Several months ago Scott called Dean. Scott is director of alumni relations at the Drucker School of Business at Claremont where Dean received his PhD. He wanted to take Dean to lunch. Dean said, "well that's great and I live in Tahoe." No problem for Scott who came to Tahoe, took Dean to lunch and asked a lot of questions about being a PhD alumnus from the Drucker School. Scott went back to Claremont, a new Dean of Business arrived in August and said he wanted to re-activate the Executive PhD program. Scott said, "well, I have met this guy . . . "
Dean called his PhD friends and said, "If we meet together to share ideas for re-activating the program, would you come?" The answer was a resounding Yes!
Result: Dean pulled together a brief agenda to encourage folks to talk about their experience at the Drucker School, many of them in the presence of the great man himself; the school invited all their PhD folks out there in the world of management; fifteen of them gathered and shared wisdom for 24 hours with Dean facilitating. Dean became a rock star.
At lunch during Drucker Day, an annual event on campus, Dean was asked to sit a the table with Doris Drucker, Peter's wife. This lady, extraordinary in her own right as a physicist, is 102 years old ~ still with her sharp mind and delightful wit.
Later in the lunch time, they surprised Dean with the first annual Drucker Alumni Appreciation Award "In recognition of your significant engagement with the Drucker School and its alumni community"
The award has a quote from Peter Drucker:
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Dean and Scott and Judy had great intentions and they immediately went to work and had a terrific event which resulted in a core group of graduates willing to help their school move forward into an amazing future.
Congratulations, Dean! You deserve it!
2 comments:
I had no idea I had Claremont in common with Dean! I'm Pitzer College 1975, when Peter Drucker was still active and teaching at the graduate school. After graduation, in my "Claremont cockroach'" years I worked at the B. Dalton/Pickwick bookstore in Montclair Plaza where his wife would come in to order books. We'd tell her it would take 6-8 weeks for the book to arrive and she'd come in after 2 to see if it was in. Glad to know she's still around and doing well!
Mike, interesting -- small world and all that. Someone asked Doris not long ago if she was still playing tennis. Her reply, "No. And when you get to be 102, you will know why." Remains a feisty lady! :)
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