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Keystone Bank Breakfast Series
This series provides regular opportunities for community members to hear what WMU faculty, alumni, and friends of the College of Business have to say about important business issues of the day, and we are pleased that Keystone Community Bank has agreed to underwrite it.
2007-08 Speakers
April 25: Ms. Fran Denny, Executive Director, Catholic Family Services, Kalamazoo, "The Ark: Somewhere to Run”
February 29 :Mr. T. Jefferson (Jeff) Murphy, Mediation Services of Southwest Michigan, “Mediation, Not Litigation: You mean, I don’t have to go to court?”
January 25: Mr. Robert Jorth, Executive Administrator, Kalamazoo Promise, "Kalamazoo Promise: Where We Started, Where We Are."
September 21: Dr. John Dunn, President, Western Michigan University, "The Western Edge."
2006-07 Speakers
May 25 : Ken Miller, Chief Operating Office, Havirco, "Process + Politics = Precedence."
April 27 : Frank J. Sardone, President & CEO, Bronson Healthcare Group, "Achieving Business Excellence the Baldrige Way."
February 23: Jim Kneen, President & CEO of Heritage Community of Kalamazoo, "Older and Better."
January 17: Thomas Beech, President and CEO of the Fetzer Institute in Kalamazoo, "The Fetzer Institute's Work on Love and Forgiveness: Fluff or Substance."
December 1: Bob Miller, WMU Associate Vice President, Community Outreach, "The BTR Park and the Downtown Science Center..a Community Success Story and Vision for the Future."
October 27: Frank Weichlein, Director of the Kalamazoo County Juvenile Home, “Our Community’s Kids, A Juvenile Justice Perspective-Present and Future,”
September 29: Dean Shields, "A New Vision for Haworth College of Business"
Previous speakers include—
- Greg DeHaan, Senior Vice President of Allen Edwin Homes
- Kalamazoo County Sheriff Michael J. Anderson
- Dr. Randall W. Eberts, Executive Director of the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
- Maurice Hovious, president of Hov-Aire, Inc.
- Robert L. Jansen, Jansen Valk Thompson Reahm P.C.
- William Johnston, President, Director and Chair of Greenleaf Companies
- Captain Wayne K. Kruger, Deputy Director and CFO of the Kalamazoo Air Zoo
- Mr. Joshua Weiner, Chief Executive Officer of Meyer C. Weiner Company