杰出校友学院成立于2011年. The award is the highest honor bestowed by the University and was established to recognize the extraordinary accomplishments of alumni who have made significant contributions to their chosen professional field and/or through their community involvement. 哈佛大学很荣幸能够表彰那些激励了他们国家的校友, 状态, community and BGSU.

让我们一起祝贺2013年杰出校友:

Linda Forte ’74
教育与人类发展学院

观看琳达·福特的入门视频

Linda Forte is senior vice president of business affairs and chief diversity officer for Comerica Incorporated. 她是世行国家高级领导团队的成员. 她的职责包括监督美国慈善基金会, 美国捐款和公民事务. Forte has demonstrated a passion for her employees and adopted hometown that surpasses her job description.

Forte has spent the entirety of her nearly 40-year career with Comerica after a BGSU education faculty member recognized and cultivated her aptitude for business. She has risen through the Comerica ranks in various positions of increasing responsibility in branch management, human resources, 公司银行业务和行政管理.

福特是亨利·福特健康系统董事会的志愿者, New Detroit, 密歇根妇女基金会, Executive 领导 Council, 底特律市经济发展公司, 妇女关怀计划和密歇根联合黑人学院基金. 她还担任底特律水和污水处理部门的专员.

Most recently she was recognized as the 2013 Girl Scouts “Tough Cookie” 领导 Awardee, 2013年女性和职场领袖杰出服务奖获得者, 2013年DBusiness“女性助力”奖得主, 2012年密歇根妇女基金会颁发的成就与勇气女性奖, 2012年慈善教育项目博士奖获得者. She was also selected by Black Enterprise magazine as one of the 2011 Top Executives in Diversity, and by Crain’s Detroit Business magazine as one of 2007’s Most Influential Women and one of Detroit’s 100 Black Business Leaders in 1998.

She earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology and education at BGSU and her MBA in finance and accounting from the University of Michigan.

Forte serves her alma mater as a member of the BGSU Student Affairs Board of Advocates. 在BGSU读本科时，她是Delta Sigma Theta姐妹会的成员.

George McPhee ’82
College of 艺术 and 科学

观看乔治·麦克菲的就职视频

乔治·麦克菲是1982年的副总裁兼总经理

麦克菲立刻被认为是BGSU的一名出色的曲棍球运动员. 从1978年到1982年，他连续四年获奖, 他是1982年霍比·贝克纪念奖的获得者, 给大学冰球的顶尖选手. 他的其他荣誉包括1982年入选ccha一线队, second-team All-CCHA honors in 1979 and 1981 and his selection as the CCHA’s Rookie of the Year in 1979. 获得人际交往学位, he became the first player to be named to the CCHA All-Academic Team in three consecutive seasons. Washington Capitals. 他也是BGSU 100位最杰出的校友之一, BGSU Athletic Hall of Famer, 也是大学曲棍球史上获奖最多的学生运动员之一.

在他大学生涯结束后, McPhee signed as a free agent with the New York Rangers and started his NHL career during the 1982 Stanley Cup playoffs. 在他为游骑兵队和新泽西魔鬼队效力7年之后, 麦克菲于1992年在罗格斯大学获得法律学位.

Prior to joining the Capitals, McPhee spent five seasons as the vice president and director of hockey operations as well as an alternate governor for the Vancouver Canucks. In his time with the Canucks, 这支球队四次进入季后赛, 分区冠军和1994年斯坦利杯决赛之旅.

6月9日，麦克菲被任命为球队历史上第五位总经理, 1997年加盟首都队后立即获得成功, engineering the club’s first trip to the Stanley Cup Finals in his first season. Under his leadership, 这支球队在1999-00年间七次夺得东南赛区冠军, 2000-01, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2012-13), 7个40胜以上的赛季(1997-98赛季), 1999-00, 2000-01, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10赛季和2010-11赛季)并创造了俱乐部的胜场和积分纪录(2009-10赛季).

McPhee has stayed connected to his alma mater and has invested in the BGSU Hockey team and the renovation of the Ice Arena and remains committed to motivating BGSU student-athletes.

Dr. 保罗·W. Stiffler ’65, ’67
College of 艺术 and 科学

博士的观点. 保罗·W. Stiffler's Induction Video

Dr. 保罗·W. 史蒂芬勒是一位经过认证的微生物学家, 企业家和BGSU大学图书馆的热情支持者. He is co-founder, executive vice president and director of regulatory affairs for Medtrol, Inc., 广泛用于医疗保健的感染控制产品的制造商, 食品服务和教育行业.

自1994年创立Medtrol以来，stiff和他的商业伙伴Dr. 约瑟夫·克. Martorano, have expanded the Chicago-based operation into a leading manufacturer of more than 35 disinfectant and sanitation products. 他们持有EPA注册的用于包装的专利, pre-diluted, 漂白剂(次氯酸钠)液体和饱和湿巾. 这些包装的漂白剂湿巾可以抵抗诸如 Clostridium difficile spores, MRSA, VRE, 肠沙门氏菌，铜绿假单胞菌, HIV, Hepatitis B and C, and Trichophyton mentagrophytes.

Stiffler is a founding member of the Library Advocates Board and has served as its chair since 2006. Stiffler and his board colleagues supported an expansive renovation of the William T. Jerome Library, 其中包括新的小组学习和讨论空间, a coffee and snack counter, 加强对数字馆藏的访问. His leadership and support was recognized with a 2009 Friends Award from University 库.

Stiffler earned both his bachelor’s degree in biology and chemistry in 1965 and master’s degree in biology in 1967 from Bowling Green State University. As an undergraduate, Stiffler was president of the Union Activities Organization and a member of the men’s swim team.

Stiffler earned his doctorate in microbiology and public health from Michigan State University in 1972, and completed his clinical microbiology fellowship at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.

Since graduating from BGSU, Stiffler has also endowed two scholarships to support BGSU students.

Maryrose Sylvester ’87
施密特索尔斯特商学院  

观看Maryrose Sylvester的入门视频

87届的Maryrose Sylvester是总统 & CEO of GE Lighting, 这是财富500强公司旗下价值30亿美元的部门, General Electric, leading nearly 15,000 people in manufacturing, 销售, technology and distribution locations around the world who fulfill customers’ most basic and business-critical needs with a wide variety of innovative, lighting products and services.

西尔维斯特在通用电气工作了26年，其中有15年在通用电气照明公司工作. 1987年，她开始了自己在通用电气的职业生涯. 韦恩,印第安纳州. Her career has included numerous supervisory and leadership positions in several different businesses within General Electric. 她最近担任的是总统 & CEO of GE Intelligent Platforms and in the same capacity before that at the former GE Quartz. 她曾担任GE照明欧洲布达佩斯采购总监, Hungary in 1996, 在这个国家共产主义垮台后不到十年.

1997年，她帮助建立了通用电气女性网络, an important part of General Electric’s organized effort to cultivate diversity and empower its workforce. She is quick to acknowledge the dozens of mentors and advocates who helped to develop her career, and Sylvester is a thoughtful and conscientious mentor to talented young professionals and women in business.

Sylvester is active in community outreach both nationally and in her community of greater Cleveland. She is on the Board of Governors for the National Electrical Manufacturers Association and serves on the Board for the Foundation Fighting Blindness, 大克利夫兰伙伴关系和大克利夫兰联合之路.  她也是凯斯西储大学企业访问委员会成员.

She earned her bachelor’s degree in the former procurement and production management program (now the supply chain management program) in 1987 from Bowling Green State University. As an undergraduate, Sylvester was a member of Management Club and Delta Zeta sorority. 她拥有克利夫兰州立大学工商管理硕士学位.