August 17, 2016

Richard Breslin, a former Catholic priest and president of the University of Charleston in West Virginia, becomes Drexel's president in 1988. During his presidency, he increases alumni giving, the strength of Drexel’s basketball program and even Drexel’s campus, since he started the tradition of Drexel logos being installed on lampposts and railroad trestles. After low undergraduate enrollment and budget cuts across the University, Breslin resigns in 1994. Drexel alumnus and trustee C.R. “Chuck” Pennoni ('63, '66, Hon. '92) serves in the interim.