Broadhurst Joins Penn State Steering Committee

2-14-97

University Park, Pa. - Penn State alumnus James Broadhurst, chairman and CEO of Pittsburgh-based Eat 'n Park Restaurants, has been named a member of the steering committee for the University's planned capital campaign, President Graham Spanier announced today. The campaign will seek to raise private funds for student scholarships and fellowships, faculty endowments and a variety of other academic programs. The campaign's dollar goal will be announced later, according to Spanier.

Broadhurst, a native of Titusville and a 1965 Penn State graduate in economics, will chair the volunteer committee that seeks major gifts from other Penn State alumni and friends in the Pittsburgh region.

"Jim is one of the most highly regarded leaders in the Pittsburgh region and is well known there for his support of Penn State," Spanier said. "Penn State has more alumni in Allegheny County than another other county in Pennsylvania, and more students attend Penn State from Allegheny County than from any other county except Centre."

Broadhurst and chairpersons of other regions will join campaign chair and Penn State alumnus Edward R. Hintz of New York in providing leadership for the fund drive and soliciting major gifts.

From 1963 to 1973, Broadhurst was an assistant vice president with the Pittsburgh National Bank before joining Eat 'n Park, where he became president in 1975 and chairman and CEO in 1984. Eat 'n Park operates 68 family restaurants in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia and has five institutional food service accounts in the Pittsburgh area. Broadhurst and Eat'n Park have supported such Penn State efforts as the construction of the Mateer Building for the School of Hotel, Restaurant and Recreation Management, the Hershey Medical Center's Four Diamonds Fund and WPSX-TV programming. In January, Penn State named him a Distinguished Alumnus, the highest honor it bestows on its graduates.

Broadhurst is director of the National Restaurant Association, chairman of the executive committee of Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and incoming chairman of the board of the United Way of Allegheny County, for which he and his wife, Suzanne, a 1966 Penn State graduate in education, co-chaired the 1995 campaign.

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