Two UO programs receive donations.Byline: Susan Palmer The Register-Guard The University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. announced two significant gifts from a relatively new donor on Monday. The first - a $2 million donation - will go toward renovations at the School of Music. The second - $4.5 million - will help create a journalism program at the university's Portland Center. At ceremonies in Eugene and Portland, UO President Dave Frohnmayer thanked donor Lorry Lokey not only for his generosity but for his sensitivity. Lokey suggested that the new music building be named after Frohnmayer's mother, MarAbel Braden Frohnmayer. MarAbel Frohnmayer, a University of Oregon music school graduate who with her husband, Otto, raised a family in Medford, was involved with music all her life. A pianist with perfect pitch, she co-founded the Rogue Valley The Rogue Valley is a farming and timber-producing region in southwestern Oregon in the United States. located along the middle Rogue River and its tributaries in Josephine and Jackson counties, the valley forms the cultural and economic heart of southern Oregon near the California Symphony, and served as president of the Rogue Valley Chorale chorale (kōrăl`, –räl`), any of the traditional hymns of the German Protestant Church. The form was developed after the Reformation to replace the plainsong of the earlier service and as a means of congregational participation in and chairwoman of the Civic Music Association and Community Concerts. She also served on the board of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) is a regional repertory theatre in Ashland, Oregon, United States. The festival annually produces eleven plays on three stages during a season that lasts from February to October. , the Britt Music Festival and the Rogue Valley Opera. Lokey, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Business Wire, an international public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most firm, previously had donated $2 million to the UO music school project. The additional $2 million brings the total donations to the project to $7.1 million. The university must raise $7.6 million by October in order to receive a matching bond from the state to build the $15.2 million project. The aging music school has been overtaxed for years, with students sitting on the floors in crowded classrooms, and rehearsal space often booked beyond capacity, Dean Brad Foley said. The school has 500 music students in a building designed to serve 300. An additional 3,000 nonmajors take music classes there, he said. An insufficient number of practice rooms meant students such as recent graduate Hallie Silverston, who will study voice at the Eastman School of Music Eastman School of Music: see Rochester, Univ. of. in Rochester, N.Y., this fall, often had to warm up for lessons in the restroom. When she did get space in a practice room, either the acoustics were so bad she couldn't hear herself, or the noise from violinists or horn players This list of horn players includes horn (French horn) players about whom there is a Wikipedia article.
The new facility will reflect the caliber of the faculty who work there, she said. The project, designed by the Portland firm BOORA Architects, includes a new entrance on 18th Avenue, a large ensemble rehearsal room, small seminar rooms, a computer lab with 30 workstations, rehearsal spaces and acoustically isolated teaching studios. The Beall Hall lobby will be closed off to daily traffic and preserved for access to the concert hall. The music school expects to break ground in August 2006 with completion in fall 2008. Lokey's $4.5 million gift to the UO School of Journalism and Communications matches another donation by an anonymous donor for the journalism school A journalism school is a school or department, usually part of an established university, where journalists are trained. An increasingly used short form for a journalism department, school or college is 'j-school'. in Portland. With $9 million, the UO will open the George S. Turnbull Portland Center this fall with plans to offer degree programs in 2006. Planned programs include a master's degree master's degree n. An academic degree conferred by a college or university upon those who complete at least one year of prescribed study beyond the bachelor's degree. Noun 1. in management communications for working professionals, and an internship that pairs seniors with public relations firms. The Portland center is designed to build on existing relationships between the university and the business community. About 2,000 UO journalism school alumni live or work in the Portland area, with more than one-third of the UO's 1,400 undergraduates coming from Portland. The center will be named after Turnbull, journalism school dean from 1944 to 1948, who remained active in the profession well after he retired from the university. Lokey, who grew up in Portland, lives in Atherton, Calif., and has donated millions to schools, including Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. , from which he graduated in 1947 with a journalism degree. He also has funded projects at Mills College Mills College, at Oakland, Calif.; for women; est. 1852 as the Young Ladies' Seminary at Benicia, Calif., moved 1871, chartered as Mills College 1885. The first women's college in the Far West, it has programs in English literature and creative writing, foreign in California, Alameda Elementary School in Portland and Leo Baeck School in Haifa, Israel. He suggested naming the buildings after others because they gave so much more than money to the communities where they lived. "Giving money is easy," he said. "It's just a thing. You can always get more. Giving your time, that's blood. You can't buy it back." |
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