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'03 excelled in the John Dewey Honors program and hopes to share his love of classical languages with the next generation of students and scholars.
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7.11.06 McCREE FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP FOCUSES ON LEADERSHIP
For Don McCree '83, it's leadership that matters most in organizations. He should know. As a member of the Executive Committee at JPMorgan Chase, he has a key role on the leadership team for an organization with assets of more than $1 trillion and operations in more than 5o countries. Leadership has become a consistent theme in McCree's life going at least as far back as his days as a student at UVM. He held a number of leadership positions with the Student Government Association and was one of a group of '80s students to participate in a Leadership College that focused on helping students to develop their leadership abilities.
Today, McCree wants to help a new generation of UVM students to emerge as leaders in their chosen fields. He and his wife, Gabrielle, have made a gift to The Campaign for the University of Vermont establishing the McCree Family Scholarship Fund, which will provide annual scholarship awards to students with proven leadership potential.
"I've always been interested in what makes people develop into the broad-based leaders we need to run our organizations and institutions," he says. "It's an exciting thing to be involved in, and Gabby and I are thrilled to be doing it."
McCree says today's University of Vermont provides an excellent example of the benefits of effective leadership. "I think President Fogel has done an absolutely fantastic job reinvigorating the University with a strategic focus reaching across a wide range of issues," he says. "The most impresive thing has been the clarity of strategic thinking and a long-term vision married with a strong communications plan to move the University forward."