ATLANTA, July 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Several leadership appointments were announced today in Southern Company's operations organization and one in its financial organization. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080801/SOCOLOGO ) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080801/SOCOLOGO ) In the finance organization: Xia Liu was named vice president of finance for the company's Southern Company Services subsidiary and assistant treasurer of Southern Company.In operations, which includes generation, transmission, wholesale energy sales and Southern Power -- the company's competitive generation subsidiary -- leadership positions named include: Michael L.

By Joseph Galante, The Philadelphia Inquirer Jun. 22--Thomas S. Robertson, who was named dean of the Wharton School yesterday, promised to increase its global footprint and devote half his time to fund-raising. The appointment was announced by the University of Pennsylvania.

By Rasmussen, Patty Don't tell Larry Benveniste, dean of Emory University's Goizueta School of Business, that business school has to be stuffy. On a sunny day in September, just days after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast region, Goizueta students set up a Katrina relief dunk tank.