June 17, 2016

Trustees approve resolutions, renaming of campus golf course

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The Purdue Board of Trustees on Friday (June 17) approved resolutions of appreciation for outgoing board member John D. Hardin Jr., alumnus Brent E. Dickson, Lafayette law firm Stuart & Branigin LLP and several university donors. In addition, board members voted to rename a campus golf course that is part of the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex.

Hardin is retiring from the board after serving as a trustee since July 1992. He earned a bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics from Purdue in 1967, served as vice chair of the board from 2004-2009, and was co-chair of the national search for Purdue's 11th president, France A. Córdova. He has served as chair of the Agricultural Advisory Committee of the Chicago Board of Trade, president of the National Pork Producers Council and chair of the U.S. Meat Export Federation. He is now vice chair of American Farmland Trust.

Dickson, who attended Friday’s trustees’ meeting, retired in April from the Indiana Supreme Court after 30 years of service. He was appointed the 100th justice to the Indiana Supreme Court in 1986, was chief justice from 2012-2014 and has the distinction of being the third-longest serving justice in state history. Dickson earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Purdue in 1964 and was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1996 from the university. His wife, Jan Aikman Dickson, and all three of their sons are also Purdue alumni.

Stuart & Branigin has provided legal services to Purdue from the earliest days of its founding. Until the university's office of legal counsel was established in 2013, Stuart & Branigin attorneys served for many years in the elected offices of legal counsel and assistant legal counsel under the university's bylaws. Tom Parent was the most recent firm member to serve as legal counsel, and he was preceded in that role by Tony Benton, who is now celebrating 40 years of association with both the firm and university. Trustees expressed appreciation for Stuart & Branigin's longstanding relationship with Purdue and for the service of its attorneys, both past and present.

Resolutions also were approved for donors Donald and Patricia Coates (College of Engineering), Michael and Paula Klipsch (Intercollegiate Athletics), John and Donna Krenicki (Discovery Park), Paul and Carol Lay (College of Health and Human Sciences), Thomas and Sandra Malott (College of Engineering), Thomas and Margaret Sgritta (College of Engineering and College of Pharmacy) and Gregory and Kimberly Wasson (Intercollegiate Athletics and College of Pharmacy). All of the donors contributed $1 million or more.

Trustees approved renaming the Ackerman Hills Course the Ackerman-Allen Course. The golf course name change is in recognition of Samuel R. Allen’s $2 million gift to Purdue athletics for renovations to the park-style course and an additional $1 million gift from the Dr. James F. Ackerman family.

The course, located at 1300 Cherry Lane, reopened to the public on June 8. It is also used by students participating in classes, faculty and staff in league play, and by Purdue's nationally ranked men’s and women’s golf teams for practice, competition, and hosting Big Ten and NCAA events.

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