Topping, Suzanne M.
Biographical Information
Suzanne Topping was born in Madison, Wisconsin and grew up in Spring Green. She attended La Crosse College and went on to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She met her husband there and married, had five children, and eventually moved to West Lafayette after the loss of her husband in a plane crash. She completed her BA in Child Development at Purdue and went on to earn her Master’s degree in Counseling. Perceiving the need for full-time daycare on campus, Topping organized and ran Purdue’s first professional childcare program. Building it up over the years with very little funding, the program grew and became a success with support from national organizations such as National Education for Young Children (NAEYC). Topping remarried and continued to devote herself to the success of the childcare program at Purdue, and also worked as a counselor for Krannert’s School of Management.