NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – Gerald C. Harvey, past chair of the Board of Trustees at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, was inducted today as a Trustee Governor at the University’s Board of Governors meeting in Camden. His term began July 1.
Harvey, a Summit resident, is executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of Breeze-Eastern Corp., a Union-based designer and manufacturer of rescue hoists and cargo hooks for military and civilian aircraft. He is a member of the panel of commercial arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association and President of the Board of Trustees of St. Philip’s Academy in Newark. The independent K-8 school has a special mission for urban children.
A 1972 Rutgers College graduate, Harvey earned a law degree from Columbia University in 1975.
“We are pleased that Mr. Harvey’s longtime relationship with Rutgers will continue as a member of the university’s highest governing body,” said Rutgers President Richard L. McCormick. “We commend his selfless service to his alma mater.”
Harvey had been a member of the Rutgers Board of Trustees since 1998. He is a past president of the Rutgers University Alumni Federation and a recipient of the Federation’s Meritorious Service Award. Harvey is also a member of the Rutgers Alumni Association’s Loyal Sons and Daughters.
He and his wife, Keiko, a past member of the Rutgers Board of Trustees and Board of Governors, have funded the Keiko and Gerald Harvey Scholarship for Women in Engineering at the Rutgers School of Engineering.
Established in 1766, Rutgers is one of the nation’s premier research universities, serving more than 50,000 students on campuses in Camden, Newark and New Brunswick. The Board of Trustees was the governing body of the university from its founding as Queen’s College in 1766 until the university was reorganized in 1956, when a state law created the 11-member Board of Governors as the governing body.
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