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The year was 2008, and Butler’s Director of External Relations (and handler of the University’s live mascot) had a side hustle handling public relations and marketing for Vision Racing.

After two kidney transplants and a battle with cancer, Trent Tipple M.D. will finally graduate.

Michele Eaton, a Butler alumna and Indianapolis educator, didn’t expect to become an Education Week “Leader to Learn From” after she left campus in 2008.

Market research consultant by day—nonprofit volunteer by night. 

Over the course of 48 hours, we decided to quit our jobs, leave Indianapolis, road trip across the United States, and buy a one-way ticket to India. 

“I trained my brain to learn as much as I could about my craft, and I became the top sales guy by 25. I just took my athletic principals and applied them to the business world.”

“Immerse yourself in something but experience everything.” 

On the menu: trust, collaboration, innovation, and connections

Can one little newspaper story change a life? It did for Max Schumacher ’54. 

“I thought I was going to save the world from a classroom.”

During her 25 years as a public relations practitioner, Ramonna Robinson ’93 has seen the best and worst the world has to offer. 

Why would a man who graduated cum laude with three job offers accept the one that didn’t quite match either of his two Butler University degrees?