, drinks and cultural performances from around the world. Here the Vanderbilt Lakshya Bollywood dance team entertains.
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- The International Business Closing Bell, hosted by various globally focused organizations during Owen’s annual Cosmopolitan Week last November, featured food, drinks and cultural performances from around the world. Here MBA student Joshua Eniola from Nigeria participates in a cook-off.