Phyllis Tremaine, who has successfully handled the Amos Tuck School of Business Admin-istration's $35-million capital campaign, will leave soon to become the director of development at the University of Indiana Business School.
Tremaine, who is Tuck's director of development and has been there for six years, said she will start her new job on Sept. 20.
"We had a lot of success at Dartmouth. I want to see if I can apply the same system to a public school," Tremaine said in a telephone interview from Ontario, Canada. "It's the draw, the new challenge. I think I can really make a difference."
Tuck Dean Edward Fox, who praised Tremaine as a "delightful, hard worker," said she did a great job with the school's capital campaign.
Currently, $32.5 million of the Tuck Tomorrow capital campaign's $35-million goal has been raised, according to Tremaine. Fox said the capital campaign is in very good shape.
Indiana Business School Director of Development for individual givers Bill Heller said yesterday that the school will begin an approximately $50-million campaign in the next two years.
Indiana University's business school has about 3,200 students, Master of Business Administration candidates and doctoral students.
Fox said his successor Colin Blaydon, who will become the interim dean for a year in September, will form a search committee for a replacement for Tremaine. Blaydon was unavailable for comment.
Tremaine said she is sad to leave.
She said she was approached by Indiana University in early May and that she made the decision to accept the position three weeks ago.
She said deciding to leave was a "long, tortuous process."
