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Club Spotlight:
THE WHARTON CLUB OF ATLANTA: GET INTO THE MIX
To many people, Atlanta conjures up literary images of a provincial "Old South" of Scarlet O'Hara and
Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind or Charlie Croker in Tom Wolfe's more recent work, A Man in Full.
The reality is that the explosive growth that the city has experienced over the past 10 years has
created a much more diverse, dynamic, forward-looking and sophisticated
cultural mix. Among those leading the charge is Penn alumna and Philadelphia native Shirley Franklin,
the city's mayor, who has helped make Atlanta one of the leading cities for the headquarters of Fortune 500 companies.
The Wharton Club of Atlanta, led by Bruce Hauptfuhrer, WG'94, Michael Hronchek, WG'98, and other Wharton alumni,
continues to project a very strong presence in the local
community. Over the past several years, many of Wharton's leading lights, including Dean Patrick Harker, Jeremy Siegel,
Richard Shell, Michael Useem, Jerry Wind and Peter Linneman have kept
local alumni apprised of their thought leadership with visits to Atlanta.
The centerpiece of the Club's current programming is the Wharton-Kellogg-INSEAD Breakfast Speaker Series. This monthly program,
started by dual Penn/Wharton degree holder, Cameron Adair, C'69, WG'70, features distinguished and dynamic speakers from the business,
academic and civic arenas. Managing through partnerships has been a central facet for the club over the past decade. In the mid 1990s,
Bruce Hauptfuhrer was instrumental in the formation of the Atlanta Business School Alliance, which more formally pooled programming opportunities
for alumni of leading business schools. To ensure that Wharton alums had a channel for contributing their business skills to local non-profits, Andrew Feiler, W'84,
created Community Consulting Teams, in which alumni from a broad range of business schools now participate.
These opportunities, combined with additional ones from TeamIvy—a consortium of Ivy League alumni clubs—present local alumni with a very rich and
expansive mix of educational, networking, social, cultural and athletic opportunities
with Wharton alumni and the broader community.
If you plan to be in Atlanta,
be sure to visit Wharton's online club directory at www.wharton.upenn.edu/alumni/clubs/ and click
on The Wharton Club of Atlanta link to find out about upcoming events.
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