Krannert to feature guest
speaker
By Genevieve Puppe
Staff
Writer
The Krannert School of Management’s Executive
Forum recently began its programs for the second semester of the school
year.
Speakers will continue to visit Purdue’s campus
every Friday for several months, covering a variety of topics in their
speeches.
Chuck Armstrong, president and chief executive
officer of the Seattle Mariners, is scheduled to speak at 11:30 a.m.
today in the Krannert Building Auditorium.
Armstrong, a Purdue alumnus, has arranged a speech
titled "How Purdue Prepared Me to Run a Major League Baseball Team."
Armstrong, who was named president of the Seattle
Mariners on June 29, 1992, received a bachelor's degree in industrial
engineering and was designated Purdue engineering’s "Outstanding
Senior Man."
"(Purdue) was a perfect place and school,"
said Armstrong. "I’m looking forward to coming back to Purdue
and meeting the students."
The Executive Forum is a one-credit class offered
to upperclassman management students, as well as undergraduates from
engineering and other schools.
Established in 1973, the Forum is an academic class
that features top-level corporate executives as guest lecturers.
Richard Cosier, dean of the Krannert School of
Management, is responsible for recruiting guest speakers each semester.
Several, but not all, of the speakers are Purdue alumni.
Each speech delivered is open to the public, as
space allows.
Cosier said the Executive Forum is a different
kind of challenging program that benefits all that attend.
"(The Executive Forum) provides a diversity
of speakers and topics," said Cosier, who encourages everyone to
come to at least one of the lectures.
The Krannert School of Management’s biannual
Executive Forum began the semester on Jan. 26 with John Willis, co-chief
executive officer of Willis Stein & Partners.
Jane Boulware, vice president of marketing and
e-business for Kimberly-Clark Corporation, spoke the following Friday
on lessons she learned between her time at Purdue and her current corporate
executive position.
• Following Armstrong is Greg Wasson, vice
president of operations for Walgreens, who will speak at 11:30 a.m.,
Feb. 16 in the Krannert auditorium. The lectures run every Friday morning
through April 20.
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