[1] After stints in the phone company and in the Army reserve, Quigg was hired as a development officer at Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania in 1964.
Shortly after his hiring, E. Claiborne Robins Sr, an alumnus and trustee, donated $50 million to the university, at the time the largest gift from a private individual to an American school.
The methodology of capital campaigns, alumni tracking, and organizing resources to engage potential philanthropists were either developed or improved by Quigg and his colleagues.
Quigg was thrust onto the national stage when he was charged with the organization of the 1992 televised presidential debate among George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Ross Perot held at the Robins Center, University of Richmond on Oct 15, 1992.
The event served to bring the University wide national exposure [17][18] He married in 1958 to Lorraine Olsen, a high school sweetheart.