President Amy Novak, EdD, today announced the naming of the St. 竞技宝app下载安装 商学院 in honor of steadfast alumna whose appreciation for her St. 竞技宝app下载安装的教育很深.
的 帕特丽夏VanBruwaene商学院 honors the legacy of an East Moline, Illinois, native who built a successful career with Deere & 公司. As well as an impressive record of community leadership, after earning her 工商管理文学士 她在1974年获得了学士学位 H.L. 麦克劳克林工商管理硕士 1984年获学位.
帕特里夏·范布鲁瓦恩于11月11日去世. 2, 2021, 20 years after retiring as Manager of Pensions and Benefits for Deere & 公司.
帕特丽夏VanBruwaene
通过她的遗产, she contributed the largest gift in University history. She wanted to give back to the people who helped her achieve her goals and education.
通过她的遗产, she contributed the largest gift in University history, a multimillion donation that will bolster scholarship funding that makes SAU's faithful, student-focused classroom and campus experience accessible to students across the economic and learning spectrum.
的 University is not releasing the donation figure at this time.
"Pat was very appreciative of her experience at St. 竞技宝app下载安装," trust attorney Robert Noe said of VanBruwaene. "She felt that education put her on a path to what she accomplished at Deere."
VanBruwaene began her career at a time when few women were in leadership roles for large multinational corporations.
"For women currently in leadership roles such as mine, the 帕特丽夏VanBruwaenes of the mid-to-late 20th Century were pacesetters," Dr. Novak said in a ceremony held in the expanded and renovated McMullen大厅, which was dedicated a year ago as the official home to the 商学院.
"I hope this speaks to current and future generations of business leaders and tells them St. 竞技宝app下载安装 will provide the knowledge and skills they will need to succeed, 在快速变化的环境中适应和成长, 数字工作,诺瓦克说. “他们会这么做的, 值得庆幸的是, in a world where corporations recognize the value of a diverse and inclusive workforce, an experience that Patricia was at the forefront of creating when she started her career in the early 1970s."
St. 竞技宝app下载安装名誉总裁爱德华·罗加尔斯基, 博士学位, '08 (Hon) was dean of students when VanBruwaene enrolled at St. 竞技宝app下载安装 in 1970, just a year after the school officially became a co-educational institution. He remembered her as a strong and confident student and later as an engaged and committee alumna.
"Pat had an ability to articulate her ideas in a compelling way that convinced others of her perspective,他说. 她聪明、口齿伶俐、泰然自若. She fit that Deere persona in terms of all those qualities you might expect in a Deere executive."
VanBruwaene later was among many Deere executives who enhanced their credentials and leadership viability when St. 竞技宝app下载安装 launched the MBA program in 1977 as the school's initial graduate studies offering.
的 MBA program didn't merely include women who had an eye on corporate leadership. 它追着他们.
“我们特意招募女性,乔·麦卡弗里说, 博士学位, the program's first director and a veteran COB professor who retired in 2018 after 60 years in higher education. “当时, we had a lot of talented vice presidents from Deere in the program and they helped us recruit women candidates. 她显然是一个杰出的人."
VanBruwaene was a leader in the community as well as in the workforce. In 1990, she became the first female president of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce and worked with government leaders and legislators to ensure the completion of John Deere Road.
She also was a founding member of what is now the Quad Cities Travel & 游客局, earned the 1994 Rotary Club Golden Book of Good Deeds for community service, and was a longtime volunteer for the John Deere Classic. 她是圣公会的前任主席. 竞技宝app下载安装校友执行委员会和圣. 竞技宝app下载安装校友奖获得者.
Mara (Sovey) Downing '98 is among the many women who followed VanBruwaene into leadership at Deere & 公司, where today, 19 percent of the executive leadership force consists of women.
"Pat was a valued employee, respected community leader, and vigorous supporter of St. 竞技宝app下载安装," Downing, who is vice president of Global Brand and Communications at Deere & 公司, said on behalf of the Moline-based company. “虽然我们对她的去世感到悲伤, we know her legacy will live on through her generous gift to the school."
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