Vince Trosino (MS 1973) was one of several individuals inducted into the College of Arts and Sciences Class of 2006 Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony was held on February 18, 2006 in the Old Main Room in the Bone Student Center; a reception for all of the inductees was held the previous day. Pictured to the left are Mrs. and Mr. Trosino and Dean Gary Olson of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Mr. Trosino is the retired president, vice chair of the board, and chief operating office of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company in Bloomington, IL. After earning a bachelor's degree in psychology from Villanova University in 1962, he began his career with State Farm as a management development trainee at the company's Pennsylvania office. A series of promotions brought him to corporate headquarters in Bloomington, where he worked and earned his master's degree from Illinois State in psychology.

In 1981, he was elected regional vice president for the northeastern region, which is headquartered in Wayne, NJ. In 1986, he returned to Bloomington to serve as vice president in the president's office. He was elected executive vice president in 1987, chief operating officer in 1991, vice chair of the board in 1994, and president in 1998. In 1998, Mr. Trosino was elected chair of the Board of Trustees of the American Institute for CPCU, the Insurance Institute of America, and the Insurance Institute for Applied Ethics. He is also a member of the Brookings Institution Board of Trustees, Vulcan Materials Company Board of Directors, and past chair of the advisory board of the Children's Foundation of McLean County.

In 1992, he was appointed by then-Governor Jim Edgar to serve on the State Judicial Inquiry Board. He also served on the Illinois State University Foundation Board from 1989-1997 and was chair of the board from 1993-1997. In 1992, he received an Achievement award from the Hugh O'Brien Youth Foundation of America, and in 1994, he received the Illinois State University Alumni Achievement Award. In 2000, he was awarded the distinguished alumni medallion from the College of Liberal Arts at Villanova University, and in 2001 he received the Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Humanitarian Award in Chicago.