Students will be texting and Tweeting that message next Spring, when the doors open to Olin’s new Knight and Bauer Halls where the Frick Forum is located. The multi-purpose, three-story amphitheatre at the heart of the new building complex is being named in honor of generous benefactors, Robert and Barbara Frick. The Fricks have made a $5 million commitment to support the expansion project.

This gift and associated challenges to other donors are the most recent gifts from Bob, BS’60, MBA’62, and Barbara Frick to Washington University. Other important gifts from the Fricks include: the establishment of the Robert and Barbara Frick Professorship in Business, held by Todd R. Zenger, PhD, a specialist in organization and strategy; and named annual scholarships for Olin students. In addition, the Fricks are life patrons of the university’s William Greenleaf Eliot Society.

Bob Frick credits his many personal and professional successes in life in part to great teachers and mentors at his alma mater. The St. Louis native received a full scholarship and graduated in 1960 with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering. Another full-tuition scholarship allowed him to earn his master’s in business administration two years later. While at WUSTL, he joined the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) and Beta Theta Pi fraternity.

Read more about the Fricks and their support of Wash U in Olin News.