
She won over Athens’ soap dishes. Now she’s coming for its mailboxes.
The Terry College of Business students know the famous name. In the 1960s, John W. “Jack” Rooker (BBA ’60) entered working life with his father — Terry alum William A. Rooker Sr. (BSC ’33) — at Southern Bonded Warehouse, a third-party logistics company that stored and shipped inventory for businesses in fast-growing Atlanta. In a few years, Jack evolved the family interests, launching an industrial real estate development company.