Drury University,formerly Drury College and originally Springfield College,is a private university in Springfield,Missouri. The university's mission statement describes itself as "church-related". It enrolls about 1,590 undergraduate and graduate students in six master's programs and 716 students in the College of Continuing Professional Studies. In 2013,the Drury Panthers men's basketball team won the NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Championship. The Drury men's and women's Panthers have accumulated 22 NCAA Division II National Championships between them,in addition to numerous NAIA titles before moving to the NCAA.
Bernard Joseph White is president emeritus of the University of Illinois and professor emeritus of business at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He is dean emeritus of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and professor emeritus of business administration at the University of Michigan,where he also served as interim president,and Wilbur K. Pierpont Collegiate Professor of Leadership in Management Education. He is the author of The Nature of Leadership and Boards That Excel:Candid Insights and Practical Advice for Directors. Boards That Excel was named Governance Book of the Year for 2014 by Directors and Boards.
Glendal William Poshard is an American educator and former politician who served as a Illinois State Senator and U.S. Congressman,serving five terms in Congress from 1989 to 1999.
John H. Biggs is a former director of The Boeing Company from their 1997 merger with McDonnell Douglas until May 2011,and the National Bureau of Economic Research as well as a trustee of Washington University in St. Louis. He was previously chairman and chief executive officer of financial services company TIAA-CREF from January 1993 until November 2002.
John F. McDonnell is an American businessman,engineer,and philanthropist. McDonnell served as the chairman of the McDonnell Douglas Corporation from 1988 until its merger with Boeing in 1997 and its chief executive officer from 1988 until 1994. He was a corporate director at Boeing from the 1997 merger until 2012,when he reached the Boeing-mandated retirement age of 74.
Saint Augustine's University is a private historically black Christian college in Raleigh,North Carolina. It was founded by Episcopal clergy in 1867 for the education of freed slaves.
Aloysius Paul Kelley,S.J. is an American Jesuit and educator. He served as the seventh president of Fairfield University,located in Fairfield,Connecticut,from 1979 to 2004.
Patrick T Stokes is the former Chairman and CEO of Anheuser-Busch Companies,Inc. He served as President and CEO from 2002 to December 2006 and Chairman from December 2006 to November 2008.
Ben "Todd" Parnell III is retired president of Drury University in Springfield,Missouri,co-founder and the retired CEO of THE BANK in Springfield,a community activist,an environmental advocate,an author,and keynote speaker. Parnell was sworn in as interim president at a faculty/staff meeting in Clara Thompson Hall on April 23,2007,upon the resignation of John Sellars,Drury's fifteenth president. After a number of options were considered for the office,Parnell was formally inaugurated as Drury University's sixteenth president on April 20,2008,by Drury's trustee-driven search committee. Parnell retired in 2013,serving his last day as president on May 31,2013.
John William Ryan was an American academic administrator who most notably served as the President of Indiana University for sixteen years.
George Joseph Lucas is an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He has been serving as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Omaha in Nebraska since 2009,having previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois from 1999 to 2009.
Gerald Tsai Jr. was an investor and philanthropist who helped build Fidelity Investments into a mutual fund powerhouse.
Frank Stanley Cerveny was the sixth bishop of the Diocese of Florida and the 699th bishop in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America,a province of the Anglican Communion.
Fred P. Pestello is an American sociologist and administrator in higher education. He currently serves as the 33rd president of Saint Louis University (SLU) in St. Louis,Missouri. Prior to this,he was the 13th president of Le Moyne College,a post he had held since July 1,2008.
Bruce Karsh is an American investor and former lawyer. In the early 1980s he was an appellate clerk to former Supreme Court of the United States justice Anthony M. Kennedy,and later worked at O'Melveny &Myers,Sun Life Insurance Company,and the TCW Group. He co-founded Oaktree Capital Management in 1995,later becoming the firm's co-chairman and CIO. As of August 2020,according to Forbes magazine,he has a net worth of $2.1 billion,ranking him No. 391 on the Forbes 400.
George Kerasotes was an American theatre owner and former head of Theatre Owners of America. During his time with Kerasotes Theatres,he helped to bring the operation from three local theaters to 550 Midwestern theatres.
Marc B. Nathanson is an American entrepreneur who served as the United States ambassador to Norway from 2022 to 2024. He is best known for his founding of Falcon Cable,which he sold in 1999 for $3.7 billion. He is a member of the Cable TV Hall of Fame,awarded with Inc.s Entrepreneur of the Year and a former chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors. In 2021,his net worth was listed as $2.3 billion by Forbes Magazine in their annual The World's Billionaires listing;
Philip Needleman was an American medical researcher,pharmaceutical industry executive and leader and philanthropist.
Jim James Ovia is a Nigerian businessman and author. He is the founder of Zenith Bank,which he founded in 1990,and is now the country's most profitable bank.
J. Timothy Cloyd is an American educator and former higher education administrator. Cloyd served as the president of Hendrix College in Conway,Arkansas from 2001 to 2013. In 2016,he became president of Drury University in Springfield,Missouri,a position he held until his resignation in March of 2023.
