HILLSDALE, Mich. — Tobias W. Buck, of Warsaw, was elected to the Board of Trustees of Hillsdale College, a private classical liberal arts college in south-central Michigan.
Buck serves as the founder, chairman, president, and CEO of Paragon Medical and its 11 global facilities.
“Since its founding, Hillsdale’s Board of Trustees have helped guide and support the administration in its devotion to providing a rigorous, classical liberal arts education,” said Rich Péwé, chief administrative officer of Hillsdale College. “We are truly grateful for his support.”
“I am proud to join Hillsdale College’s Board of Trustees,” Buck said. “I look forward to serving this great College and its students, faculty and staff members.”
Buck joins many distinguished men and women who have served on the board since the college’s former president, Edmund Fairfield, became its first chairman in 1853, according to a news release.
Buck is a graduate of Purdue University and The Harvard Executive Development Program, as well as the MIT Birthing of Giants program.
In 1998 and 2004, Ernst & Young named him Indiana’s Entrepreneur of the Year for small manufacturing firms. Buck was named the 2006 Man of the Year by the Warsaw Kosciusko County Chamber of Commerce.
He and his wife have been married for 39 years and have four children and nine grandchildren.
