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Contributions
to the Geosciences Department
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Private
support of the Geosciences Department, its programs, and
its students is essential to building and maintaining excellence
and many friends, family and alumni participate in this
effort. Students, faculty, and staff thank all of these
people for their support.
By mail
Contributions
are tax deductible and may be mailed to:
Oregon State University Foundation
attention: Anne Ruggiero
850 SW 35th Street
Corvallis, Oregon 97333-4015
The
forms below can be printed and used as a means for directing
your gift. Please make checks payable to the OSU Foundation
and indicate in the memo line, or an attached letter, the
account targeted for the gift. If your company has a matching
program, please enclose the matching form with your contribution.
Funds for General Support of Geosciences and its Academic
Programs
Funds for Undergraduate
Student Support Purposes
Funds for Graduate Student
Support Purposes
Funds for Faculty Support
By credit card
Click here if
you want to select the fund names from the lists
above before going to the OSU Foundation to make the contribution, or choose from the following list:
Jean Bowman Clark has a unique place in the history of the Department of Geosciences. She was the first woman geology graduate at both the BS and MS levels. She worked on research projects in central Oregon and collected and identified fossil plant specimens used as stratigraphic indicators. After graduating with a BS in 1939, one of these projects grew to become her master’s thesis, which was on the geology of the Hampton Quadrangle, under “Doc” Wilkinson. After she completed her MS in 1940, Jean went to work at the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI). In her time there, she worked on a variety of projects, some in paleontology, some in what we now call outreach, some in the geology of central Oregon.
Jean, her children Maryla, Chris, Shelly, and Fred, her eight grandchildren, and three greatgrandchildren, would like to join us in announcing their creation of the Jean Bowman Clark Geology Fellowship in the Department of Geosciences. This endowment will generate funds in perpetuity for our students.
- Evans Scholarship
Samuel Evans, Jr. was killed while in the Navy on November 18, 1970. He was interested in geology and Oregon was his favorite state. His parents established this scholarship after his death.
The award is to be given to a student who has demonstrated evidence of scholarship and professional motivation. It is intended to serve as encouragement to pursue a lifetime affiliation with the geological sciences.
- Lance Forsythe Memorial Fund
Lance Forsythe received his PhD at Oregon State University in 1994. Described as a renaissance thinker, he was able to view problems from all dimensions and never forgot where his priorities as a scientist and citizen were. Upon his death in 2002, a memorial was set up in his name to help support a student to be selected for an award each year by a three-person committee selected and headed by the graduate advisor of the Geology Program. The award recognizes a graduate student that exhibits the breadth and independence of thought in the pursuit of their gradute education that so characterized Lance.
- R. Highsmith Founders Fellowship (Geography Masters research initiation award)
Dr. Highsmith’s professional career was filled with many accomplishments that led to opportunities for students. In appreciation of his service, former students and friends established the Richard M. Highsmith Jr. Founders Fellowship Fund to support graduate student awards in the Geography Program. Dr. Highsmith’s vision of developing a graduate program combining both the academic and application side of geographic studies continues to be affirmed in the activities of Oregon State University’s Geography Program. Even with his passing, students benefit from his legacy at Oregon State University.
- Christian Hunt Memorial Fund (support of undergraduate geography program)
The fund has been established as a perpetual memorial for the purpose of constructively aiding the study of geography through the Oregon State University Department of Geosciences, or its successors. The funds will provide benefits to students who are pursuing an undergraduate degree in geography from the department.
- J.G. Jensen Founders Fellowship (Geography Masters researchh initiation award)
J. G. Jensen was a professor at Oregon State University in 1947, and led the development of a new program in resource geography. In 1952, he founded the department of natural resources in the school of science and served as its chairman until 1964. The department expanded under his leadership, and earned a reputation as one of the best programs of its kind in the United States. In 1966 the department of natural resources was changed to the department of geography. Jensen retired in 1977 after authoring several books and numerous professional articles.
Geography Faculty members established this fellowship for master’s degree students in the Geography Program after they have produced a research proposal acceptable to their advisor.
- Gordon Matzke Fund
- Keith Muckleston Scholarship Fund (Geography Water Resources Scholarship)
Keith W. Muckleston scholarship was thought of and funded by Dick Marston. Dick felt the award was for teaching, and named it after one of his teachers, Keith Muckleston. The award goes to a graduate student, seeking a doctorate in Geography.
- Earl L. Packard Achievement Award (Student Scholarship)
Earl L. Packard was the first dean of science at Oregon State University. Ellen James Moore, a former undergraduate student of Packard’s, felt the late professor had received little in the way of recognition form the University. Ellen felt she was able to graduate because of Packard’s indirect financial assistance and later, primarily because of Packard’s inspiring and scholarly teaching, became a paleontologist with the U. S. Geological Survey.
Ellen James Moore desired to honor Packard with an award to be given out Spring Quarter to a junior majoring in geology.
- Parenzin Undergraduate Scholarship
Art Parenzin was a graduate student in the Department of Geography working on a Ph.D. program from 1975 to 1978. Brought up in Susanville, California, Art came to OSU with extensive professional experience in the administration and planning of outdoor recreational resources in Oklahoma, Texas and Alaska. An avocational interest in ecology and environmental affairs led Art back to university studies.
The fund has been established by Arthur’s Mother Hazel Parenzin, as a perpetual memorial for the purpose of aiding the study of geography through the Oregon State University Department of Geosciences, or its successors. Income from the Fund supports scholarships for students pursuing an undergraduate degree in geography.
- Parenzin Graduate Research Fellowship
- John Pine Memorial Fellowship
To commemorate the life of John Pine, a former Graduate Assistant in the Geography Program, this fund will assist Oregon State University Geography Master of Science students to realize their professional career goals by offering funding for travel to professional meetings.
One student each year, will be selected by a Geography faculty committee to receive a grant of up to $500.00 to travel to a professional meeting. There is no requirement to make a presentation at the meeting, but he Memorial Fund guidelines stipulate that the grant shall be based on financial need, and that it is intended to create an opportunity for a student to attend their first professional meeting.
- R.S. Yeats Endowment in Earthquake Geology and Tectonics
To recognize Dr. Yeats’s body of work and to attract a new rising star to continue his legacy in earthquake geology. This addition will greatly improve our ability to deliver
the educational mission of the department in field-techniques training, graduate education, and large-format courses. It also will help us to teach fundamental principles of earth sciences and the relevance of innovative approaches in scientific research to Oregonians and the world.
Stocks,
bonds, life insurance policies, real estate, and estate
assets may also be assigned to the OSU Foundation for the
purpose of supporting the Geosciences Department. To discuss
philanthropic opportunities in our programs, feel free to
contact any of the following:
Chair: Roger
Nielsen
Director, Geography Program: Julia Jones
Director, Geology Program: Roy
Haggerty
Director of Development, OSU Foundation: Anne Ruggiero
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