Penn State Intercom......February 1, 2001
Grand Destiny
welcomes new chair
By Anne Danahy
University Relations
The Grand Destiny capital campaign has a new chair in Jim Broadhurst, a 1965 Penn State graduate and chairman and CEO of Pittsburgh-based Eat'n Park Hospitality Group Inc. Broadhurst currently heads the Pittsburgh region of the campaign.
Broadhurst's predecessor, Edward R. Hintz, stepped down from his campaign leadership post to serve as chair of the University's Board of Trustees. The Trustees elected Hintz chair at their Jan. 19 meeting.
The campaign,
which supports students, faculty, academic programs and other University
needs, began in 1996 and is scheduled to run until June 30, 2003. As of
Dec. 31, gifts and pledges totaled $875 million. As chair, Broadhurst
will spearhead its next leg. 
Broadhurst and his wife, Suzy Broadhurst, a 1966 graduate of the College of Education, have a long history of being involved with the University and supporting the Grand Destiny campaign. Jim Broadhurst is a University Trustee. He also is a member of the campaign steering committee.
Together, the Broadhursts es-tablished an endowment in 1998 to create scholarships in their colleges -- liberal arts and education -- and to support distance education in the College of Health and Human Development. That part of the gift helps Eat'n Park employees participate in a distance education program for the associate degree in Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management.
The Broadhursts and Eat'n Park also made a leadership gift to support the construction of Mateer Building for the School of Hotel, Restaurant and Recreation Management.
In 1973, after spending seven years at Pittsburgh National Bank, Broadhurst began working at Eat'n Park. He was named president in 1975, and chairman and CEO in 1984. In 1994, Broadhurst was named Alumni Fellow of the College of Health and Human Development, and in 1997 he received the Distinguished Alumni Award, the University's highest award for one of its graduates.
Eat'n Park Hospitality Group encompasses three integrated business divisions -- CURA Hospitality, a Lehigh Valley-based provider of dining services to senior living facilities in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland; Eat'n Park Restaurants, a chain of more than 75 full-service family restaurants in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia; and Parkhurst Dining Services, which provides contract dining services to corporations, colleges, universities and The Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.