Gifts in Action - The Loichles

MEET THE LOICHLES

Lee Loichle and his wife, Jan, are ILIR supporters. Lee, who holds a master’s degree from the Institute, spent 27 years in the Human Resources organization at Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI, retiring as Global Personnel Planning Manager.

HOW THEY GAVE

In 2001, Lee and Jan Loichle traveled to campus to surprise ILIR Professor Emeritus Martin Wagner with the announcement that they were endowing a fellowship at the Institute in his honor.

The Loichle Family Foundation Fellowship benefits ILIR students with outstanding undergraduate achievement who have expressed an interest in union relations as well as the organizational behavior side of human resources.

The inaugural fellowship was awarded in the fall of 2001 to Charles Fields III, an honor student in business administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His undergraduate studies included a course titled Labor Problems and he held a research assistantship that included research collecting data on labor disputes.

WHY THEY GAVE

“The faculty at the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations provided me an outstanding academic foundation for my 27-year career in Human Resources at the Ford Motor Company. In that spirit, Jan and I are pleased to honor Martin Wagner through the Loichle Family Fellowship,” said Lee.

Story courtesy ILIR.