Mr. Clean Goes Green

USING CHEMISTR y TO CREATE ALL -n A tur AL HOUSEHOLD CLEANING PRODUCTS

David Schurer 79B was going to be a rock star. He had no plans to change the household cleaning product industry.

After graduating from Goizueta Business School, Schurer decided to use his business background to help launch his music career. For the next four years, he toured the Southeast with a band.

But with no luck getting a record deal, Schurer immersed himself in his father’s pharmaceutical business. “My father asked me to come to Puerto Rico to help him with new technology,” he says. “I spent almost five years developing the product and trying to get funding. I worked with every major pharmaceutical company.” transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and securities with the law firm of Suffield, Lowman, and Wilson. hugh t rice iii 06C and Lee Ann Wooten of Myrtle Beach, S.C., were married Oct. 24, 2009. Rice, who received a JD from the University of South Carolina School of Law, served as a law clerk for the South Carolina Senate Judiciary Committee. safiya Jetha 07oX 09C See Jetha 07OX nicholas e missler 07oX 09C See Missler 07OX

When Schurer returned to Atlanta, he started Sorbent Technologies, focusing on chromatography and life science. He and his business partner, Marc Perla, met a chemist who was working with enzymes and described how they break down naturally. They realized this process could be used in cleaning products.

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tina e mayland 86emBA of Johns Island, S.C., is an exhibiting artist in downtown Charleston.

miriam r. Albert 87mBA 87L and James A. Lyman of Long Beach, N.y., were married Sept. 12, 2009. Albert is a professor of contracts and corporate law at Hofstra Law School.

Brian D. Bode 96mBA of Stamford, Conn., is senior vice president of Bell Partners.

Jan hice 96mBA of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is the author of her first book, Soul Work: Excerpts from My Journey gregory m hobby 97BBA of Roswell is a Realtor with Harry Norman Realtors.

mara Peskin Lapp 97BBA and Jeffrey A. Lapp of Atlanta announce the birth of a daughter, Chloe Madison, on Feb. 3, 2009.

Connie Petersen Bateson 99BBA and Christian Bateson of New york City announce the birth of a son, Nicholas Henry, on April 6, 2009.

In 2007, they founded EcoDiscoveries, which now offers eight green cleaning products—three enzyme based and five plant based—including kitchen, bath, and glass cleaners. They use all-natural substances to eliminate dirt and grime without toxic chemicals, fragrances, or dyes, Schurer says.

“We were a green company before green was really green,” he says. “Other companies consider themselves green because they do things like recycle, versus the actual formulation of their products having these benefits.” micaela Chapellin 99mBA and kevin m warde 99mBA of Atlanta were married July 12, 2008. shane D. marquart 99BBA See Marquart 00C kevin m warde 99mBA See Chapellin 99MBA heith D. rodman 00mBA 00L See J. Rodman 99L renita Jones Anderson 02emBA and Robert D. Anderson of Decatur announce the birth of a daughter, Chloe Jane, on Aug. 29, 2009. theodore A. Postula 04BBA of Irving, Texas, who received a master of finance degree in May 2009 from Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business where he was a distinguished MBA scholar and a student representative to the Board of Trustees, is a financial analyst with the Treasurer’s Group of Exxon Mobil Corporation of Dallas. robert J. Pelletier 07emBA and Carissa Pelletier of Lincolnton, N.C., announce the birth of a son, Dominic Julian, on March 28, 2009. Pelletier is general manager of RSI Home Products of Anaheim, Calif.

EcoDiscoveries has received an award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Safer Detergents Stewardship Initiative, which recognizes environmental leaders who voluntarily commit to the use of safer surfactants. Its products are biodegradable and are sold in concentrated form and refillable plastic bottles, which lessens waste and decreases their carbon footprint.

Alan e ferguson sr. 99evmBA of Atlanta, who received an MS in real estate, is a doctoral student in real estate at Georgia State University. While a graduate student, Ferguson was a team member in the 2009 NAIOP Challenge and the 2008 Global Diversity Summit in Commercial Real Estate Challenge.

Lindsay Jandal Postula 03BBA of Irving, Texas, who received a JD from Southern Methodist University in 2006, is an attorney with a Dallas law firm.

Jason e wynn 04mBA 04L of Washington, D.C., is assistant counsel for McCormick and Company in Sparks, Md.

Carrie e. Davis 07mBA and Eric Brune of Atlanta were married Sept. 13, 2008.

Conventional wisdom holds that green cleaning products don’t work as well as other, stronger solutions. But Schurer says his company’s products, which promise that “safe has an effective side,” are carried in more than 1,200 health food stores nationwide, where they face the ultimate consumer challenge: being both green and able to clean.—Mallory Goldberg 10C

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melvin L. Butterworth Jr. 53D and Frances Wallace Butterworth of Gainesville celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary on Aug. 20, 2009.

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Donna D’Arminio nicely 70g 75g 87g of Nashville, director of the Nashville Public Library, was inducted into the yWCA Academy for Women of Achievement in October 2009 by the yWCA of Nashville and Middle Tennessee and First Tennessee.

w. Daniel hale 74g of Deland, Fla., professor of psychology and director of the Community Health Initiative at Stetson University and adjunct associate professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, is coauthor of the book Building Healthy Communities through Medical-Religious Partnerships elizabeth s. D. engelhardt 97g 99PhD of Austin, Texas, is the coauthor of the book Republic of Barbecue— Stories beyond the Brisket mary Linhard garner 98PhD of Smyrna, an associate math professor at Kennesaw State University, received the university’s top faculty award from the Kennesaw State University Foundation in August 2009. elizabeth s. D. engelhardt 97g 99PhD See Engelhardt 97G

Donna D’Arminio nicely 70g 75g 87g See Nicely 70G elliott k. gozansky 89oX 91C 91g See Gozansky 89OX raina r wood 96g and Michael P. Rathke of New Castle, Ind., were married Sept. 19, 2009. Wood is an organist.

Patricia m. Cooper 00PhD of New york City, an assistant professor at New york University, is the author of the book The Classrooms All Young Children Need: Lessons in Teaching from Vivian Paley

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Clark w furlow 77L of St. Petersburg, Fla., professor of law at Stetson University College of Law and dean of Stetson’s Tampa Law Center, recently received tenure.

Charles t. Autry 81L of Statham, a partner of the law firm of Autry, Horton, and Cole who has focused his thirty-year career on representing cooperatives with an emphasis on electric cooperatives, is coauthor of the book The Law of Cooperatives

James A. Durham 83L of Dedham, Mass., who commutes between Boston and Richmond, is chief marketing and business development officer for the law firm of McGuire Woods. Durham is author of the book The Essential Little Book of Great Lawyering miriam r. Albert 87mBA 87L See Albert 87MBA tara haluch Acton 99L and David Acton of Broomfield, Colo., announce the birth of a son, Kevin John, on May 5, 2009. Acton is the claims manager for Qwest Corporation. michael r. Bergman 03L of Cincinnati, Ohio, won first place in the Cincinnati Innovates Competition sponsored by CincyTech, which invests in high-tech startup firms in Southwest Ohio. Bergman won in the commercialization category for a Facebook application, Numbskull 2.0, which helps students with test preparation.

Alan f rothschild Jr. 91L of Columbus, a partner of the law firm Hatcher Stubbs, is chair elect of the American Bar Association’s Section of Real Property, Trust, and Estate Law. Rothschild, who will become the section chair in 2010, will be the second chair from Georgia in eighty-five years.

Jennifer Cunha rodman 99L and heith D. rodman 00mBA 00L of Roswell announce the birth of a daughter, Emory Kathleen, on Dec. 30, 2008.

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Ann t. Parker 06L and robert J. mckeehan 06L of Washington, D.C., were married Sept. 19, 2009. Parker is an associate specializing in corporate law at the Washington law firm of Arnold and Porter, and McKeehan is an associate specializing in environmental law at the Washington law firm of Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale, and Dorr.

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