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Hoogendyk was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He is of Dutch ancestry. He worked as a manager with a Fortune 500 company. He joined Alternatives of Kalamazoo, Pregnancy Care Center as executive director in April 1996. In 2000, Hoogendyk was elected to the Kalamazoo County Board of Commissioners. Prior to that, he was on the Portage Zoning Board of ...
Gilmore’s greatest legacy is negotiating The Upjohn Company’s 1958 transition to a publicly-traded company. On October 24, 1958, The Upjohn Company’s board of directors voted to recommend public ownership of the company. On December 11, 1958, the Board voted for a twenty-five to one stock split, and Gilmore negotiated a $45.00 price per ...
t. e. The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) is the oldest and largest national anti-abortion organization in the United States with affiliates in all 50 states and more than 3,000 local chapters nationwide. [2][N 1] Since the 1980s, NRLC has influenced anti-abortion policy at national and state levels through campaign financing of anti ...
The Fetzer Institute, based in Kalamazoo, Michigan, was founded by broadcast pioneer and Detroit Tigers baseball team owner John E. Fetzer (1901–1991). He formed the institute to support work “designed to discover and enhance the integral relationships of the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of experience which foster human growth, action, and responsible improvement ...
Parfet joined The Upjohn Company (now recognized as Pfizer) in March 1973 and was a member of the Board of Directors from 1985 through 2003. He also served as the chairman of the board and independent lead director for Stryker Corporation, director for Monsanto Company, director for Consumers Energy, director of Bissel Inc and director for ...
December 8, 2011 marked another major milestone in the history of WMed. At the WMU Board of Trustees meeting, William U. Parfet, the chairman and chief executive officer of MPI Research and the great-grandson of W.E. Upjohn, donated to WMU a 330,000 square foot building located in downtown Kalamazoo that serves as the home of WMed. [4]
The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts current building was unveiled in September 1961. Designed by the Chicago, Illinois, firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the 45,000 square feet (4,200 m 2) structure is based on a Mies van der Rohe design for a small museum, in the International Style of architecture. [1][2]
He is a former chair of the Board of Directors of Pathfinder International. Personal life. Before his death on November 18, 2008, Todd resided in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Todd was married to Terry for 51 years and together they had four children. Terry preceded him in death in 1997.