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Robert Eaton hopes his lecture will inspire students
BY CARLO RAMIREZ
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Robert Eaton, a KU alumnus and former Chrysler CEO, will speak to engineering students, faculty and staff today at 3 p.m. in the Spahr classroom in Eaton Hall.
Eaton, a Kappa Sigma Fraternity alumnus, graduated from the University in 1963 with a mechanical engineering degree. Since then, he has been a leader in the U.S. auto industry for nearly 40 years. Eaton will be in Lawrence serving as the grand marshal of the University's
homecoming festivities.
He is returning to the University as part of Homecoming Week and will share his experiences and advice with students.
Eaton will briefly speak about his successful career path, but wants the lecture to be an open forum.
"It's going to be a conversation," Eaton said in a
University press release "I'll give a little background about myself.
then open it up. I'm going to try to convince them that I'm not any different than they are, and they can do whatever they want to do in life."
Eaton donated $5 million to the School of Engineering to help complete the 80,000-square-foot building that is named in his honor. The building houses classrooms, computer labs and offices for the school as well as the Department of Electrical Engineering a.4 Computer Science.
In his 30 years with General Motors, Eaton rose to president of GM Europe. He then left GM in 1992 to become chairman and
chief executive officer of Chrysler Corporation. In 1998 he was in charge of overseeing a $76 billion merger between Chrysler and Daimler-Benz. He then spent the next two years as chairman of the newly formed DaimlerChrysler before retiring in 2000.
"Absolutely unpretentious and unaffected by his success — you'd never know his history by meeting and interacting with him," said David Steen, 1971 KU graduate and Kappa Sigma alumnus. "He is very loyal, worked only for GM then Chrysler, same wife who was his KU sweetheart, comes by to see the guys every chance he gets
to be in Lawrence, and is very generous to offer advice and comments to them."
Eaton was awarded the Distinguished Service Citation in 1994 by the KU Alumni Association, a life trustee with KU Endowment and was honored by the School of Engineering with its Distinguished Engineering Service Award.
The lecture is open to all KU students, Jill Hummels, director of Public Relations for the School of Engineering, said everyone has something to learn from Eaton.
"A person like Bob Eaton
"doesn't rise to the top of a ma-
rien."
ROBERT EATON
LECTURE
WHEN: Today, 3 p.m.
WHERE: Spahr classroom in Eaton Hall
corporation just by being good at one thing, such as engineering." Hummels said. "Leaders are multifaceted and they have a broad understanding of activities inside and outside their organization."
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Ramapo College this month banned the caffeinated alcoholic beverages, tightened restrictions on guests and increased penalties for underage drinking after a raucous start to the fall semester in which 23 people were hospitalized for alcohol intoxication, school officials said.
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