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in memoriam
SUSAN E. HECKLER
(1955-2011)
Professor of marketing Susan
E. Heckler began her career
as a chemist before earning
her MBA and Ph.D. from the
University of Minnesota in
1987. She joined the
University of St. Thomas in
1984 as assistant professor
of marketing and went on
to serve as visiting assistant
professor at Duke University’s
Fuqua School of Business,
assistant professor of
marketing at the University
of Michigan, professor of
marketing and psychology at
the UA, and visiting professor
of marketing at Georgetown
University. She rejoined St.
Thomas in 2003 as Opus
Distinguished Endowed Chair
in Marketing at the Opus
College of Business, where
she not only taught classes
and continued her research,
but mentored new faculty.
During her teaching career,
Heckler won numerous
awards, among them
Outstanding MBA Faculty
from the University of
Arizona in 1995-96 and
again in 1998-99, and a
Special Award for Excellence
in Service to the Faculty from
the University of Arizona in
2000. Also while at Arizona,
she was elected to the
position of secretary of the
faculty, one of the highest
ranked governance officers
among the 3,000-member
university faculty.
JAMES P. LOGAN
(1921-2011)
James Logan was born in
Frenchtown, New Jersey. He
grew up in Evanston, Illinois,
and attended Princeton
University, where he graduated
with high honors in English
in 1943. As a member of the
U.S. Army Enlisted Reserve
Corps, Logan served his
country as a meteorologist
during World War II.
After working in private
industry in Indiana, he and his
family moved to Cambridge,
where he earned his master’s
degree at Harvard University
in 1949. He began his career
in education at the Columbia
University Graduate School of
Business. In 1954 he became
assistant professor at the
Amos Tuck School of Business
at Dartmouth College, where
he taught until 1958.
He returned to Columbia to
earn his doctoral degree.
In 1968 Logan moved his
family to Tucson, where he
was appointed professor of
business administration at the
University of Arizona. Before
his retirement in 1989, he was
twice awarded Professor of
the Year honors.
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