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Greg (LC'82) & Anna Brown

  • Class
    1982
  • Induction
    2018
  • Sport(s)
    1869 Legacy Award

PISCATAWAY (Aug. 30, 2018) ­— Moments after the announcement of their $4 million gift to benefit the renovation of the Rutgers football locker room, Greg LC’82 and Anna Brown accepted the 1869 Legacy Award, the most distinguished honor bestowed at Thursday evening’s fifth annual 50-Yard Line Celebration at HighPoint.com Stadium.
 
The award recognizes supporters who have made a lifetime impact on the lives of Rutgers student-athletes through generosity, involvement and commitment. In the building adjacent to the evening’s marquee event, the Brown Family’s most recent generosity will prominently aid in the construction of a new, best-in-class locker room in Rutgers football’s Hale Center, while also moving the needle to the $99 million mark for the Rutgers Big Ten Build campaign. With this gift, the Brown Family has granted a total of $7.5 million to Rutgers’ Big Ten Build.
 
“What makes it special is that we remain true to who we are,” Mr. Brown said upon accepting the 1869 Legacy Award. “When we decide to do something, we’re all in. We have the right people in charge here to make it happen. We’re passionate about the cause and we believe in the people. It’s in that spirit that we rally around you. We subscribe to the philosophy that when it’s all said and done, it’s about what you’ve given away and the impact you make. We are climbing the mountain, and you don’t need to see the whole mountain to take the first step. Let’s continue to lock arms, stack hands, punch forward and invest in this University with tradition, roots, inclusion, history and Jersey pride.”
 
A 1982 graduate of Rutgers’ Livingston College with a degree in economics, Mr. Brown is the Chairman and CEO of Motorola Solutions, a data communications and telecommunications company spun off from Motorola Inc. in 2011. Mr. Brown, who has worked in telecommunications for three decades, was appointed by former President George W. Bush to the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee in 2004, and is a former member of President Barack Obama’s Management Advisory Board and Skills for America’s Future Board.
 
He is a dedicated supporter of Rutgers football and the University’s groundbreaking academic research departments. In 2009, he pledged $2.5 million to name the Brown Football Recruiting Pavilion & Welcome Center at HighPoint.com Stadium. In 2012, Greg was honored by Motorola with a $1.5 million gift to endow the Gregory Q. Brown Chair in Cell Biology & Neuroscience at Rutgers. Brown’s wife, Anna, is the granddaughter of Henry and Anna Starr, who founded the Rutgers University Psychological Clinic in 1929.
 
A pair of the current Scarlet Knights – baseball’s Carmen Sclafani and rowing’s Sarah Johanek were in attendance and delivered comments of appreciation and gratitude. Sclafani is a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar and baseball’s slugging leader from 2018. Johanek won a gold medal with the United States U23 women’s coxed four this summer, following a First Team All-Big Ten honor in the spring. Both shared the stage with the emcee of the evening, Chris Carlin, the radio voice of Rutgers football and WFAN sports radio host.
 
Guests for the signature event included Scarlet Society members, All-America level donors, Rutgers coaches, administrators, student-athletes and IMG sponsorship partners. It was again the largest gathering of supporters in the running five-year history of the event.

Click the image below to see the photo gallery from the 2018 50-Yard Line Celebration.
 
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