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BELOIT COLLEGE NAMES TRUSTEE AND FORMER HEALTH INDUSTRY EXECUTIVE TO BE INTERIM PRESIDENT
A health industry executive who has dedicated himself to the development of quality health and educational programs has been named to the post of interim president at Beloit College.
Dick Niemiec, recently retired senior vice president of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota, will assume the interim leadership of the 1,300 student liberal arts college in Beloit, Wis., on June 1. The announcement was made today to a gathering of students, faculty and staff in the College’s Eaton Chapel by chair of the Beloit Board of Trustees James Sanger. Niemiec will succeed John Burris, president of the college since 2000, who will step down at the end of May.
Niemiec is a 1965 graduate of Beloit College and was recently elected to the Board of Trustees of the College. He is also profiled in the current issue of Beloit College Magazine acknowledging the establishment of the Edwin F. Wilde, Jr. Distinguished Service Professorship honoring an undergraduate professor, mentor and friend. The professorship is the gift of Mr. Niemiec and his wife Joan, and is the first endowed professorship without departmental affiliation to be established at the College.
A mathematics major as an undergraduate, Niemiec did graduate work in statistics at the University of Missouri. After a brief teaching stint in Chicago, he joined Honeywell in Minneapolis as a systems analyst. In 1973, he began a 33 year career with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota which culminated in his appointment as senior vice president for corporate affairs in 1986.
Throughout his working career, he has been active as a volunteer serving causes related to health and education. A former member of the National Board of Governors of the American Red Cross for the past six years, he is vice chair of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Foundation and of the international Kobe College Corporation. He also serves on the boards of the Tubman Family Alliance, working to prevent family violence in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area , and the YMCA of Greater St Paul.