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October 11, 2004
A $2.5 million gift from University of Oregon alumnus Dave Petrone and his wife, Nancy, will provide student scholarships, new classrooms and laboratories, an endowed librarian position, and funds for sports marketing and a new health research center.
Petrone, chairman of Housing Capital Co. in San Mateo, Calif., says he and his wife were motivated to make the gift--their largest ever to the UO--by their admiration for the University of Oregon, its leaders, faculty members and volunteers, and by their desire to promote quality academic programs.
“It’s the people at the university who inspire us,” says Petrone, a 1966 economics graduate who also received his M.B.A. degree from the UO in 1968. “The president, the professors, the staff, the alumni who care so much--they make the university the kind of organization we want to be involved with.”
“Dave and Nancy Petrone personify generosity and vision,” says UO President Dave Frohnmayer. “With this gift, they have touched upon every cornerstone of our capital campaign--opportunity, inspiration, connection and discovery. On behalf of the entire university community, I want to thank Dave and Nancy for truly making a difference in the lives of so many.”
The gift from the Petrones will:
- Endow four student scholarships.
- Provide a permanent endowment for the highly regarded Warsaw Sports Marketing Center in the UO’s Lundquist College of Business.
- Provide initial funding for an expansion of Condon Hall that will include new laboratories and classrooms for geography and anthropology and a new facility for the university’s map and aerial photograph collections.
- Fund an endowed faculty position for a Map/Geographic Information Systems (GIS) librarian.
- Fund the first phase of a new Center for Biomedical Research and Health Assessment for the Department of Human Physiology.
Dave Petrone was the volunteer chair of the university’s last fund-raising campaign. He has served on the UO Foundation Board of Trustees since 1991 and is also a member of the Campaign Leadership Council for the university’s current fund-raising effort, “Campaign Oregon: Transforming Lives.”