Son of James and Catherine Decker Lardner. Married Marion White Lardner in 1954. In the 60's he helped establish Project NOW. He is survived by his wife and four children. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Sarah.
QC Times - Wednesday - August 15, 2007
Peter Lardner, Rock Island, Illinois, died Tuesday afternoon, August 14, 2007, in his home. He was 75 years old. Peter dealt with prostate cancer after being diagnosed in 1998. He chose to accept it, and work around it and he did. A visitation will be held on Thursday, August 16, starting at 4:00 p.m. followed by a prayer service at 7:00 p.m. at the Wheelan-Pressly Funeral Home, 3030 7th Ave., Rock Island. A memorial service will be held at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Bettendorf, on August 30 at 1 p.m., followed by a public reception to which all are welcome at the Figge Art Museum beginning at 3 p.m. In lieu of flowers please send donations to Quad City Scholars, or to the Dual Enrollment Program at Black Hawk College. Memorials in honor of Peter may be sent to the Figge Art Museum, the Quad City Botanical Center or to a charity of your choice.
Son of James and Catherine Decker Lardner, Peter was born in Davenport, Iowa, the youngest of three brothers, all of whom chose to stay in the Quad City area and raise their children. Peter grew up in Moline, Illinois, and after his marriage to Marion (White) Lardner in 1954, lived and worked and raised his family in Rock Island, Illinois.
Peter attended Logan School, Coolidge Junior High School and graduated from St. Ambrose Academy in Davenport. He went to the University of Michigan and graduated from the College of Engineering. While at Michigan, Peter was a member of the Sigma Phi Society and Michigamwa, a senior society "honoring 25 proven student leaders each year from the many diverse corners of campus who have demonstrated outstanding leadership, impeccable character, and a deep and enduring commitment to the University of Michigan." The values needed to become a member "included leadership, character, passion, commitment, diversity and humility" and its purpose was "to Fight Like Hell for Michigan."
After graduating from the university, Peter worked a short time in 1954 for Cutler-Hammer, Milwaukee, until he was drafted into the U.S. Army. Following military service in Tokyo, he joined the H.H. Cleaveland Agency, Rock Island, where he worked for four years. In 1960, he went to work at Bituminous Insurance Companies, retiring there as chairman in 2001. He served on the board of Old Republic International from 1985 when Bituminous merged with Old Republic International until August, 2007. During his career, Lardner was active in national insurance industry organizations.
In addition to business activities, community service was center to Peter's life. At an early age, Peter's father set the pace that "to whom much has been given much must be returned." Peter's record of service with community-empowerment, educational, and cultural organizations reflects his commitment to that ethic.
During Model Cities times in the sixties, Peter helped establish Project Now as an agency able to reach into the community to empower people to secure adequate housing and food, to earn an education, and to achieve success.
Education for many was key to Peter's very being. Most recently, Peter was active in the Quad Cities Scholars program. Through mentoring and scholarship opportunities, Quad Cities Scholars supports minority high-school students to gain admission to college. In the 1970s, Peter served on what was then known as the Board of Governors for the State of Illinois, with responsibility for policy at five universities (Chicago State University, Governor's State University, Eastern Illinois University, and Northeastern Illinois University, and Western Illinois University).
Peter's longest involvement with education was at Black Hawk College. Peter served as a trustee of Black Hawk College from 1964 to 1972, and was chair of the board from 1970 to 1972. In 2005, he was named a "trustee emeritus" by the board. Peter helped to shape the college's growth from a small local institution to what has become a multi-campus, regional resource helping all kinds of students achieve their goals. Peter relished working with others to address the college's fundamental questions: Where should the campus be? What is the college's mission? For whom is it important? Through the politics and negotiations, Peter's aim was to keep the focus on how Black Hawk College could best provide educational opportunities to people who, for whatever reason, had been locked out of higher education.
From 2003, Peter was an active participant in the development and governance of the Figge Art Museum. Peter was an officer of the museum's Regional Board of Trustees, a new board that formed as the new riverfront building was being built. He was also a member of the Figge Art Museum Foundation. This was a separate board charged with raising the money and building the building. Finally, Peter chaired the committee to select a new director in 2006. The new director is expected to be seated in the next two weeks.
The Figge Art Museum reflects Peter's dream that the art museum could become a teaching institution for all ages and all people. He envisioned as a sign of its success, a ring of yellow school buses on the streets of Davenport, bringing school children from near and far. Public school children would be welcomed with open arms, Head Start children, day-care children, middle school children whose ideas burst within them, high school students, families with children, all welcomed with open arms to the Figge, where each child would have a chance to see, to connect with a bigger world, to be encouraged to believe in their own good ideas, and to broaden their horizons through art. Over half the space at the Figge Art Museum is dedicated to education.
Three pairs of rose-colored glasses are on Peter's desk. Given to him by three different institutions on three different occasions, they are tokens of Peter's capacity to dream, his ongoing wish to make a difference, and his ability and energy to make good things happen. Curious, service-oriented, guided by a passion for honesty and an optimism about people's capacaity to do good things, Peter dedicated his life to teaching, to sharing, to putting back in the pot for the good of all.
Preceded in death by a daughter, Sarah, he is survived by his wife, Marion, and four children; Elisabeth Lardner and her husband Jim Klein and their sons Will and Ned; Emily Lardner and her partner Amando Barzola-Hidalgo and her three children, Sam, Becky, and Eliza Jessup; Ted Lardner and his wife Helen and their two children Isabel and Caleb; and Peter Lardner and his wife Chris and their three children Ethan, Linnea and Jacob; and brothers James and Decker.
QC Times - Wednesday - August 15, 2007
Peter Lardner, Rock Island, Illinois, died Tuesday afternoon, August 14, 2007, in his home. He was 75 years old. Peter dealt with prostate cancer after being diagnosed in 1998. He chose to accept it, and work around it and he did. A visitation will be held on Thursday, August 16, starting at 4:00 p.m. followed by a prayer service at 7:00 p.m. at the Wheelan-Pressly Funeral Home, 3030 7th Ave., Rock Island. A memorial service will be held at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Bettendorf, on August 30 at 1 p.m., followed by a public reception to which all are welcome at the Figge Art Museum beginning at 3 p.m. In lieu of flowers please send donations to Quad City Scholars, or to the Dual Enrollment Program at Black Hawk College. Memorials in honor of Peter may be sent to the Figge Art Museum, the Quad City Botanical Center or to a charity of your choice.
Son of James and Catherine Decker Lardner, Peter was born in Davenport, Iowa, the youngest of three brothers, all of whom chose to stay in the Quad City area and raise their children. Peter grew up in Moline, Illinois, and after his marriage to Marion (White) Lardner in 1954, lived and worked and raised his family in Rock Island, Illinois.
Peter attended Logan School, Coolidge Junior High School and graduated from St. Ambrose Academy in Davenport. He went to the University of Michigan and graduated from the College of Engineering. While at Michigan, Peter was a member of the Sigma Phi Society and Michigamwa, a senior society "honoring 25 proven student leaders each year from the many diverse corners of campus who have demonstrated outstanding leadership, impeccable character, and a deep and enduring commitment to the University of Michigan." The values needed to become a member "included leadership, character, passion, commitment, diversity and humility" and its purpose was "to Fight Like Hell for Michigan."
After graduating from the university, Peter worked a short time in 1954 for Cutler-Hammer, Milwaukee, until he was drafted into the U.S. Army. Following military service in Tokyo, he joined the H.H. Cleaveland Agency, Rock Island, where he worked for four years. In 1960, he went to work at Bituminous Insurance Companies, retiring there as chairman in 2001. He served on the board of Old Republic International from 1985 when Bituminous merged with Old Republic International until August, 2007. During his career, Lardner was active in national insurance industry organizations.
In addition to business activities, community service was center to Peter's life. At an early age, Peter's father set the pace that "to whom much has been given much must be returned." Peter's record of service with community-empowerment, educational, and cultural organizations reflects his commitment to that ethic.
During Model Cities times in the sixties, Peter helped establish Project Now as an agency able to reach into the community to empower people to secure adequate housing and food, to earn an education, and to achieve success.
Education for many was key to Peter's very being. Most recently, Peter was active in the Quad Cities Scholars program. Through mentoring and scholarship opportunities, Quad Cities Scholars supports minority high-school students to gain admission to college. In the 1970s, Peter served on what was then known as the Board of Governors for the State of Illinois, with responsibility for policy at five universities (Chicago State University, Governor's State University, Eastern Illinois University, and Northeastern Illinois University, and Western Illinois University).
Peter's longest involvement with education was at Black Hawk College. Peter served as a trustee of Black Hawk College from 1964 to 1972, and was chair of the board from 1970 to 1972. In 2005, he was named a "trustee emeritus" by the board. Peter helped to shape the college's growth from a small local institution to what has become a multi-campus, regional resource helping all kinds of students achieve their goals. Peter relished working with others to address the college's fundamental questions: Where should the campus be? What is the college's mission? For whom is it important? Through the politics and negotiations, Peter's aim was to keep the focus on how Black Hawk College could best provide educational opportunities to people who, for whatever reason, had been locked out of higher education.
From 2003, Peter was an active participant in the development and governance of the Figge Art Museum. Peter was an officer of the museum's Regional Board of Trustees, a new board that formed as the new riverfront building was being built. He was also a member of the Figge Art Museum Foundation. This was a separate board charged with raising the money and building the building. Finally, Peter chaired the committee to select a new director in 2006. The new director is expected to be seated in the next two weeks.
The Figge Art Museum reflects Peter's dream that the art museum could become a teaching institution for all ages and all people. He envisioned as a sign of its success, a ring of yellow school buses on the streets of Davenport, bringing school children from near and far. Public school children would be welcomed with open arms, Head Start children, day-care children, middle school children whose ideas burst within them, high school students, families with children, all welcomed with open arms to the Figge, where each child would have a chance to see, to connect with a bigger world, to be encouraged to believe in their own good ideas, and to broaden their horizons through art. Over half the space at the Figge Art Museum is dedicated to education.
Three pairs of rose-colored glasses are on Peter's desk. Given to him by three different institutions on three different occasions, they are tokens of Peter's capacity to dream, his ongoing wish to make a difference, and his ability and energy to make good things happen. Curious, service-oriented, guided by a passion for honesty and an optimism about people's capacaity to do good things, Peter dedicated his life to teaching, to sharing, to putting back in the pot for the good of all.
Preceded in death by a daughter, Sarah, he is survived by his wife, Marion, and four children; Elisabeth Lardner and her husband Jim Klein and their sons Will and Ned; Emily Lardner and her partner Amando Barzola-Hidalgo and her three children, Sam, Becky, and Eliza Jessup; Ted Lardner and his wife Helen and their two children Isabel and Caleb; and Peter Lardner and his wife Chris and their three children Ethan, Linnea and Jacob; and brothers James and Decker.
Son of James and Catherine Decker Lardner. Married Marion White Lardner in 1954. In the 60's he helped establish Project NOW. He is survived by his wife and four children. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Sarah.
QC Times - Wednesday - August 15, 2007
Peter Lardner, Rock Island, Illinois, died Tuesday afternoon, August 14, 2007, in his home. He was 75 years old. Peter dealt with prostate cancer after being diagnosed in 1998. He chose to accept it, and work around it and he did. A visitation will be held on Thursday, August 16, starting at 4:00 p.m. followed by a prayer service at 7:00 p.m. at the Wheelan-Pressly Funeral Home, 3030 7th Ave., Rock Island. A memorial service will be held at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Bettendorf, on August 30 at 1 p.m., followed by a public reception to which all are welcome at the Figge Art Museum beginning at 3 p.m. In lieu of flowers please send donations to Quad City Scholars, or to the Dual Enrollment Program at Black Hawk College. Memorials in honor of Peter may be sent to the Figge Art Museum, the Quad City Botanical Center or to a charity of your choice.
Son of James and Catherine Decker Lardner, Peter was born in Davenport, Iowa, the youngest of three brothers, all of whom chose to stay in the Quad City area and raise their children. Peter grew up in Moline, Illinois, and after his marriage to Marion (White) Lardner in 1954, lived and worked and raised his family in Rock Island, Illinois.
Peter attended Logan School, Coolidge Junior High School and graduated from St. Ambrose Academy in Davenport. He went to the University of Michigan and graduated from the College of Engineering. While at Michigan, Peter was a member of the Sigma Phi Society and Michigamwa, a senior society "honoring 25 proven student leaders each year from the many diverse corners of campus who have demonstrated outstanding leadership, impeccable character, and a deep and enduring commitment to the University of Michigan." The values needed to become a member "included leadership, character, passion, commitment, diversity and humility" and its purpose was "to Fight Like Hell for Michigan."
After graduating from the university, Peter worked a short time in 1954 for Cutler-Hammer, Milwaukee, until he was drafted into the U.S. Army. Following military service in Tokyo, he joined the H.H. Cleaveland Agency, Rock Island, where he worked for four years. In 1960, he went to work at Bituminous Insurance Companies, retiring there as chairman in 2001. He served on the board of Old Republic International from 1985 when Bituminous merged with Old Republic International until August, 2007. During his career, Lardner was active in national insurance industry organizations.
In addition to business activities, community service was center to Peter's life. At an early age, Peter's father set the pace that "to whom much has been given much must be returned." Peter's record of service with community-empowerment, educational, and cultural organizations reflects his commitment to that ethic.
During Model Cities times in the sixties, Peter helped establish Project Now as an agency able to reach into the community to empower people to secure adequate housing and food, to earn an education, and to achieve success.
Education for many was key to Peter's very being. Most recently, Peter was active in the Quad Cities Scholars program. Through mentoring and scholarship opportunities, Quad Cities Scholars supports minority high-school students to gain admission to college. In the 1970s, Peter served on what was then known as the Board of Governors for the State of Illinois, with responsibility for policy at five universities (Chicago State University, Governor's State University, Eastern Illinois University, and Northeastern Illinois University, and Western Illinois University).
Peter's longest involvement with education was at Black Hawk College. Peter served as a trustee of Black Hawk College from 1964 to 1972, and was chair of the board from 1970 to 1972. In 2005, he was named a "trustee emeritus" by the board. Peter helped to shape the college's growth from a small local institution to what has become a multi-campus, regional resource helping all kinds of students achieve their goals. Peter relished working with others to address the college's fundamental questions: Where should the campus be? What is the college's mission? For whom is it important? Through the politics and negotiations, Peter's aim was to keep the focus on how Black Hawk College could best provide educational opportunities to people who, for whatever reason, had been locked out of higher education.
From 2003, Peter was an active participant in the development and governance of the Figge Art Museum. Peter was an officer of the museum's Regional Board of Trustees, a new board that formed as the new riverfront building was being built. He was also a member of the Figge Art Museum Foundation. This was a separate board charged with raising the money and building the building. Finally, Peter chaired the committee to select a new director in 2006. The new director is expected to be seated in the next two weeks.
The Figge Art Museum reflects Peter's dream that the art museum could become a teaching institution for all ages and all people. He envisioned as a sign of its success, a ring of yellow school buses on the streets of Davenport, bringing school children from near and far. Public school children would be welcomed with open arms, Head Start children, day-care children, middle school children whose ideas burst within them, high school students, families with children, all welcomed with open arms to the Figge, where each child would have a chance to see, to connect with a bigger world, to be encouraged to believe in their own good ideas, and to broaden their horizons through art. Over half the space at the Figge Art Museum is dedicated to education.
Three pairs of rose-colored glasses are on Peter's desk. Given to him by three different institutions on three different occasions, they are tokens of Peter's capacity to dream, his ongoing wish to make a difference, and his ability and energy to make good things happen. Curious, service-oriented, guided by a passion for honesty and an optimism about people's capacaity to do good things, Peter dedicated his life to teaching, to sharing, to putting back in the pot for the good of all.
Preceded in death by a daughter, Sarah, he is survived by his wife, Marion, and four children; Elisabeth Lardner and her husband Jim Klein and their sons Will and Ned; Emily Lardner and her partner Amando Barzola-Hidalgo and her three children, Sam, Becky, and Eliza Jessup; Ted Lardner and his wife Helen and their two children Isabel and Caleb; and Peter Lardner and his wife Chris and their three children Ethan, Linnea and Jacob; and brothers James and Decker.
QC Times - Wednesday - August 15, 2007
Peter Lardner, Rock Island, Illinois, died Tuesday afternoon, August 14, 2007, in his home. He was 75 years old. Peter dealt with prostate cancer after being diagnosed in 1998. He chose to accept it, and work around it and he did. A visitation will be held on Thursday, August 16, starting at 4:00 p.m. followed by a prayer service at 7:00 p.m. at the Wheelan-Pressly Funeral Home, 3030 7th Ave., Rock Island. A memorial service will be held at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Bettendorf, on August 30 at 1 p.m., followed by a public reception to which all are welcome at the Figge Art Museum beginning at 3 p.m. In lieu of flowers please send donations to Quad City Scholars, or to the Dual Enrollment Program at Black Hawk College. Memorials in honor of Peter may be sent to the Figge Art Museum, the Quad City Botanical Center or to a charity of your choice.
Son of James and Catherine Decker Lardner, Peter was born in Davenport, Iowa, the youngest of three brothers, all of whom chose to stay in the Quad City area and raise their children. Peter grew up in Moline, Illinois, and after his marriage to Marion (White) Lardner in 1954, lived and worked and raised his family in Rock Island, Illinois.
Peter attended Logan School, Coolidge Junior High School and graduated from St. Ambrose Academy in Davenport. He went to the University of Michigan and graduated from the College of Engineering. While at Michigan, Peter was a member of the Sigma Phi Society and Michigamwa, a senior society "honoring 25 proven student leaders each year from the many diverse corners of campus who have demonstrated outstanding leadership, impeccable character, and a deep and enduring commitment to the University of Michigan." The values needed to become a member "included leadership, character, passion, commitment, diversity and humility" and its purpose was "to Fight Like Hell for Michigan."
After graduating from the university, Peter worked a short time in 1954 for Cutler-Hammer, Milwaukee, until he was drafted into the U.S. Army. Following military service in Tokyo, he joined the H.H. Cleaveland Agency, Rock Island, where he worked for four years. In 1960, he went to work at Bituminous Insurance Companies, retiring there as chairman in 2001. He served on the board of Old Republic International from 1985 when Bituminous merged with Old Republic International until August, 2007. During his career, Lardner was active in national insurance industry organizations.
In addition to business activities, community service was center to Peter's life. At an early age, Peter's father set the pace that "to whom much has been given much must be returned." Peter's record of service with community-empowerment, educational, and cultural organizations reflects his commitment to that ethic.
During Model Cities times in the sixties, Peter helped establish Project Now as an agency able to reach into the community to empower people to secure adequate housing and food, to earn an education, and to achieve success.
Education for many was key to Peter's very being. Most recently, Peter was active in the Quad Cities Scholars program. Through mentoring and scholarship opportunities, Quad Cities Scholars supports minority high-school students to gain admission to college. In the 1970s, Peter served on what was then known as the Board of Governors for the State of Illinois, with responsibility for policy at five universities (Chicago State University, Governor's State University, Eastern Illinois University, and Northeastern Illinois University, and Western Illinois University).
Peter's longest involvement with education was at Black Hawk College. Peter served as a trustee of Black Hawk College from 1964 to 1972, and was chair of the board from 1970 to 1972. In 2005, he was named a "trustee emeritus" by the board. Peter helped to shape the college's growth from a small local institution to what has become a multi-campus, regional resource helping all kinds of students achieve their goals. Peter relished working with others to address the college's fundamental questions: Where should the campus be? What is the college's mission? For whom is it important? Through the politics and negotiations, Peter's aim was to keep the focus on how Black Hawk College could best provide educational opportunities to people who, for whatever reason, had been locked out of higher education.
From 2003, Peter was an active participant in the development and governance of the Figge Art Museum. Peter was an officer of the museum's Regional Board of Trustees, a new board that formed as the new riverfront building was being built. He was also a member of the Figge Art Museum Foundation. This was a separate board charged with raising the money and building the building. Finally, Peter chaired the committee to select a new director in 2006. The new director is expected to be seated in the next two weeks.
The Figge Art Museum reflects Peter's dream that the art museum could become a teaching institution for all ages and all people. He envisioned as a sign of its success, a ring of yellow school buses on the streets of Davenport, bringing school children from near and far. Public school children would be welcomed with open arms, Head Start children, day-care children, middle school children whose ideas burst within them, high school students, families with children, all welcomed with open arms to the Figge, where each child would have a chance to see, to connect with a bigger world, to be encouraged to believe in their own good ideas, and to broaden their horizons through art. Over half the space at the Figge Art Museum is dedicated to education.
Three pairs of rose-colored glasses are on Peter's desk. Given to him by three different institutions on three different occasions, they are tokens of Peter's capacity to dream, his ongoing wish to make a difference, and his ability and energy to make good things happen. Curious, service-oriented, guided by a passion for honesty and an optimism about people's capacaity to do good things, Peter dedicated his life to teaching, to sharing, to putting back in the pot for the good of all.
Preceded in death by a daughter, Sarah, he is survived by his wife, Marion, and four children; Elisabeth Lardner and her husband Jim Klein and their sons Will and Ned; Emily Lardner and her partner Amando Barzola-Hidalgo and her three children, Sam, Becky, and Eliza Jessup; Ted Lardner and his wife Helen and their two children Isabel and Caleb; and Peter Lardner and his wife Chris and their three children Ethan, Linnea and Jacob; and brothers James and Decker.
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