SPOTLIGHT: MODEL REUNIONERS
The idea was cooked up over breakfast one day by Peter Cowie ’81, P ’10 and David Splaine ’81: create an endowed class scholarship — the first of its kind at Bentley — in honor of their 35th reunion. ...
Giving Back
Bentley Center for Women and Business Receives $1 Million from Liberty Mutual Insurance to Advance Young Women’s Leadership
The Center for Women and Business (CWB) at Bentley University has joined forces with insurance giant Liberty Mutual Insurance to strengthen young women’s leadership and education. ...
Call of Duty
It’s an exciting time to give to Bentley, according to Steven and Christine (Smith) Manfredi, both Class of 1973 graduates and parents to Laura ’10. Pick any weekday to walk across the quad and you’re sure to overhear Marketing majors brainstorming strategy for a major label or bump into blazer- and backpack-clad students off to internships or interviews.
“Students come here for a solid education with the goal of pursuing a career, not just a job,” says Steve. “They’re immersed in programs and taught by terrific faculty who prepare them for the real world.”
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Back for Good
Bentley trustee and principal of Massry Realty Partners/Tri City Rentals Norman Massry ’78, P ’08 ’09 shares why he believes in Bentley. ...
Seeing Her Potential
Her mom passed away when she was 11; her father when she was 18. And yet, when you meet Olivia Corriveau ’18, you see a quiet determination that shines as brightly as her infectious smile — and she can’t help but see her Bentley life in gains, not losses. ...
Who's There?
There’s a small room in the Rauch Administration Center papered in a riot of color. “When you work odd hours making calls around the world, you need a way to relax on break,” says Liam Clifford ’17. ...
On Merit
For so many Bentley donors, their gifts are founded on trust — and transformational goals. ...
Of Revolutionaries and Renegades
“We’ve never heard of ‘business ethics.’” The grant refusal by the National Endowment for the Humanities came swiftly and spoke volumes of the times: It was 1974 and the country under President Richard Nixon was in the thick of the Watergate scandal. ...
He Was Just Non-Stop
When a Bentley friend passed away after graduation, Ney Peralta '10 wanted to make sure his legacy lived on. ...
A Legacy Begins
The first formal gift to Bentley was Bentley itself. On July 1, 1948, Harry Bentley donated his entire interest in the school to a nonprofit corporation managed by a Board of Trustees. That act has benefited generations of Bentley students, and it aids a greater need that is universal today. ...