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COMBE FAMILY
VICE PRESIDENT
Northwestern University is celebrating the 10-year anniversary
of Combe Family Vice President for Athletics and Recreation Jim
Phillips, and with it a remarkable decade of success for
Wildcats student-athletes in the classroom,
in the community and in competition.
Phillips' position will now be
known as the Combe Family
Vice President for Athletics
and Recreation.
Named in recognition of
a $10 million gift from
University trustee and
alumnus Chris Combe
'70, the endowed posi-
tion provides a perpetual
source of funding for the
vice president to pursue
important projects and
address new opportu-
nities. The commitment
was announced previous-
ly and is part of We Will. The
Campaign for Northwestern, for
which Combe serves as co-chair.
"We are so grateful to Chris and his family for their ongoing lead-
ership, volunteerism and generosity, which have helped shape
many areas at Northwestern, both in Athletics and Recreation
and throughout the University," said University President Morton
O. Schapiro.
Chris Combe is chairman of Combe Incorporated, a global health
and beauty products company. He received his bachelor's degree
in economics from the Weinberg College of Arts and
Sciences. He serves in numerous volunteer
roles, including as a co-chair of We Will.
The Campaign for Northwestern and
the New York Regional Cam-
paign Committee and of his
class reunion committees.
A University trustee since
1997 and director of the
Alumni Admissions Council
for Westchester, New York,
since 1975, he is also a
founding member of the
Weinberg College Board
of Visitors, established in
1981.
"Jim Phillips exemplifies
all that is good about
Northwestern Athletics," said
Combe. "He is as caring for his
500 true scholar-athletes as he is
for his own dear family. Jim and his outstanding 19 head coaches
know academics and character building come before athletic
excellence, though under his leadership we have achieved all
three!"
University trustee and alumnus Chris Combe '70 endows the position of
Northwestern Vice President For Athletics and Recreation
