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Wadsworth woman, student named BGSU Trustees Wadsworth woman, student named BGSU Trustees
BOWLING GREEN, O.—The Bowling Green State University Board of Trustees has gained two new members with Ohio Gov. Robert Taft’s
appointment of Debra D. Ryan of Wadsworth, and Raquel Colon of Oregon, an undergraduate student at BGSU.
Ryan, a 1974 Bowling Green graduate, was appointed to a nine-year term effective in May. She replaces Leon Bibb, a Cleveland
television journalist whose term is expiring.
Colon’s appointment is for two years, also beginning in May. She replaces graduating senior Matthew Clever as a student member
of the board.
Ryan is co-founder, vice president and secretary of the PDR Foundation Inc., a private, family charitable foundation, and
of the PDR Group, LLC, a family limited partnership/investment company. Holder of a bachelor’s degree in biology from BGSU,
she worked as a medical technologist until 1980.
Ryan is a member of the national steering and kickoff committees for “Building Dreams: The Centennial Campaign for Bowling
Green State University.” She is also a member of the BGSU College of Arts and Sciences Board of Advocates and its strategic
planning committee. She has been active on various committees in Wadsworth City Schools as well.
Her husband, Patrick, is also a 1974 accounting graduate of Bowling Green. The Ryans established the Patrick L. and Debra
Ryan Endowed Professorship in Biology at BGSU in 2001, and their $500,000 gift to the University in 2004 was divided between
the endowed professorship and the entrepreneurship program in the College of Business Administration.
The other new trustee, Colon, is a BGSU sophomore majoring in political science. She is president of the Latino Student Union,
a member of the Diversity Leadership Team and has attended the University’s Leadershape Institute.
A 2003 graduate of Clay High School, Colon is the daughter of Diana Segura of Curtice and Roberto Colon of Oregon.
(Posted April 22, 2005 )
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