by:Whitney Burney, WOODTV.com staff
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Traveling through the area you can find the name of Peter Secchia on buildings around West Michigan. Perhaps the largest is the Secchia Center at Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine on the Medical Mile in downtown Grand Rapids.
Mr. Secchia, a former U.S. ambassador and businessman,died Wednesday morning. He was 83.
Dr. Norman Beauchamp, executive vice president for health sciences at Michigan State, said of Secchia, “He led by example. Community mattered so he dedicated himself to improving the community. The struggles of others mattered, so dedicated himself to lessening it. He’s a two-time Marine, MSU Spartan. He really got things done in the industry, but at his core he really cared about making the world better and he saw that education was one really important way to do that.”
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