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Dr. Lyle Gramley, Class of 1943
Dr. Lyle Gramley, is the Senior Academic Adviser of the Stanford Washington Group. In 1977, Gramley was chosen by President Jimmy Carter to serve as one of the three members of the United States President’s Council of Economic Advisers, the senior policymaking body to advise the President on economic matters. In 1980, he was appointed by the President to serve as one of seven Governors of the Federal Reserve Board. Today, he is readily called upon by the media for his counsel on economic issues. |
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Donald E. Kieso, Class of 1954
Dr. Donald Kieso, a world-renowned accountant, is currently the KPMG Peat Marwick Emeritus Professor of Accountancy at Northern Illinois University. A former accounting consultant with financial giants Price Waterhouse & Co. and Arthur Andersen & Co, Dr. Kieso is also a celebrated author. He has written 25 books that have been translated into 13 different languages, including the bestselling textbook, Intermediate Accounting, which is used by 70% of colleges and universities in the country. |
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Sue Ling Gin, Class of 1959
Sue Ling Gin, widow of MCI founder Bill McGowan, is one of Chicago’s most prominent self-made businesswomen. She is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of the Flying Food Group, a $20 million enterprise that services over 100 airlines and other customers from 11 locations in the US and China. A savvy entrepreneur and community advocate, Gin serves on the Board of Directors of DePaul University, Exelon Corporation, Chicago Botanic Garden, the Field Museum and Rush Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center. She is also the only woman that served on the Navy Pier Development Authority Board, the body that designed the famed Navy Pier in Chicago. |
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Penny Deligiannis - Class of 1983
Penny Deligiannis is an international humanitarian whose work has impacted hundreds of thousands of people in Albania, Kosovo, and Africa. Deligiannis is the Humanitarian Advisor to His Beatitude, Archbishop Anastasios of Albania. As Country Director of Diaconia Agapes (“Service of Love”), which is the national relief office of the Orthodox Church of Albania, she has spent the last twenty years of her life traveling from Aurora to Albania and throughout the world directing educational, social, and emergency relief programs. In 1999, she represented the Republic of Albania at the World Council of Churches in Geneva, Switzerland and received the largest grant ever of $8.49 million to implement a large-scale Emergency Relief Program. |
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