Charles E. "Chuck" Perry is Dean Emeritus and Distinguished Adjunct Professor of the Graduate School of Management at the University of Dallas which is the largest MBA-granting intitution in the Southwest. Mr. Perry has had a broad and distinguished background in education, government and business. During his career which began as an English and history teacher in the public schools, Perry had the distinction of being the youngest university president in the nation when at the age of 30 he was named founding president of Florida International University . For two decades Mr. Perry was in the private sector serving as chief executive officer of several businesses, the most well known being Golden Bear International--the worldwide Jack Nicklaus organization. Perry also headed companies involve in the fields of publishing, communications, distribution, recreation, real estate and investment, management and marketing services.
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1965:
Honorably Discharged from the United States Army.
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1968:
Received the Governor's Award for Outstanding Contributions to the State
of Florida.
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1971:
Named "One of the Ten Outstanding Young Men in America " by the U.S. Jaycees.
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1973:
Recipient of the Medal of Honor from the Accion Pro Darien Society of Colombia.
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1975:
He was granted the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Bowling Green State University
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1986:
He was intriduced into the BGSU Athletic Hall of Fame.
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1987:
Perry was named a Centennial Alumnus by the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges.
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1991:
A building of the Florida International University was named the "Charles E.
Perry Building."
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1996:
The Boerd of Trustees of Bowling Green State University named its new $10 million multipurpose athletic/recreation facility the "Charles E. Perry Fieldhouse."
From the guide to the The Papers of Charles E. Perry, 1965-1994, (Repository Unknown)
