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- Engineering and Business
Convergence Center - Markin Family Student
Recreation Center - Athletic Performance Center
- Men's Basketball
Practice Facility - Alumni Center
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Renaissance Circle Society
Estate Charter Members as of April 2008
Marie Creamer
$3.7 million unrestricted gift for the Campaign for a Bradley Renaissance
Noted textile designer Marie Creamer was the design force in the rug industry for nearly 50 years, principally as a freelance designer for Regal Rugs. Responsible for many innovative designs and technical changes in the industry, she earned recognition from the American Institute of Interior Design.
Her only son, Charles Forak Creamer III, attended Bradley University and served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam, where he was killed in 1970. Marie Creamer passed away on August 4, 2007, in Wellington, Florida, at the age of 94. Her estate gift was given to Bradley University in loving memory of her son.
Gregory '62 and Marylu Miller
$2.7 million planned gift in support of an endowed scholarship
Gregory Miller graduated from Bradley in 1962 with a bachelor’s degree in engineering before enlisting in the Coast Guard as a seaman apprentice officer candidate. When an official asked for volunteers to attend flight school, Miller complied. He served during the Cuban missile crisis and was among those watching for Soviet ships with missiles coming into Cuba. That decision led to a lifetime career as a pilot. Over the years, he was a pilot for National Airlines, Pan Am, and Delta. He often flew internationally and also flew charter flights for the White House press corps.
Gregory Miller and his wife, Marylu, live in Prescott, Arizona.
Dr. Rita Newton
Planned gift in support of the College of Engineering and Technology
Dr. Rita Newton, Bradley’s first female engineering professor, retired in 2000. A professor of industrial engineering, she was a mentor for many female students in a field that has been traditionally dominated by men. When Dr. Newton arrived on campus in 1969, just a handful of women studied engineering, but by the early 1980s, that figure had grown to almost 100. Dr. Newton is the 1973 recipient of the University’s prestigious Putnam Award, which honors professors for excellence in teaching. Before teaching at Bradley, she was employed by Bell Aerospace, where she worked on simulation models for the lunar rover that made missions to the moon possible.