James S. Broadhurst, Chairman & CEO of Eat’n Park, to Speak at

UPT Graduation on April 30

TITUSVILLE, April 22 – James S. Broadhurst, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Eat’n Park Hospitality Group, will present the graduation address at the University of Pittsburgh at Titusville’s ninth annual graduation ceremony to be held on Saturday, April 30, at 2:00 p.m. in Henne Auditorium in the Broadhurst Science Center.  Forty-two students will be awarded Associate of Arts, Associate of Science and Bachelor of Science in Business Management degrees.

Broadhurst is a 1965 graduate of The Pennsylvania State University, where he was named the University's 1994 Alumni Fellow by the College of Health and Human Development.  He received the 1997 Distinguished Alumnus Award from Penn State and was chosen to serve as the Conti Distinguished Professor at Penn State in 1999.  He was the Chairman of "A Grand Destiny - The Penn State Campaign".  Broadhurst holds a Masters in Business Administration degree from the University of Pittsburgh, where he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Katz Graduate School of Business.

Broadhurst joined Eat’n Park as Executive Vice President and Treasurer in 1973 following a seven-year career in commercial banking with Pittsburgh National Bank.  He was elected President of Eat'n Park Restaurants in 1975, and nine years later became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.  

Eat'n Park Hospitality Group, Inc. provides diversified food services to over 150 facilities throughout the mid-Atlantic region and encompasses three integrated business divisions - Eat'n Park Restaurants, a full-service, family restaurant chain with restaurants in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia; Parkhurst Dining Services, a provider of contract dining services to colleges, universities, corporations and The Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh; and CURA Hospitality, Inc., a Lehigh Valley based provider of dining services to senior living facilities and retirement communities.

Broadhurst serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees for The Pennsylvania State University and as Chairman of the Board of The Pittsburgh Foundation, as a member of the Board of Directors of National City Corporation in Cleveland, the Allegheny Conference on Community Development, and the National Restaurant Association, as well as the Advisory Council of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute.  He previously served as Chairman of the Board of Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and the United Way of Allegheny County.  

Broadhurst has earned numerous awards for his professional and civic accomplishments.  In 2001, he received an Honorary Doctorate from Robert Morris University.  He also received the Restaurateur of the Year Award and the Keystone Award, both from the Pennsylvania Restaurant Association.  Vectors/Pittsburgh awarded him the Man of the Year Award, as well as the Richard S. Caliguiri Memorial Award for his outstanding community service.  He also received the National Kidney Foundation Gift of Life Corporate Award and the American Red Cross Humanitarian Award.  Broadhurst and his wife received the "For Love of Community" Award from WQED and the Persons of Vision Award from the Pittsburgh Blind Association.

Broadhurst is a native of Titusville, Pennsylvania, where he was inducted into the Titusville High School Sports Hall of Fame in 1986.  Broadhurst and his wife have three sons, Jeff and Mark, graduates of Cornell University, and Brooks, a graduate of Penn State.

At graduation, students and faculty will march to and from the ceremony to the tunes of bagpipes played by Eugene Zimmerman.  Twenty-two of the 42 graduates will participate in the ceremony.

            During the graduation ceremony, new members will be inducted into the Phi Theta Kappa honors fraternity.  In addition, honors will be awarded to students in Humanities, Natural Sciences, Business, Social Sciences, the Physical Therapist Assistant Program, the Part-Time Student Award, and for Outstanding Student Achievement.

            Also this year, President Michael A. Worman will present special Advisory Board Distinguished Service Awards to two members of the UPT Advisory Board.

Following the ceremony, a reception will be held for graduates, honorees, family, faculty, staff and friends in the lobby of the Broadhurst Science Center.  The public is invited to attend both graduation and the reception.

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