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Article: $1.4 million gift goes to preserve history of UO.(Higher Education)(Endowment will fund salary of archivist Heather Briston)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- May 24, 2004
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Byline: Greg Bolt The Register-Guard
Heather Briston now has a title to go along with the stuffed iguana, commemorative footballs and 115-year-old potpourri she stewards.
Thanks to a $1.4 million endowed gift, Briston is now the Richard and Mary Corrigan Solari University Historian and Archivist. That's a long way of saying she's in charge of the University of Oregon's past.
The gift makes Briston, who's been the UO record keeper for 2 1/2 years, one of the few holders of an endowed archivist position in the United States. Interest earnings from the endowment will cover her salary, freeing up money to hire a technician to handle most of the ...