Day of Salisbury, Md., a 1977 alumnus of the college, is chief executive officer of Perdue Farms

McDaniel College has named Randy Day of Salisbury, Md.,to its board of trustees.

Day is the chief executive officer of Perdue Farms and serves on the company’s board of directors. He is the fourth CEO in the company’s 100-year history and the second who is not a member of the Perdue family.

Since joining Perdue Farms in 1980, Day has held various positions of increasing responsibility in the company’s two operating divisions, Perdue Foods and Perdue AgriBusiness. He began his career in distribution and sales in foods before advancing into executive level positions in quality assurance, product development and logistics.

A native of the Eastern Shore of Maryland and a graduate of Easton High School, he earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from McDaniel (formerly Western Maryland) College in 1977 and a master’s degree in poultry nutrition from the University of Maryland, College Park. He completed the advanced management program at Harvard Business School.

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McDaniel College, founded in 1867 and nationally recognized as one of 40 “Colleges That Change Lives,” is a four-year, independent college of the liberal arts and sciences offering more than 70 undergraduate programs of study, including dual and student-designed majors, plus 25 highly regarded graduate programs. Its personalized, interdisciplinary, global curriculum and student-faculty collaboration develop the unique potential in every student. A diverse, student-centered community of 1,600 undergraduates and 1,400 graduate students, McDaniel offers access to the resources of Baltimore and Washington, D.C., and is the only American collegewith a European campus in Budapest, Hungary. www.mcdaniel.edu