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ALUMNI BRIEFS AND CLASS NOTES Congratulations to the 2020 Alumni Awardees from Bloch The Bloch School is proud to have these alumni honored for their contributions in their careers and communities. Spotlight Award: Mark McHenry (M.P.A. ’89), retired director of the Kansas City, Missouri, Parks and Recreation Department Bloch Alumni Achievement Award Recipient: Heather Humphrey (EMBA ’11), Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Evergy
CALL FOR CLASS NOTES Hello, Bloch alumni! If you want to be featured in future Bloch magazines and other material, send us the following: 1. Your name 2. Graduation year 3. Current location 4. What you are doing 5. Any other notes. Send your notes to: Jana Boschert Director of External Relations UMKC Bloch School of Management at boschertj@umkc.edu.
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Matt Beem (M.P.A. ’95, Ph.D. ’18) was named chairman and CEO of Hartsook, and chairman of Hartsook’s ESOP Trust in 2019. Beem chairs the advisory board of the Institute for Sustainable Philanthropy (Plymouth, United Kingdom) and is a senior fellow of the UMKC Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership. Paula Petersen (EMBA ’07), is the Executive Vice President and Director of Strategy, Marketing and Finance at Commerce Bank. Her banking experience encompasses 35 years, the last 29 at Commerce Bank. She was recently named by the Kansas City Business Journal as a 2018 Woman Who Means Business. Petersen serves on the Bloch School Advisory Council and the Bloch Executive Education Advisory Board. Mike Perry (B.B.A. ’89), was named president and CEO of Hallmark company in 2019. His appointment is only the second time in the company’s history that it will be led by someone not part of the founding Hall family. Perry has been with Hallmark for 30 years, having previously served as the president of Hallmark Greetings and the president and CEO of Crayola, part of Hallmark’s portfolio of businesses.
Felicity Pino (M.P.A. ’14), was promoted as Director of Continuous Improvement at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City in December 2019. She supervises the Quality Improvement and Performance Improvement departments. Pino also is an adjunct assistant professor at the Bloch School and an assistant professor at the UMKC School of Medicine. Before Children’s Mercy, she was a NASA astronaut instructor.
