Saint Louis University dedicates Professional Studies building to Thomas Brouster

It has been learnt that Saint Louis University, the renowned private, co-educational Jesuit university, has dedicated its School for Professional Studies building in honor of Thomas Brouster Sr., Chairman of Missouri banking for National City Bank. Is there any necessity of it? Well, this question was also asked to the university officials. However their answers are enough to make any inquisitive questioner or even any detractor silent.

Thomas Brouster has always been illustrious in his professional career and also served as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and majority owner of Forbes First Financial, the holding company for Pioneer Bank and Trust, an independent state chartered bank specializing in small and middle market companies. It was the year 2005 when he sold the company to National City Bank where he is at this time the Chairman of Missouri banking. He has to his credit more than 40 years of banking experience and has spent his career acquiring and performing the turnaround management of financial institutions in Missouri, Illinois and Kansas. What’s more, for over a decade, he has volunteered his services to SLU as a member of the John Cook School of Business executive advisory board and in the end as a member of the University’s board of trustees.

He is also the same person who rendered $1 million to the Chaifetz Arena project, helping SLU build an on-campus arena.

Saint Louis University (also known as SLU) happens to be a private, co-educational Jesuit university located in St. Louis, Missouri. It was founded in 1818 by the Most Reverend Louis Guillaume Valentin Dubourg and thus it is the oldest university west of the Mississippi River. It is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. The university is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.

It must be mentioned as well that the university provides undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. Besides its undergraduate program is at present ranked 80th in the 2009 U.S. News and World Report rankings of “America’s Best Colleges.”