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$1.4 Million Gift Goes to Preserve History of University of Oregon.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, May, 2004

By Greg Bolt, The Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 24--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 paperwork chores and let Briston...

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