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The Man Behind the Name Alumnus Bill Eisiminger embraces fitness center that bears his name Bill Eisiminger at his home in Seattle.
During a workout at the William F. Eisiminger Fitness Center, you have to feel gratitude toward the person whose name is on the building. When Bill Eisiminger, ’67, ’73 MEd, toured the gleaming new facility, he said, “This is the realization of a dream not just for me but for our students.” The dynamic donor and member of the Board of Regents is both bold and playful, a lot like the physical education coach he was in the late 1960s and early ’70s for elementary students at Holy Rosary School in West Seattle. Long before he entered SU in the early 1960s, Eisiminger watched the campus and surrounding neighborhood go through plenty of changes. He grew up just steps from campus in a Madison Street home that’s now the site of the International House of Pancakes. Today, he lives not far from the university in a lively high-rise retirement community. It’s here that Eisiminger reaches into one of his closets so he can share a point of tremendous pride—a copy of an author-autographed book, Jimi Hendrix, Voices From Home by Mary Willix. He flips through the hardback until he can find the pages that highlight one of his prized youthful memories. An accomplished bass and saxophone player and singer, Eisiminger got to know the legendary Hendrix in English class at Seattle’s Garfield High School. They frequently talked music and jammed together with other young musicians.
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For more information on the fitness center and to purchase a membership (alumni memberships available quarterly or annually), visit www.seattleu.edu/recreation.
As an educator, he taught PE, science and reading at Holy Rosary for five years and became a vice principal there before he returned to SU to get his master’s in education in 1973. He then became principal at Holy Family Parish School in Kirkland. By 1980, he had it in mind to take a year off from his work at Holy Family. He started to buy real estate and he purchased so much residential and commercial property that he found he couldn’t straddle two careers. Soon Eisiminger became president and owner of Barcelona Enterprises Inc. Eisiminger says he has always had a passion for athletics and fitness and recognized the aging Connolly Center just wasn’t serving the fitness needs of today’s students.
“This is the realization of a dream not just for me but for our students.” Bill Eisiminger, ’67, ’73, commenting on the new fitness center “It definitely was time,” he says, describing his motivation for contributing to the fitness center. Then, nearly three years ago, his life took a big turn. His first notion something was wrong came when he regained consciousness after he ran into a half dozen parked vehicles near campus. Eisiminger had no clue what happened. The next morning he was at the Chapel of St. Ignatius for Mass and a Regents meeting and was having trouble organizing his thoughts and putting words together. Before long, he was in an ambulance on the way to Swedish Medical Center. Doctors told him he suffered a series of seven strokes. The way Eisiminger sees it, one life ended and another began that day. Today, he’s on the road to recovery. Five days a week he is in physical therapy, hopeful about regaining his strength and mobility. And he’s looking forward to using the fitness center soon. Read more about Bill and see photos from the opening at www.seattleu.edu/magazine.
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SU Magazine Winter 2011 / 19
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