UNIVERSITY
Art history to receive $1.2 million
j Bequest left by late professor
Marion Dean Ross, 'Oregon's
dean of architectural history’
By Anne Scott
Emerald Contributor
The University's art history department will re
reive a SI 2 million endowment from the estate
of a former professor. University President Myles
Brand announced Tuesday
The endowment is from the estate.of Marlon
Dean Ross, widely regarded as Oregon's "dean of
an hde< turul history " Ross died in April 1'1‘H
"This bequest is the nation's largest private en
dowment for architecture library collections
(and will ix>) available to every hods. Brand said
at a press i onferem a
The Ix-qurst will eslahlish a professorship, i re
ate a new junior faculty position and enable the
library to compete for rare items that otherwise
would he too expensive
Jeffrey Hiirwil, head of the art history depart
ment, said although the endowment is generous.
"Measure *i is coming at us like a freight train
threatening to weaken all the components of ar
chitecture and art history We're not out of the
woods vet."
Almost nine percent of University students list
a major from the school, which offers programs in
art history, architecture, environmental design
arts management, fine and applied arts, and plan
ning, public policy and management, according
to a press release
Hurwit said he expects tlie endowment to yield
alxmt S5B.0CM) annually to help pav for acquisi
tion of library materials and St><»,(H>0 lor professor
salaries He said students will now have the op
portunity ami resources to study art history they
did not have before.
The department will use some of the money to
buy original editions of rare and out-of print
monographs, photographs, architectural drawings
and other materials
One of the items considered is the Vitruvius, a
rare ixiok of architecture The collection will also
reflect Ross' interest in Pan tic Northwest archi
tecture and anthropology, town-planning and the
history of Ameru an. European, Islamic and Latin
American an hiteclure
In addition, a nationwide search will slart in
February to find a junior faculty member
Leland Roth, a professor of art history, will he
the first io chair the endowment A faculty mem
ber since 197H, Roth is "an ideal choice" for the
‘This bequest is the nation’s
largest private endowment for
architecture library collections
... iand will be) available to
everybody.’
Myles Brand
( half. Hiirwit said. 'Imr ause his and
teaching interests greatly overlap vs th those of
Marion Koss
As endowment < hairman Kbtii s responsibih
Ill'S will include developing (lew • .nirses and
overseeing research projor is In err luii i iur.il his
tors
Marion Koss joined the far ultv in l‘>4~ and re
tired in 1W/H, serving as head of (lie art history
department tor the Iasi 1 ri years Me w is "' when
lie died Iasi year
He was instrumental in getting several campus
buildings listed m the Historii Kegistrv and began
preservation efforts in Jar ksonv die (ire In lottl.
the Historic I’reserv.athin League of Oregon lion
ored Koss wiifi the Distinguished Preservationist
Award
The state's endowment Match Program will
match tlie annual income at the rale of f> ri per
cent in new private gifts of endowment for sup
port made to the state s colleges and universities
in the lOOM'iu 1 biennium
The University lias a total of SO million avail
able for the matching program and this award is
the first made to thrr University tins biennium
Any new private gilts of $25,04)0 or more are elt
gibie for this match in funds if they provide for
faculty positions or related tear fling and research
support
The Koss Chair is the third endowed professor
ship in AAA The Frederick Charles [taker Chair
ill design and the Maude I Kerns Professorship in
Oriental art are the other two
Colleagues who knew Koss s.iv the gift i rimes
from a man wtio never married, hail no known
family at the time of his death and never owner) a
car or a home.
Fa mi ly inheritanr e and slot k investments,
along with his frugal lifestyle, accounted for
much of Koss' personal fortune, said Karen John
son. a University spokeswoman
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