Third Annual Dr. Jeremy D. Brown
Millennium Leader
Scholarship Luncheon
March 17, 2010
11:45 a.m.
Erie Bayfront Convention Center
Featuring
JERRY GREENFIELD
Co-founder of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream.

DR. JEREMY D. BROWN, PRESIDENT
This has been a record-breaking year for Edinboro University. This fall, we welcomed more than 8,200 students to campus, an all-time record for our institution. Additionally, our retention rate for first-time, full-time baccalaureate-seeking students increased to 75 percent– exceeding the national average.

At Edinboro, we have come to believe that growth and achievement are the norm rather than the exception. We are currently at the center of a five-year window during which some $200 million has been or will be spent on major campus academic, recreational and housing projects. Our goal is to provide students with state-of-the-art facilities that rival the faculty expertise they find in the classrooms, libraries and laboratories. Most recently we opened the Mike S. Zafirovski Sports and Recreation Center, the largest air-supported domed structure in the tri-state region. At 85,000 square feet, this facility will benefit our campus community as well as serve as a venue for regional events.

The university has flourished in the midst of challenging economic times. In fact, we are on target to surpass all fundraising records. I am very proud of the enthusiasm and confidence our faculty, staff, alumni, business partners and friends have shown in the university this past year. Their support of our many programmes and initiatives will no doubt improve the lives of students locally, regionally and globally both now and for generations to come. We have hosted three Presidential Scholarship Galas which raised funds for the Dr. Jeremy D. Brown Millennium Leader Scholarship. This award helps honours level students in excellent academic standing who exemplify leadership in extracurricular activities. The Gala proceeds combined with the funds raised through the annual Dr. Jeremy D. Brown Millennium Leader Scholarship Luncheon along with private donations and gifts have  dramatically increased this endowment to nearly $900,000. It is with heartfelt thanks that I commend all who  contributed to this scholarship.

Edinboro University is a great place due in large part to the loyalty and generosity of our faculty, staff, alumni and friends. I am indeed deeply grateful for your continued support.

JERRY GREENFIELD
Jerry Greenfield and his longtime friend and business partner Ben Cohen are the men behind one of the most talked-about, and least conventional, success stories in American business.

Co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc., Greenfield has helped to build a store front venture into a $300 million ice cream empire by making social responsibility and creative management strengths instead of weaknesses. Greenfield's presentation delivers a rousing tribute to America's entrepreneurial spirit, full of anecdotes and radical business philosophy. It also addresses the great sense of fun that is the company's hallmark.

Jerry Greenfield was born in Brooklyn, New York, four days before his future business partner Ben Cohen. He grew up and went to school in Merrick, Long Island. It was there that he first met Ben in junior high school, and the two have remained close friends ever since. Greenfield graduated from high school and enrolled at Oberlin College to study pre-med.

At Oberlin, Greenfield got his first taste of the ice cream industry when he took a job as a scooper in the college cafeteria. Ben and Jerry decided to fulfill a dream they both shared: running a food business together. The two eventually settled on ice cream, and, after a bit of research (and a $5 Penn State correspondence course in ice cream making), opened Ben & Jerry's Homemade ice cream parlor in Burlington, Vermont in May 1978.

Today a model for American business success, Greenfield and Cohen have been recognized for fostering their company's commitment to social responsibility by the Council on Economic Priorities (which awarded them the Corporate Giving Award in 1988 for donating 7.5 percent of their pre-tax profits to non-profit organizations through the Ben & Jerry's Foundation), and by the U.S. Small Business Administration (which named them U.S.
Small Business Persons of the Year in 1988).