The Rotary Club of Damariscotta-Newcastle
ROTARIAN HONORED IN CELEBRATION
Pictured: Doug and MaryJane Tigert
Doug Tigert of Bremen Maine was recently honored at Maine Health Care Association’s Annual Remember Me Celebration in Augusta. This is the day set aside each year to honor and recognize seniors from every corner of the state of Maine, to hear their unique stories and honor their achievements and all they have given of themselves to so many.
Dr. Tigert was chosen as on honoree for his many professional and personal achievements. He was born and raised in St. Catherine’s, Ontario. His parents were both high school teachers and he and his three siblings were expected to go on to college. Douglas struggled in his first year of college at the University of Toronto and transferred to Queens University in Kingston, Ontario where he received his Bachelor’s Degree. He received his Masters at Northwestern in Chicago, and his PHD in marketing from Perdue.
Douglas taught 3 years at the University of Chicago before returning to the University of Toronto as Dean for sixteen years followed by another 16 years at Babson College in Boston where he was the first person to hold the newly established chair of retailing. During his years at Babson as Professor of Retail Marketing he developed a retailing course, started an executive program, mentored young professors and wrote publications. Douglas and a partner, Lawrence Ring, developed a strategic planning and retailing program in 1989. With a few revisions in 2001 and 2011 the program is still in use today. He specialized in consumer research, strategic planning, financial and productivity analysis in the retailing arena. His research covered a myriad of retailing sectors which took him to thirty-nine countries.
Doug joined the Damariscotta-Newcastle Maine Rotary on April 16, 2002. While a member of the club’s International Committee and making a trip to Thailand, he became involved with the Clean Drinking Water for Schools Program. He describes it as being a good feeling when you can help financially support and see students become healthier and able to attend school. A second project he worked on was a crèche, an addition that would handle 35 students on an existing school in South Africa. While on his yearly seminar trip to South Africa, he was able to visit the school and was pleased to see the difference it made in the life of the students.
In his many travels, Doug always tried to attend local Rotary meetings, learning about their helping efforts and bringing back ideas for fundraising events.