St. Joseph College in West Hartford will use a $1 million gift from the family of the founder of Wall Street investment bank Keefe Bruyette & Woods to create a state-of-the-art downtown Hartford classroom for its new pharmacy school.
The school says it will establish the Kathleen B. and Gene F. Bruyette Classroom in the Round when its inaugural downtown class begins this fall in the pharmacy school located in the Hartford 21 residential-office-retail complex on Trumbull Street.
Kathleen Bruyette is a 1949 graduate of St. Joseph and a former member of its board of trustees.Â
Gene Bruyette, who founded his eponymous financial-services investment bank in 1962, also served on the school’s Investment Advisory Committee. Both received honorary doctorate degrees from St. Joseph in 2004.
“Kathy and Gene Bruyette are our greatest benefactors and once again St. Joseph College has been blessed with their largess,” President Pamela Trotman Reid said in a statement Tuesday.Â
“We greatly admire the students, faculty and staff of St. Joseph College, and are pleased to have the opportunity to assist them in their first-ever doctoral degree program,” the donors said in the same statement. “The new School of Pharmacy will have a profound impact on students and the greater Hartford community.”
The Bruyettes’ earlier donations created a natatorium and a cultural center, both on the West Hartford campus. They also sponsored the school’s financial literacy program and an early childhood seminar.
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