Purdue Alumni Association // President’s Council // John Purdue Club

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Stephen McKinley Henderson

Stephen McKinley Henderson (MA LA’77) has had a busy year. He appeared in two Oscar-nominated films, Fences and Manchester by the Sea, additions that are not too shabby in an already impressive résumé. Henderson started out as a math and political science major at Lincoln University, drawn to the precision of mathematics. But soon poetry […]

Robert Kovach

From tiny Davis, West Virginia, through Purdue to New York City, Robert Kovach (MFA’00) has parlayed small-town sensibility into Big Apple success. Whether he’s designing a General Motors launch of a new vehicle or setting the stage for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat from off-Broadway to theaters across America, Kovach has built a reputation […]