The Campanile Foundation Welcomes New Board Members

Three new board members have been appointed to The Campanile Foundation, the philanthropic auxiliary for San Diego State University.  

Former SDSU running back and future NFL Hall of Famer, Marshall Faulk; former editor of the San Diego Union-Tribune, Karin Winner; and real estate investor Casey Brown will join the board to help lead the university in its first-ever comprehensive fundraising campaign, it was announced at yesterday’s quarterly board meeting.

The Campanile Foundation has already raised more than $200 million toward the campaign that provides much-needed resources for student scholarships, endowed faculty chairs and several other university-wide initiatives.  During the 2009-10 fiscal year, The Campanile Foundation received more than $65 million in philanthropic gifts to support the university.

“These Aztec alumni and long-time San Diegans will provide thoughtful advice and guidance as we approach the public phase of our comprehensive campaign,” said Mary Ruth Carleton, chief executive officer for The Campanile Foundation and vice president of the SDSU Division of University Relations and Development.

The new board members include:

• Marshall Faulk, an Aztec and San Diego Hall of Fame football player and former NFL running back, currently serves as an analyst for NFL Total Access on the NFL Network. The future NFL Hall of Famer also runs The Marshall Faulk Foundation, which has provided more than $1,000,000 in financial assistance as well as hands-on involvement to programs benefiting inner-city youth and underprivileged children in Indianapolis, St. Louis, New Orleans and San Diego. Faulk attended SDSU from 1992–1994.

• Karin Winner, former editor of the San Diego Union-Tribune, is a San Diego native. She worked for the paper for 33 years, beginning as a reporter until she received the top job in 1991, a position she held until 2009.Winner also served as West Coast editor for Women’s Wear Daily and later helped start W Magazine. During her career, she has served as president of the California Society of Newspaper Editors and has sat on several Pulitzer Prize juries. Winner earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Southern California.

• Casey Brown, president of the commercial real estate investment firm of Brown Colarusso LeBeau Inc., is an SDSU alumnus and former Aztec football player. Brown graduated with a bachelor’s degree in real estate and finance in 1986. He is a current member of the San Diego chapter of the Building Owners and Management Association. Brown is a second-generation Aztec; his late father Michael K. Brown played baseball during his college years and graduated from SDSU in 1955. Michael K. Brown later served on the board of SDSU’s Aztec Athletics Foundation.