On June 9, 2020, on behalf of the Development Office, I called Eureka College alum Bill King (1971) to ask him why he had donated so much of his time and contributed financially to Eureka College. I first met Bill a few years ago when he was the featured speaker at a leadership conference sponsored by the College. He impressed me as being an eloquent speaker with much wisdom about leadership, and I was especially interested in how he would answer my question because he had served as Chairman of the Eureka College Board of Trustees and, after the death of David Adams, had been asked to serve as Acting Chairman until a permanent one could be named. Bill's service was especially important because it came at a crisis in the history of the College, a crisis which in his own words was "a transitional time."

 

Bill answered my 'why" question directly and cogently, "I gave because I can never repay Eureka College for what it has done for me." Then he told me that I needed to hear his story in order to understand the reasons for his generosity to EC.