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Richard L. Yuengling Jr., president and fifth-generationowner of D.G. Yuengling & Son, will give a talk about running a family business 7:30 p.m. today in the Oeschsle Hall auditorium.
Free and open to the public, the talk is the second in the 2003-2004 CIRCLE Entrepreneurship series organized by students and supported by the Hunsicker Fund, which promotes the study of entrepreneurship at Lafayette. Two additional lectures are planned for the spring.
Now in its fourth year, CIRCLE is organized by economics and business major Matthew Guadagno ’05 of Short Hills, N.J., American Studies major Adrienne Stark ’04 of Oxford, N.J., A.B. engineering major Noah Payne’05 of Brookline, Mass., and mathematics and economics major Martin Lawlor’05 of Morristown, N.J. They are advised by Rosie Bukics, Thomas Roy and Lura Forrest Jones Professor of Economics and Business, and Sheila Handy, assistant professor of economics and business.
Yuengling has significantly expanded the company’s operations since taking over in 1985. He built a second brewery in Pottsville, which opened in 2001, and acquired the former Stroh Brewery in Tampa, Fla., which is also in full production.
Yuengling is a lifelong resident of Pottsville and a graduate of Pottsville Area High School. He is a member of the Schuylkill Chamber of Commerce, United Way, American Hose Co., Pottsville Rotary, and Pottsville Lions Club. He serves on the Board of Directors at the Pottsville Hospital-Warne Clinic and is an active member of the Pennsylvania Brewers Association.
Several members of the Yuengling family attended Lafayette, including William Gaul Yeungling, a member of the class of 1884, as well as Frank Dohrman Yuengling, Jr., class of 1937, and Richard Lee Yuengling, class of 1939, who were direct descendants of founder D.G. Yuengling. They inherited the company in 1963 and ran it until 1985.
Charles Abrams ’92, CEO of textile lamination company Dela, Inc. and managing principal of Ward Hill Realty Assoc., began this year’s CIRCLE series with a lecture Sept. 23.