Love for the UO
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Twins Robert and George Scherzer of Portland, both 1974 UO graduates, say no one could have had a better college experience than they did. They loved their classes, they both enjoyed working as manager of the men’s basketball team, they jogged with Steve Prefontaine in Hendricks Park, and they watched the Vietnam War protests on campus.
“George and I and everyone we went to school with are very nostalgic about our college years,” says Rob, an attorney. “We had a wild, interesting, stimulating time and it was productive time—it gave us great careers.”
Now the Scherzers want to make sure that UO students of today and tomorrow have as great an experience as they did. And they want all their friends to get on board.
They each have made an initial gift of $25,000 to the university and a commitment to give $5,000 a year for the next fifteen years. So, altogether, they have pledged a total of $200,000. They plan to contact at least 100 fellow Ducks and persuade them to make their own commitments.
