President Thomas J. Haas, who will retire in June, talks about some of the items in his Zumberge Hall office that are meaningful to him. Scroll below for a video tour of nine special items, or view the entire video here.
Haas earned a master’s degree in chemistry from the University of
Michigan and a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Connecticut.
Haas created his own Challenge Coins, patterned after military medals,
to honor select people.
Haas' grandparents emigrated from Cracow to New York’s Ellis Island in
1915 and settled on Staten Island where he grew up.
While in the Coast Guard, Haas served on two cutters on the Great Lakes.
“When the board hired me to be president of Grand Valley, they hired a
real Laker.”
