Unrestricted gifts are particularly crucial now that all our needs cannot be met by state revenues and tuition. The technological revolution, alone, has forced enormous expenses on universities as we all struggle to equip state-of-the-art classrooms and provide computer equipment for student and faculty use. The gifts that provide discretionary funds allow us to meet unexpected needs as they arise.
Commerce alumnus James F. Doyle (BS Accountancy 1974) and his wife Deborah have made a gift of $100,000 to provide unrestricted support to the College of Commerce. Mr. Doyle, executive vice president of Worldwide Beverages, a division of the Quaker Oats company, joined the company in 1981. In recent years he has maintained close ties with the college and university. In 1993 he visited campus as part of our Executive-in-Residence program. He has also been a member of the business Advisory College of the college since 1994. The Doyles have three children. Deborah doyle and one son also attended the University of Illinois.
Michael R. Fayhee (BS finance 1970) and his wife Janice became members of the Presidents council with a gift of $10,000 to the college for unrestricted use. Mr. Fayhee, an attorney, is a partner in the Chicago office of McDermott, will & Emery. since his initial gift, he has continued to make gifts to the annual fund. a member of the college's business Advisory council, Mr. Fayhee has also agreed to serve as 1996-97 chair of the David Kinley society for the Chicago area. while an undergraduate at Illinois, Fayhee worked for emerson Cammack in the undergraduate affairs office.
Bradley L. Goldberg, who earned a bachelor's in finance in 1966, has created the Bradley L. Goldberg Endowment Fund, with a gift of $100,000 for unrestricted use. He is executive vice president and director of Jennison Associates Captial Corporation in New York City, an institutional investment management firm.
Derek K. Harmon, Sr. (BS Finance 1981), has made a bequest of $50,000 to the college of commerce to be used for general academic purposes. Mr. harmon, an attorney, has his own law practice in Houston, Texas.
John C. Piland, who earned a B.S. in Business administration from the university in 1984 and a J.D. in 1987, has made an undesignated, deferred gift of $25,000 to the university (life insurance policy). John Piland, was appointed Champaign county State's Attorney in March 1995. Prior to this appointment he was an attorney with the Urbana office of Heyl, Royster, Voelker, & Allen.
Stephen J. Weiser (BS Management 1961) has named the College of commerce as the beneficiary of a $10,000 life insurance policy provided by his employer, the Bank of America. Mr. Weiser, who lives in Lafayette, California, is senior vice president at Bank of America in San Francisco.
The Amway Corporation has made a gift of $10,000 to the college. Half of the gift is for the college annual fund and half is being used by the Commerce Placement Office to support a graduate assistant in that office. Paul Van Randwyk, Manager, Global Product Pricing, says "Amway supports the university because of it's reputation for excellence in education and our own experience of hiring graduates for the U of I. the University of Illinois graduates that have been hired by Amway are very well prepared to enter the business environment and have proven to significant contributors to our continues success."
"I solidified my interest in the stock market and therefore set my career direction while attending the College of commerce at the U of I."
Bradley L. Goldberg