Longtime Linfield donor resigns from board, ‘appalled’ by firing of professor who held endowed chair in her name Updated 10:53 PM; Today 10:13 PM “Suppressing voices of dissent only causes further damage,” Ronni Lacroute wrote to the board. “I also cannot accept the administration’s claims that there are no problems anymore related to sexual misconduct or student safety on campus.”LC- Facebook Share Longtime Linfield University trustee Ronni Lacroute, who endowed a Shakespeare studies chair to keep English professor Daniel Pollack-Pelzner at the private college, resigned Sunday from the board in protest of his abrupt firing. In a letter to Linfield’s board, president and provost, Lacroute wrote that she could no longer serve “in good conscience” as a trustee.