Dr. Vern Buehler donates $750,000 to create professorship in Business
Dr. Vern Buehler's '41 heart still resides in the College of Business at Utah State University. Before he retired as a faculty member there, he became known as a dedicated visionary, building the internationally recognized Partners in Business and Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing programs from the ground up.
“He epitomizes what one faculty member at Utah State University can do,” said former College of Business Dean Caryn Beck-Dudley '80.
Now, as usual, Buehler wants to do more. Buehler, with the support of the Donnell B. and Elizabeth D. Stewart Educational Foundation, has made generous gifts totaling $750,000 to fund the Vernon M. Buehler Professorship, which will support and reward outstanding professors in the college where Buehler has made it clear that no dream can ever be too big. The new endowment merely augments Buehler's storied association with the college, for which he has funded eight scholarships and other professorships and has unselfishly performed years of dedicated service, including ongoing gifts of time and other resources to COB students and faculty. Buehler is also revered for his gift of nearly $1 million to the Sunshine Terrace Foundation, where he served as president.
Buehler graduated from USU in 1941 with a BS in accounting. He holds a Harvard MBA and a Ph.D. in economics from George Washington University. Beck-Dudley said the gifts of Buehler's generous heart seem always to arrive alongside gifts of his equally impressive mind. She called Buehler "a bold thinker, who has always realized the connection between business and society and who may well have established one of the first business ethics courses in the country." The Vernon M. Buehler Professorship will be housed in the Dean's Office and further cements a pioneer's legacy on the college he holds so near to his heart.
