Vol. 18, No. 10	Nov. 5, 1998

New Family Business Center to sponsor workshop Jan. 27

A UD Family Business Center, designed to provide seminars, programs and services to family businesses, will open in January.

"The center will offer programs and support to Delaware's many family businesses," said director James O'Neill, who also is director of the UD Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship.

"With our many resources, we can play an integral part in sustaining the vitality of family business for future generations," Dean Dana Johnson, business and economics, said.

The center's first event will be a daylong workshop for family business, to be held Wednesday, Jan. 27, in Arsht Hall on the Wilmington campus. Topics will include challenges to the family business continuity, factors to lasting family and business success and leadership characteristics.

Workshop fee is $150, and the registration deadline is Jan. 20

Members of the center's board of directors include Henri Bertuch of Viatech Publishing Solutions; John E. Burris of Burris Foods; Charles Copeland of Associates Graphics; Steven Director and Daniel McCollom of Morris, Hitchens & Williams; E. Andrew DiSabatino, Jr. of EdiS Co.; Linda Drake of TCIM Services; Linda Kellogg of Boyd's Flowers; Alan Levin of Happy Harry's; William Major of Wilmington Trust Co.; Daniel Anthony Passerini of Mass Mutual/Flanagan Financial Group; Dorothy Peoples of R.C. Peoples; Howard Simon of Simon, Master & Sidlow; Mark Stellini of Info Systems; Chris Tigani of NKS Distributors; Clinton Tymes of the Small Business Development Center at UD; and Frank Ursomarso of Union Park.

For information, call 831-2559.