REG COLLIER, MAJOR PATRON OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE, DIES

Reginald Bruce Collier, a major patron of Bryn Mawr College, died September 15 in New York after a long illness. He was 77.

A native of Massachusetts, Collier attended Phillips Academy Andover for three years before serving in the Marine Corps during World War II. After the war, he enrolled in Haverford College and met his future wife, Lois Miller, who attended Bryn Mawr. The two graduated in 1950 and were married. Reginald Collier went on to obtain an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1952 and began a successful career in advertising, marketing and consumer research. From 1971 until his death, he was chairman of Research Systems Corporation (now RSC the Quality Measurement Company), a consumer research firm.

The Colliers have been longtime, generous benefactors of Bryn Mawr College. They funded the Lois and Reginald Collier Science Library, which opened in 1993, and Cambrian Row, several recently renovated houses on Roberts Road that together form a center for extracurricular student life.

The Colliers' primary residence was in Palm City, Fla.

Besides his wife, Collier leaves two children, Mark Collier and Brynn Collier Helms.

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