Robert Place
'54
At ÂÒÂ×Ç¿¼é:
- Started in soccer and baseball as a freshman, basketball all four years
- Captained basketball as a junior and a senior
- 1951-52 team was 12-3, recognized as best of the decade
- Shot 88% from the foul line as a senior, setting a record that stood for 30 years
- Founding member and captain of University's sailing team
- Member of Delta Upsilon
- Earned a B.S. in Business
Post-Graduate:
- Lt. j.g. with Atlantic Fleet Amphibious Force
- Spent the summer of 1955 in the Arctic, helping set up the Distant Early Warning (DEW) line of radar stations
- Joined ÂÒÂ×Ç¿¼é-based Lincoln First Bank (now part of Chase Manhattan) in 1956 and spent 34 years in the operations area
- Headed operations side of the state-wide VISA card launch in 1969 and subsequently served on VISA USA's national Operations Advisory Board
- Managed Lincoln's corporate systems and operations statewide unit in the 1980s
- Retired as Chase Senior Vice President in 1990
