Russ VanDuine
Inducted October 30, 1993

Russ VanDuine, class of 1981, is a true model of the word student-athlete.

A four-year letterwinner in men's basketball, Van Duine had an illustrious athletic career at Michigan Tech.

He earned first-team all-conference honors twice and team Most Valuable Player honors three times. In MTU's first season in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, he led the league in rebounding and was named conference MVP.

On the academic side, VanDuine finished his work at MTU with a 3.86 grade point average and two degrees a B.S. in eletrical engineering as a B.S. in engineering adminstration.

A first-team Academic All-American, he received one of only 15 NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship grants nationwide and went of to earn a M.B.A. at Winona State University while working full-time at IBM in Rochester, Minn.

VanDuine continues to work at IBM today and is a member of the MTU Alumni Association, The Huskies Club, The Varsity Alumni Club, and is active in his church.