Newsletter
of the Washington College Department of Business Management |
Spring
2000
Power
lunch series taps Buck-Behney
Betty Buck-Behney, president of Buck Distributing Company, Inc.,
spoke at Washington College before an invited audience of business
management students and faculty on October 28th, 1999, as part
of the department’s Power Lunch series. Buck-Behney is president
and CEO of Buck Distributing Co., which distributes Miller products
in the Maryland counties of Prince George’s, Charles, Anne
Arundel, and Calvert. The company, one of Miller Brewing Co.’s
largest distributors, was founded by Buck-Behney’s grandfather
over a half-century ag
o, and has been family-owned
and -operated since then.
Buck-Behney, whose son Daniel is a sophomore at Washington College,
is one of only a handful of women in the United States running
Miller distributorships. In addition, when she became Buck’s
CEO she was the youngest CEO of a Miller distributor in the United
States. She was named Young Washingtonian of the Year in 1995.
Buck-Behney spoke to students about her experiences growing up
in a family-owned business, the challenges she has faced as a
woman in a traditionally male field, and the efforts she has
led to increase the use of technology in Buck Distributing’s
operations.
The Power Lunch series brings distinguished business and government
leaders to Washington College to meet with business management
students. Besides Buck-Behney, recent speakers have included
former Treasury Department Secretary Nicholas Brady and Shana
Rimel Conron, Chairman and CEO of Citibank Delaware.•