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UO eclips, Oct. 20-22
Top news stories for Oct. 20 to Oct. 22, 2007: In the "The gift of giving," The Register-Guard takes an inside look at Lorry Lokey, whose recent $74.5 million gift to the UO continues to makes headlines. And in "Female scientists give teenagers a formula for success," the Register Guard reports on a UO initiative to encourage young women to go into the sciences.
The gift of giving (The Register-Guard): Think of Lorry Lokey as a successful farmer, a man who has sown and reaped well and who now wants to prepare the soil for a new harvest. That’s an apt metaphor for a man whose Depression-era thrift, hard work and good fortune as a media entrepreneur brought him a silo’s worth of money, nearly all of which he intends to plow under, a kind of philanthropic fertilizer. What you take you give back, he says, invoking a down-home philosophy more in tune with the farmhand than the millionaire. Portland-born Lokey, 80, has given away about $400 million in the past seven years or so, the largest single chunk going to the University of Oregon, a school he never attended. He says he gives out of a sense of obligation and a feeling of joy, which both flow from a belief that those who have, share.
Female scientists give teenagers a formula for success (The Register-Guard): For Geri Richmond, other scientific gatherings couldn’t hold a beaker to this one. “I just love being around a bunch of brainy women,” she said, addressing more than 50 women (and a few men) who came together for the first Women in Technology and Science luncheon at the University of Oregon on Saturday, aimed specifically at attracting high school girls toward science and technology degrees. Richmond likened being a woman scientist to quilting, displaying different quilts to the audience to punctuate her point. Showing a plain lined, two-tone quilt, she said that when she started her career as a chemist, she expected to be very conservative, humorless and all business. She thought it would be a straight road, a logical progression from undergraduate studies to a master’s degree to a career.