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- Title:
- Rod Hagenbuch interview
- Interviewee:
- Hagenbuch, Rod
- Interviewer:
- Wadland, Justin
- Date Created:
- 2020-06-09
- Role:
- Advisory board member; Community member
- Department:
- Economic Development Board
- Subjects:
- Ryan Petty Tacoma-Pierce County Economic Development Board (EDB) Michigan State University urban planning urban renewal economic development Robert Hotaling Meridian Township Planning Commission affirmative action zoning ordinance environmental review Milton Robert Carr landscape architecture Bert Winterbottom William Philip George Weyerhaeuser George Russell Urban League Tom Dixon Executive Council for A Greater Tacoma warehouse district Black Lives Matter movement
- Biography:
- Rob Hagenbuch (b. 1936) served as the chairman of the Tacoma-Pierce County Economic Development Board (EDB) in the mid- to late 1980s when efforts to establish branch campuses in the state of Washtington were just taking hold. Hagenbuch has been a strong supporter of University of Washington Tacoma since its establishment in 1990. A consultant and philanthropist, he has worked for decades in the securities industry with Merrill Lynch as an Institutional Consultant working with Fortune 100 companies, union, state, and municipal retirement funds and bank trust departments. He is a graduate of Michigan State University; he subsequently completed the Stanford University Executive Marketing Management program and the Securities Industry Institute at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He now lives in the Pacific Palisades, California, where he remains active in the community, serving on multiple advisory boards.
- Description:
- In this interview, Hagenbuch recounts behind-the-scenes work he and Ryan Petty did at the Tacoma-Pierce County Economic Development Board (EDB) to garner support for the establishment of a branch campus in Tacoma, including meeting with University of Washington president Bill Gerberding and Washington State University president Sam Smith. He shares his formative experience working for the Meridian Township Planning Commission in Michigan in the 1960s and '70s, reflecting on how collaborating with Michigan State University faculty and writing ordinances shaped his perspective on urban development and university-community partnerships. He describes arriving in Tacoma in 1982 as the manager of the local office of Merrill Lynch, finding himself leading the EDB, and witnessing the establishment of the Executive Council based on the recommendations of community planning consultant Bert Winterbottom (Rouse Company).
- Location:
- United States--Washington (State)--Tacoma United States--Michigan
- Type:
- Sound; Text; StillImage
- Format:
- cpd
- Preferred Citation:
- University of Washington Libraries, University of Washington Tacoma Library, UWTOH202005