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Awards and Honors<br />
Northwestern Mutual Receives<br />
2006 Baird Management Excellence Award<br />
Edward J. Zore<br />
Edward J. Zore, President & CEO of Northwestern Mutual., accepted the 2006 Baird<br />
Management Excellence Award at a luncheon program in Novem ber. The award is presented<br />
annually to a company that has demonstrated superior performance on behalf of its customers,<br />
employees, shareholders, and the com munities in which it operates. The annual event is cosponsored<br />
by Robert W. Baird & Co. and <strong>UW</strong>M’s Executive MBA Alumni Association.<br />
“Beyond its phenomenal success, North western Mutual is highly respected within the industry<br />
and throughout corporate America for the value they place on quality and integrity,” said<br />
Paul E. Purcell, Baird’s Chairman, President & CEO.<br />
Based in <strong>Milwaukee</strong>, Northwestern Mutual is market share leader for total individual life<br />
insurance premiums of any company in the United States, with over $1 trillion of individual<br />
life insurance in force. Through 4,800 employees in <strong>Milwaukee</strong> and fi nancial representatives<br />
in 350 offi ces nationwide, the company offers more than 3 million policy owners an array of<br />
fi nancial services, such as insurance products, investment products, and advisory services to<br />
help protect them against risk and achieve fi nancial security. The company celebrates its<br />
150th anniversary in 2007.<br />
Emeritus Professor Jerry Leer<br />
Recognized on <strong>UW</strong>M’s Spaights Plaza<br />
Emeritus Professor Jerry Leer was honored with <strong>UW</strong>M’s Spaights Award this past fall. The<br />
award recognizes individuals who have made signifi cant, enduring, and campus-wide contributions<br />
to the growth, development, and reputation of <strong>UW</strong>M.<br />
An accounting professor for 37 years, Leer originally joined the faculty of the <strong>Milwaukee</strong> campus<br />
of the <strong>UW</strong> Division of Commerce in 1946, and became a member of the <strong>UW</strong>M faculty when the<br />
University of Wisconsin–<strong>Milwaukee</strong> campus was created 10 years later.<br />
“Throughout his career, Professor Leer was well known as a master teacher and for establishing a<br />
discipline of professionalism among his students that became the foundation for their professional<br />
success and integrity,” said Dean V. Kanti Prasad.<br />
Former student Dennis J. Kuester (’66), now Chairman of Marshall & Ilsley Corporation, said of<br />
his mentor: “Jerry Leer expected excellence from his students and did everything in his power<br />
to help them achieve it.”<br />
Since his retirement in 1983, Professor Leer has continued to demonstrate extra ordinary support<br />
of the School and the accounting program. He has been instrumental in establishing and<br />
promoting the Leer Accounting & Taxation Excel lence Fund, as well as the Leer/Tellier<br />
Scholarship Fund, which has granted over $300,000 in scholarship awards in its 23 year history.<br />
Jerry Leer<br />
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