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Reunion Ticket

  • Cost: $200
  • Ticket price includes access to all sessions and events scheduled for November 9–11.
  • Lodging and football-game tickets are not included with your ticket.
  • Transportation will be provided on Friday to events from the Union Club Hotel and the Hilton Garden Inn Wabash Landing.

Optional Saturday Add-on Activity

Purdue Football vs. Minnesota 

ACCOMMODATIONS

Lodging can be secured at any hotel in the Greater Lafayette area. We have negotiated special rates at the Union Club Hotel and the Hilton Garden Inn Wabash Landing. On Friday, November 10, transportation will be provided between the Convergence Center and these two hotels.

Union Club Hotel

Union Club Hotel

  • The reservation deadline has passed for the room block at this hotel. To inquire about room availability, call the Union Club Hotel at 765-494-8922.
  • Rate: $484 for November 9–11, plus taxes and fees
  • Limited number of rooms, so we suggest booking as early as possible.
  • Reservations for this room block must be made by 5PM on
    October 2.
  • To reserve a room, call the Union Club Hotel at 765-494-8922 and mention the “Entrepreneurial Reunion room block,” or book here.
Hilton Garden Inn

Hilton Garden Inn Wabash Landing

  • The reservation deadline has passed for the room block at this hotel. To inquire about room availability, call the hotel at 765-743-2100.
  • Rate: varies by day with an average of $295 per night for November 9–11
  • Due to hotel policy on football weekends, rooms can be booked for either Thursday only, Thursday-Friday-Saturday, or Friday-Saturday. A two-day, Thursday-Friday stay is not available.
  • Limited number of rooms, so we suggest booking as early as possible.
  • Reservations for this room block must be made by 5PM on October 19.
  • To reserve a room, call the Hilton Garden Inn at 765-743-2100 and mention the group code “EAW,” or book here.
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John Purdue Club

Patsy J. Mellott

BS College of Health and Human Sciences, 1969
Fishers, IN

Patsy earned a bachelor’s degree in food and nutrition in business from Purdue in 1969, in addition to an MBA in food marketing from Michigan State University in 1970. She retired from Kraft Foods in 2006 after 36 years in corporate food marketing and marketing communications management.

A community volunteer, Patsy serves on the Women’s Fund of Central Indiana Advisory Board and the Purdue College of Health and Human Sciences Dean’s Leadership Council, in addition to the President’s Council Advisory Board. She is a former member of the Health and Human Sciences Alumni Board. Patsy held several offices from 2006 through 2013, including president and treasurer. She serves her community’s Discover Indianapolis Club in Fishers, holding several leadership roles for over 10 years.

Patsy has received several honors, including the Purdue University Nutrition Science Department Hall of Fame recipient in 2009 and the Purdue University College of Health and Human Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award in 2016. She also received the college’s Gold and Black Award in 2016, an honor reserved for donors who have moved the college forward by committing exceptional financial resources.

In addition to endowing two scholarships, the Patsy J. Mellott Scholarship and Patsy J. Mellott HHS Scholarship, she established the Patsy J. Mellott Teaching Innovation Award in the College of Health and Human Sciences in 2013. In 2015, she endowed the Patsy J. Mellott Women’s Tennis Coach Performance Award. She is a lead donor in the Christine M. Ladisch Faculty Leadership Award and the Purdue Women’s Network Virginia C. Meredith Scholarship for the College of Health and Human Sciences.