Spring 2009 Spring the Magazine of the University of Nevada, Reno • Reno Nevada, of University the of Magazine The
The magazine of the University of Nevada, Reno • Spring 2009 NEVADA SILVER & BLUE • Spring 2009 • HONOR ROLL DONOR APPRECIATION & Honor Roll of Donors 2008 ANNUAL REPORT Photoillustration byPatrick McFarland Gallery of Benefactors: The Faces of Private Foundations Dorothy Lemelson Back Cover: Dorothy Lemelson is chair of the Carol Franc Buck Lemelson Foundation, which Carol Franc Buck is a she founded with her husband, philanthropist and avid Jerry, one of the world’s most supporter of opera and prolific inventors. Lemelson is the arts. In addition to fostering the couple’s dream of supporting the Mathewson- encouraging and supporting the next generation IGT Knowledge Center, she of inventors, innovators and entrepreneurs. In supports many of northern forming new avenues of opportunity for tomorrow’s Nevada’s major cultural creators, the Lemelson Foundation focuses on institutions, including the Reno Philharmonic, understanding, documenting, and promoting the Nevada Museum of Art, Nevada Opera, Sierra invention and innovation as significant contributors Nevada Chorale and the Nevada Ballet Theatre, to the strength and sustainability of social and among others. Buck serves as president of the economic life. In addition to her work with the Carol Franc Buck Foundation, is an original director Lemelson Foundation, she also leads and funds the of the Frank and Eva Buck Foundation, and has Lemelson Education and Assistance Program (LEAP), served as a director of the Buck Center on Aging which works to improve children’s lives primarily in Marin County, Calif. and as a board member of through the support of public education. She was the San Francisco Opera since 1981.
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