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Jeremy O’Mard, a 2013 Penn State Behrend graduate, will be honored as one of 16 Penn State Alumni Achievement Award recipients in a virtual ceremony on April 13. The 7 p.m. program is open to the public, but registration is required.
The Alumni Achievement Award recognizes alumni 35 years of age and younger for their extraordinary professional accomplishments. About 100 alumni – eight of them graduates from Penn State Behrend – have been honored since the award was established in 2005.
As a managing consultant and systems engineer with IBM, O’Mard is responsible for the installation, maintenance and security of the IBM Commissary Advance Resale Transaction System hardware/software solution, which is used at all Department of Defense Commissaries around the world.
Miss. State Guard to welcome new commander in April Col. John B. Carter will assume command of the Mississippi State Guard in late April. (Source: Mississippi State Guard) By WDAM Staff | March 16, 2021 at 9:32 AM CDT - Updated March 16 at 10:08 AM
JACKSON, Miss. (WDAM) – Maj. Gen. Janson D. Boyles, Mississippi’s adjutant general, announced that Col. John B. Carter is to become the Mississippi State Guard’s new commander.
Carter is scheduled to assume command from Brig. Gen. Douglas M. Hayhurst, who has been the commander of the State Guard since August 2016.
An official ceremony will take place at Camp Shelby Joint Training Center on April 24.