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estoration and renovation of the Illini and played on the tennis team. Auditorium on the Quadrangle of Upon completion of her degree the University of Illinois at Urbana- in 1932, Miss Foellinger returned Champaign has been realized by to Fort Wayne, Indiana, as a rethe generous gift of honor student, porter for the News-Sentinel. After campus leader and distinguished the death of her father, Oscar G. alumna Helene R. Foellinger. Foellinger, in 1936, she succeeded Helene Foellinger has played a him as president and general manager prominent role in the history of the of the News Publishing Company University of Illinois, as both a and later became president of the visionary benefactor and, earlier, as News-Sentinel Broadcasting an active student leader. A mathe- Company, Inc., and Fort Wayne matics major in the College of Newspapers, Inc., a joint venture Liberal Arts and Sciences, Miss with the city's Journal-Gazette. In Foellinger was an influential person- 1974, Miss Foellinger was featured ality within the campus community in Parade Magazine as one of ten of her time. A partial list of honors American businesswomen distinshe was awarded and activities she guished for their service on corporate participated in during her underboards. graduate years includes membership Since 1977, Helene Foellinger in Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Beta Phi, has been a director of the University Phi Mu Epsfton, Alpha Lambda of Illinois Foundation; and in 1979, Delta; and service with the student she began service on the Illinois council, Mortar Board and Torch. Cabinet, the national governing She also was an editor tor the Daihi board tor the Campaign for Illinois.