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Amparo (Spanish, Paperback)
Enrique 1829-1897 Perez Escrich, Medora Loomis Ed Ray, Ruth a Joint Ed Bahret
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R703
Discovery Miles 7 030
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Published in cooperation with the Dr. Daly Project Association
Bernard Daly escaped the Irish Famine and with his family emigrated
to America, where he became the town doctor in Lakeview, Oregon,
and then a state legislator, Oregon Agricultural College regent,
county judge, rancher, and banker. When he died in 1920, his
estate, valued at about a million dollars, established a college
scholarship for the youth of Lake County. Daly's scholarship fund
would ensure that most of the youth of tiny, remote Lake County
could attend college. Drawing on more than a hundred personal
interviews, an extensive web-based survey, and archival materials,
this book tells the story of Daly's life, the scholarship fund, and
its impact on the recipients, who went on to remarkable careers and
lives. At a time when almost no one went to college, Daly created a
"college for all" possibility in a remote corner of America. The
impact of the Daly Fund, one of America's oldest continuously
operating place-based scholarship, offers unique insights into the
benefits of higher education and how it might best be supported -
questions that we are struggling with today.
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