Presidential Medals Conferred On Two Business Leaders
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Eugene businessman Dan Giustina and South Korean businessman Wan Koo Huh—both longtime supporters of the university—received the UO Presidential Medal, one of the university’s highest honors, during spring commencement June 17.
The medal recognizes individuals who have demonstrated a commitment to higher education through long-standing and extraordinary support.
Giustina ’72, M.B.A. ’74, is managing partner of Giustina Resources, which owns and manages timber and timberland in Oregon and Washington. He also has extensive real estate holdings in Eugene and elsewhere in Oregon.
He served on the UO Foundation Board of Trustees from 1993 to 2004 and was the board’s president in 2002–3. He is also a member of the Dean’s Business Advisory Council for the Lundquist College of Business. In 2003, he and his family endowed more than forty UO Presidential Scholarships, creating the Giustina Foundation Presidential Scholarship Program.
Huh is chairman of Sungsan Group and a partner in GS Holdings Corporation in Seoul, South Korea. The Huh family is the majority owner of Eugene-based Farwest Steel Corporation and considers Eugene their second home.
In 2002, the Huh family made a major gift to the UO’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art to establish a wing for Korean art. Farwest Steel made an additional gift to the museum in 2005, also to support Korean art. Huh is a former member of the Seoul Forum for International Affairs Council and a former trustee of Lewis and Clark College in Portland.
