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Nearly 300 guests attended the 2009 President’s Dinner.
President Ed Ray offers a toast to the Harris Society members.
Campaign for OSU Co-Chair Jim Rudd greets Lifetime Trustee Joan Austin.
President Ray visits with OSU parents Dave and Ann Thompson.
Time to catch up with friends and meet new ones.
Campaign for OSU Co-Chair Pat Reser '60 visits with Ken Austin '54.
Campaign for OSU Co-Chair Patrick Stone '74 notes that the last year was the second best in OSU fundraising history.
A Powered-by-Orange MAX train zooms across the screen during the dinner program.
Student Ada Chang shares her experiences at OSU with guests Ed and Mary Jennings.
Environmental sciences student Abby Metzger recalls a seminar led by philosophy professor Kathleen Dean Moore that set her life on a new course.
Engineering professor Christopher Higgins notes that private support is allowing OSU to position students like doctoral candidate Thomas Schumacher for success.
Thank you letters written by current students and recent graduates were presented to new Harris Society members at the dinner.
OSU Foundation Board of Trustees Chair Paul Lorenzini '70 introduces new members of the Harris Society.
President Ed Ray presents Ken '76 and Celia Austin '76 with their letter from a grateful student.
President Ed Ray thanks John D. Gray '40 for his gifts to OSU Libraries and 4-H.
Pat Reser '60 and Joan Austin visit after the dinner.
Former OSU First Lady and OSU Parent Shirley Byrne talks with Larry '61 and Kay Baugh '61.
Photos by Karl Maasdam, '93
President's Dinner 2009
The Oct. 16 President's Dinner brought together OSU's most generous donors to celebrate the impact their gifts are having on Oregon State University. Held at the Portland Art Museum, the program featured faculty members and students who described how private gifts to the university have changed their lives.
President Ed Ray thanked members of the 1868 Society for giving OSU "the capacity to shape its destiny and focus on the future during a period when many institutions are paralyzed. . . . You have done more than preserve our ability to serve the people of this state and beyond – you have advanced it!"
Sixteen new members were welcomed into OSU's highest donor recognition group, the Harris Society: those whose generous gifts to OSU have exceeded $1 million over their lifetimes. Seventy-four households and 39 organizations are now part of the Harris Society. The new members include:
- Celia Strickland Austin '76 & Ken Austin III '76
- Google Inc.
- John D. Gray '40
- National Semiconductor Corporation
- Jane Webster Newton '70 & Michael Newton '59
- Betty Mae O'Brien '65 & Richard L. O'Brien
- Susan E. Poorman '61 & Ken R. Poorman '61
- Semiconductor Research Corporation
- Starker Forests, Inc.
- Norman E. Wildish '42
