{"id":94750,"date":"2024-08-01T12:08:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T16:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=94750"},"modified":"2024-08-02T09:37:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T13:37:58","slug":"remembering-rudi-kroeker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2024\/08\/remembering-rudi-kroeker\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Rudi Kroeker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime Brock booster and past Chair of the Board of Trustees H.-Rudi Kroeker has died at the age of 70.<\/p>\n<p>Kroeker served 13 years on the University\u2019s Board of Trustees from 2001 to 2014, including three years as Board Chair.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, Kroeker and his wife Yvette gave a <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2014\/11\/local-businessman-and-supporter-donates-1-million-to-brock%e2%80%99s-cairns-complex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$1-million gift to the University<\/a> in support of the Roy and Lois Cairns Health and Bioscience Research Complex. In recognition of their generosity and service to Brock, the building\u2019s atrium was named the H.-Rudi Kroeker Family Atrium.<\/p>\n<p>A successful businessman, Kroeker led a number of companies, including the Welland-based Whiting Equipment Canada Inc. and Handling Specialty in Grimsby.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe entire Brock community is saddened at the loss of one of our most dedicated and passionate supporters,\u201d says Lesley Rigg, President and Vice-Chancellor. \u201cRudi and his family gave so much to this institution and have had a tremendous impact on generations of Brock students and researchers. For that we\u2019ll forever be grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A memorial service for Kroeker will be held in Brock University&#8217;s Sean O&#8217;Sullivan Theatre on Saturday, Aug. 10 at 2 p.m. Additional details are available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arbormemorial.ca\/en\/pleasantview\/obituaries\/hans-rudi-kroeker\/127368.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pleasantview Funeral Home website<\/a>. Complimentary parking will be available on campus Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Brock University will lower its flags in Koeker&#8217;s honour on the day of the service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime Brock booster and past Chair of the Board of Trustees H.-Rudi Kroeker has died at the age of 70.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[2041],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94750"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94773,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94750\/revisions\/94773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}