Your gift at the MVP level provides a student-athlete with a year’s worth of the textbooks and supplemental materials needed to succeed in the classroom.
Your gift at the Champion level provides a student-athlete with 100 percent of the academic support, room and board, and scholarship costs for one year.
*Benefits chart is subject to change
*Req: means that requests will be taken for these items.
Total number of men’s basketball season tickets in the lower arena/upper preferred areas that a member can purchase.
*Members must be All-American level or above for access to lower arena tickets.
Ticket request limits may vary based upon allotment and location. Should demand exceed supply, priority allocation will be given to the numbers listed above at the respective levels.
All gifts to the John Purdue Club count towards the $1,000 annual donation requirement for President’s Council membership.
JPC members at the All-American level and above are invited to attend the complimentary Old Gold & Black Dinner the Friday before the first home football game of the season to kick off the new sports season. This is our most popular event of the year.
Ticket request limits may vary based upon allotment and location. Should demand exceed supply, priority allocation will be given to the numbers listed above at the respective levels.
JPC members at the Olympian level and above are invited to attend the Athletics Director Dinner hosted by Mike Bobinski. The dinner features an open bar cocktail hour with hors d’oeuvres and a gourmet meal.
Parking request limits may vary based upon allotment and location. Should demand exceed supply, priority allocation will be given to the numbers listed above at the respective levels.
Get some of the same gear that our coaches and staff wear, some of which may not be available in stores.
*Please note: There has been a slight increase in membership pricing for the Champion and Brees Leadership levels. While tuition has remained frozen at Purdue, cost of living has gone up and the NCAA has instituted additional monetary academic awards for student-athletes. Please make note of this change when renewing your John Purdue Club membership for the 2024-25 year.
Patsy earned a bachelor’s degree in food and nutrition in business from Purdue in 1969, in addition to an MBA in food marketing from Michigan State University in 1970. She retired from Kraft Foods in 2006 after 36 years in corporate food marketing and marketing communications management.
A community volunteer, Patsy serves on the Women’s Fund of Central Indiana Advisory Board and the Purdue College of Health and Human Sciences Dean’s Leadership Council, in addition to the President’s Council Advisory Board. She is a former member of the Health and Human Sciences Alumni Board. Patsy held several offices from 2006 through 2013, including president and treasurer. She serves her community’s Discover Indianapolis Club in Fishers, holding several leadership roles for over 10 years.
Patsy has received several honors, including the Purdue University Nutrition Science Department Hall of Fame recipient in 2009 and the Purdue University College of Health and Human Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award in 2016. She also received the college’s Gold and Black Award in 2016, an honor reserved for donors who have moved the college forward by committing exceptional financial resources.
In addition to endowing two scholarships, the Patsy J. Mellott Scholarship and Patsy J. Mellott HHS Scholarship, she established the Patsy J. Mellott Teaching Innovation Award in the College of Health and Human Sciences in 2013. In 2015, she endowed the Patsy J. Mellott Women’s Tennis Coach Performance Award. She is a lead donor in the Christine M. Ladisch Faculty Leadership Award and the Purdue Women’s Network Virginia C. Meredith Scholarship for the College of Health and Human Sciences.
