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Dining services director named BOWLING GREEN, O. — A former restauranteur who also has extensive experience with college food service has joined Bowling
Green State University’s staff as director of dining services.
Gail Finan, the new director, spent nearly 20 years at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania before moving to North Carolina in
1998 as owner and president of Creekside Restaurant & Bar in Edenton, N.C. She operated the 150-seat restaurant and related
catering business—a combined operation of $750,000 annually—for more than three years. In 2001, Southern Living magazine recommended
Creekside as one of two places to dine when visiting Edenton. But Finan missed the college atmosphere in which she had spent
most of her career.
At Bryn Mawr, Finan was manager of food services for one year before being promoted to director in 1980. After a year in that
position, she served as director of housekeeping and operational services from 1981-84; director of administrative services
from 1984-91, and director of administrative services and operations from 1991-98. The latter positions included oversight
of dining services.
In 1989, Bryn Mawr received an Ivy Award from Restaurants and Institutions magazine for food service excellence. Recipients
of the national award—which BGSU won in 1984 and 1991—are chosen by their peers in voting conducted through the magazine.
She has held various positions with the National Association of College and University Food Services, including regional president
and, in 1988, treasurer for the national conference. She also has been active in the Philadelphia Delaware Valley Restaurant
Association.
Finan began her career in campus food service at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a dining hall manager from
1976-78 and associate director of food services in 1978-79. She earned a bachelor’s degree in hotel and restaurant management
from Cornell University in 1969.
(Posted September 08, 2003 )
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