Alumnus gives $200,000 gift
By Colleen Pohlig
Emerald Associate Editor
The University announc ed Tuesday it has been
awarded a $200,000 endowment from an alumnus
of the college of Arts and Sciences,
Kisa Palm, dean of the College of Arts and Sci
ences, announced the endowment from Universi
ty alumnus Richard Bray. Palm will oversee the
distribution of the gift. The gift automatically
secures for the college a matching grunt from the
Faculty Endowment Fund organized by the state
Hoard of Higher Education and endorsed by the
1991 legislature.
Palm also presented Junior Professorship
Awards to 20 faculty members The awards will be
used to support research work in humanities and
social si ienc.es. The grants were made possible by
private gifts from alumni.
(Both funds) do the same thing.' said David
Begun, director of development for the College of
Arts and Science. "They are both private money
invested in University education for obtaining and
retaining the best and brightest faculty."
Bray, a retired executive vice president from tin
standard Oil Co., said he established the Richard
A. Bray Faculty Endowment l>e< ause of the posi
tive experience he hud when he was an under
graduate in the College of Arts and Sciences Bray
also contributed to the Junior Partnership Fund.
"I think my advantage was that I yvas exposed to
diversity for the sake of diversity and then found
the world to be diverse.” Bray said. "So I owe a
debt of gratitude to this University for doing what
it's nlwavs done and what it will continue to do in
the future in providings first-class, broad litM-ral
arts education."
Bray said that in an effort to repay "the debt of
gratitude." he is giving faith his time and money at
a time when the University needs both
Future faculty ns ipients of the Junior Professor
ships will be able to use their awards to sec un
other matc hing grants offered by federal agencies
and private foundation matc hing programs, vvhic h
would triple the effect of the gift
Bray gave Palm three spec ifications lor his gilt
recipients demonstrate excellence in leaching as
wen as sc hohrshlp ret Ipients are willing to pro- .
vide professional service to the ac ademic field,
and each award will have a leveraging effect, ai a
demically or financially.
The individual junior Professorship Awards,
which will also be matched by the Fm ulty Fndmv
moot Fund, will provide sup|K>rt for scholarship in
the faculty members' areas of specialty that are
otherwise unavailable. Palm said
"Their research efforts will he- used to improve
.me! cp.ric h the > ourse work for our students as
well as to further the career resenn h interests of
the faculty members," Palm said
The awards will help to provide travel to
arc hives, purchase library materials, fund atten
dance at teaching workshops and pay for a vari
ety of otiier activities
in recent weeks, the University has recieved
more than $.1 million in private gifts, including a
$185,000 grant to the Center for Fxt ollence. a St
million gift to the College of Arts and Sciences
from alumnus John B. Uamacher and a combined
$400,000 from alumni to the Sc hool of journalism
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the Willamette Valley, including
the West Eugene wetlands.
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way was first proposed, in the
early 1980s. the city council
"had very different ideas” about
environmental matters than
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sent city council might well
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