PRES RPT 2022 ONYX ANNEAU

Morgan remembers TheWoods with a $100,000 bequest

Frank J. Morgan, an American businessman, philanthropist and SMWC trustee from 1987 to 1996, who served as president of The Quaker Oats Company, died peacefully on October 15, 2022, in Barrington, IL. He was 97. Morgan was a generous donor to The Woods throughout his life and was a member of the Onyx Cumulative Gifts Society and the Legacy Guild, remembering The Woods in his estate with a $100,000 bequest to continue the great work of the institution in perpetuity. SMWC honored Morgan as a member of the Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2021, which consisted of the SMWC Board of Trustees for the academic years 1992-1993 and 1993-1994. Morgan was one of 38 trustees who made the vital decision to create scholarship athletics beginning with the women’s basketball team and the softball team during their tenure. “The decision to add scholarship athletics was a historical one — a gym floor that would be talked about for the next 20 years, for strengthening the College at a time it was most needed, making The Woods competitive with other institutions, and finally, for setting in motion a ball that has never stopped rolling… enabling us to add women’s and men’s volleyball and men’s basketball which has brought enrollment and vitality to the campus program,” said Dottie L. King, Ph.D., president.

Morgan enlisted in the United States Navy and served on the USS Piedmont, Store Keeper 3rd Class and subsequently served in the V-12 Officer Program at Yale University. He graduated from Yale in 1947 with a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering and business administration and completed the Program for Management Development (PMD) from the Harvard University Business School in 1966. Early in his career, Morgan worked in various manufacturing positions, including Chance Vought, where he helped lead the project team for the F7U Cutlass Fighter, a cutting-edge plane developed for the U.S. Navy that was the first American fighter designed with an afterburner. He later worked at the New Departure Division of GM, The Remington Arms Company (a subsidiary of DuPont) and American Bosch Arma, where he was involved in the design and installation of the first all-inertial guidance system on the Atlas E (SM-65) ICBM missile. In 1964, Morgan accepted a position at the Quaker Oats Company, where he served 26 years. May he rest in peace. Top: . During a visit in 2021, President Dottie L. King, Ph.D., presented Frank Morgan a plaque for being a member of the Ahtletic Hall of Fame Class of 2021, which consisted of the SMWC Board of Trustees for the academic years 1992-1993 and 1993-1994.

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