 Ellsworth and Nancy Alvord
UW Recognition Award
Occupation: Ellsworth (Buster) Alvord is a professor and head
of neuropathology in the UW School
of Medicine. Nancy Alvord was a founding member of the UW Foundation
Board of Directors.
Public Service: Their volunteer work and their philanthropy includes
a wide range of human service, educational and arts organizations. Nancy
has served on numerous boards. She was a founding director of the UW Foundation
and served on the UW Libraries
Visiting Committee and the History
Visiting Committee, as well as helped raise funds for the Solomon Katz Professorship
in the Humanities. In addition to his community work, Buster has served
on the Meany Hall Advisory Board, the
1994 Salute Harborview
Committee, the Henry Art Gallery
Board of Trustees and helped raise funds for the Arthur A. Ward Professorship
in Neurological Surgery. Their contributions to the University have included
many generous gifts, which now total more than $4 million. An endowed fellowship
in the humanities bears their names, and they have supported campus programs,
including Meany Hall, the Henry Art Gallery, the Department of History,
the UW Libraries, the Educational Opportunity Program and KUOW.
The Alvords were honored as Outstanding Philanthropic Family of 1995 by
the Washington State Chapter of the National Society of Fund Raising Executives.
They were recognized as Seattle King County's First Citizens in 1991.
Quote: "This University, this community, and this state have
been lucky to have two people as thoughtful and generous as the Alvords
in our midst for the last 38 years. We are also fortunate that they have
passed on their family values: the Alvord children and grandchildren are
following Buster's and Nancy's wonderful example of concern for their community."--Marilyn
Batt Dunn, UW Vice President for Development |
