Provided a $1 million gift in 2009 to honor his great-aunt in establishing the Olga Oesterle England Professorship of Information Technology.Funded the establishment of the Germaine Seelye Oesterle Chair in History in honor of his mother in December 2006.“He always said I was the person who persuaded him to return to Indiana: If that is so, it’s the single service I’m most proud of.”Īmong Oesterle’s efforts to give back to Purdue, he: He was a job creator, a community builder, a lifelong advocate for Indiana and a person with an enormous heart for others,” said former Purdue President Mitch Daniels. “I’m not often at a loss for words, but trying to imagine a world without Bill Oesterle leaves me that way. Even after he received an MBA from Harvard Business School and established a successful business career - including as co-founder of consumer ratings leader Angie’s List (now known as Angi) - and planted deep political roots across Indiana, Oesterle remained ever true to the old gold and black.Ĭommitted to pay forward for what Purdue had done for him throughout his life, Oesterle served as a member of the university’s Board of Trustees from 2005-10 and rarely missed an opportunity to support the mission of the alma mater located in his hometown. The youngest of their five children, Bill Oesterle earned an honors degree in economics from Purdue’s School of Management in 1987. Oesterle, served nearly four decades as an agricultural economics professor, and his mother, Germaine Oesterle, stopped just short of gaining a doctoral degree in plant pathology from Cornell University to get married. He grew up in West Lafayette, raised by highly educated parents with strong ties to Purdue University. Oesterle died at his home early Wednesday (May 10) after a five-year battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as ALS. Entrepreneur, marketing genius, community activist and Angie’s List founder William “Bill” Oesterle was destined to be a Boilermaker for life.
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