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LARIVIERE UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT • FIRST YEAR (IOWA, 1972)
For the first time in 16 years, the University of Oregon welcomes a new leader at the helm of the state’s flagship institution of higher education. Richard Lariviere officially began his role as president of the Eugene university on July 1, 2009, following three years as executive vice chancellor and provost at the University of Kansas. Lariviere succeeded Dave Frohnmayer, who had served as president of the state’s largest university since 1994. As the chief academic officer at Kansas, Lariviere had overseen the reorganization of the KU graduate school and the School of Fine Arts, as well expansion efforts to KU’s School of Pharmacy and student recruitment tools. Prior to his tenure in Lawrence, Kan., Lariviere worked as dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin from 1999 to 2006. During his tenure heading the nation’s largest college of liberal arts, the college’s rate of external research funding doubled, a $120 million capital campaign was completed, and more than 230 faculty members were hired. Lariviere’s scholarly roots extend around the world. After earning his bachelor’s degree in the history of religions from the University of Iowa in 1972, Lariviere and his wife, Janis, traveled to India for the first time. Lariviere eventually built an impressive academic career around the country’s languages, histories, religions and culture.
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In 1978, he earned his doctorate in Sanskrit from the University of Pennsylvania. While he has published articles and several books on Indian legal history, he has also tackled subjects ranging from religion in India to matrimonial remedies for women in classical Hindu law. He reads eight languages and speaks French and Hindi. He has conducted research in London, Oxford, Calcutta, Poona Kathmandu, Tokyo, Beijing, Lahore, Munich, Colombo, and Madras, as well as a host of smaller cities in India. Lariviere is a Fellow of the IC2 Institute, a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain, a life member of the American Oriental Society, and a founding member of the Society for Design and Process Science. In addition, he has augmented his experience in higher education by consulting for American and Indian companies in information technology and Business Process Outsourcing. He has also served on corporate boards in the IT industry. Lariviere’s wife, Jan Worcester Lariviere, has worked in science education at the University of Kansas and the University of Texas. The couple has one daughter, Anne Elizabeth, who graduated from Barnard College and lives in New York City.
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BELLOTTI ATHLETIC DIRECTOR • FIRST YEAR (UC DAVIS, 1973)
One of the most successful football coaches in the history of the University of Oregon has turned his attention towards overseeing the entire operation of the school’s athletics department as of July 1, 2009. And if he is as productive in his new role as he was in his first 20 years of his Oregon tenure, there is little doubt the fortunes of the department will continue to flourish.
1995 – the Mike Bellotti Golf Classic – which raised a single-year record of $151,000 in 2008 for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, and has accumulated gross proceeds in excess of $1.1 million the past 15 years. In addition, he has personally donated more than $50,000 to the university’s library system since the establishment of the Bellotti Family Library Endowment Fund in 2002.
While the practice of elevating former coaches to athletics departments’ top spots is no longer the norm, the move to place Mike Bellotti in charge of one of the university’s most visible positions not only speaks volumes for his regard nationally among collegiate athletics circles but also his intuitive administrative sense and leadership skills.
Bellotti certainly could not have scripted his farewell to the coaching ranks much better, beginning with a resounding 5621 Sun Bowl win over South Florida to close the 2007 campaign. The momentum continued in 2008 as his final Oregon squad put together its fourth campaign of 10 or more wins in the decade, culminating in four-consecutive victories to end the season. Included was a dominating 65-38 triumph at Oregon State – the most points ever scored by either team in the 112 meetings between the rivals – followed by a 42-31 win over Oklahoma State in the Holiday Bowl.
Stepping aside as the Ducks’ winningest football coach ever (11655) following 14 seasons at the helm, Bellotti guided the program to an unprecedented 12 post-season appearances and six bowl triumphs, shares of two Pacific-10 Conference titles, a school-record 11 wins and a No. 2 national ranking in 2001, eight or more victories in a single season nine times, as well as a Top-25 national finish six times in the past 10 years. Since first becoming a part of the UO football coaching staff as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach under Rich Brooks in 1989, the 36-year coaching veteran was instrumental in assembling close to 28 percent (155) of the school’s 558 all-time victories. He also retired from coaching as the third-winningest football mentor in conference history in regards to league wins (72-43) – trailing only UCLA’s Terry Donahue (98-51-5, 1976-95) and Washington’s Don James (97-38-2, 1975-92). In addition to his 137-80-2 career collegiate ledger, the Northern California native became only the sixth football coach in Pac10 Conference history to win 100 games at one school, while his Oregon winning percentage of 67.8 percent trails only Hugo Bezdek (72.7%—1906, 1913-17) among the school’s all-time mentors who have coached the Ducks a minimum of three seasons. There is little question that his experience gained from elevating the UO football program into one of the most respected and successful in the country will serve him well as he tackles the economic challenges that lie ahead in collegiate athletics. In addition, he remains a strong proponent of maintaining the athletic department’s financial selfsustainability from the rest of the university. The former UC Davis honors student and 1973 graduate, Bellotti (12-21-50) is in his second year as chairman of the NCAA Football Rules Committee in addition to having completed five years on the Board of Trustees for the American Football Coaches Association before stepping down as the association’s third vice president. His respect among a variety of campus constituents also was evidenced by his selection to the University’s presidential transition team as Oregon welcomed incoming President Richard Lariviere on July 1, 2009, following Dave Frohnmayer’s 15 years as the UO leader. The passions have always run much deeper than that of just football for the state’s most recognizable collegiate athletics figure who contributed to the elevation of football fortunes throughout the state. He has sponsored an annual charity golf tournament since
UO finished 2008 with a 10-3 record and ranked ninth in the country in the USA Today poll, while The Sporting News tabbed Bellotti as its Pac-10 Coach of the Year. In 2008, Oregon shattered school marks for rushing yardage (3,641), total offense (6,303) and scoring (545) for the second year in a row, while the offense topped 60 points three times and scored 50 or more points on five occasions. The nation’s second-ranked rushing offense (280.1 avg.) led the league for the third year in a row, produced two 1,000-yard rushers for the second time in school history, and placed three runners among the top 10 in the Pac-10. Bellotti coached the Ducks to a school-record 11-win season in 2001 as Oregon crushed Colorado, 38-16, in the Fiesta Bowl to finish with an all-time high national ranking of second in the Associated Press and USA Today/ESPN Coaches polls. For his efforts, Bellotti was one of seven finalists for the Paul “Bear” Bryant College Football Coach of the Year Award. The former California State Chico head coach wasted little time leaving his mark on an Oregon program which snapped a 25-year postseason drought in his first season as an assistant in Eugene, with the Ducks surpassing all previous team scoring records in 1989. His initial six-year association with the university resulted in the establishment or equivalency of no fewer than 40 team and individual single-game and season UO records. Born in Sacramento, Calif., he assumed control over a program which had just won its first undisputed Pacific-10 Conference title in school history and received its first Rose Bowl invitation in four decades. What resulted was Oregon’s first-year mentor coaching the team to a second-consecutive New Year’s Day appearance for the first time in school history as the Ducks equaled the previous season’s effort with a nine-win season and a Cotton Bowl appearance in 1995. Bellotti becomes the 11th individual to serve as the university’s director of athletics. He succeeds Leo Harris (1948-67), Len Casanova (1967-70), Norv Ritchey (1970-76), John Caine (1976-81), Rick Bay (1981-84), Bill Byrne (1984-92), Rich Brooks (1992-94), Dan Williams (1994-95), Bill Moos (1995-2007) and Pat Kilkenny (2007-09). Mike (12-21-50) and his wife, Colleen, are the parents of three children; Luke, Keri and Sean.
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Jim Bartko Exec. Sr. Assoc. AD 20th Year
Renee’ Baumgartner Exec. Sr. Assoc. AD 21st Year
Bob Beals Assoc. AD 12th Year
Mike Duncan Sr. Assoc. AD Second Year
Vin Lananna Assoc. AD Fifth Year
Tom Larson Sr. Assoc. AD 16th year
Mike Marlow Sr. Assoc. AD 12th Year
Herb Yamanaka Assoc. AD 50th Year
Bill Clever Exec. Asst. AD 11th Year
Leanne Brooks Asst. AD 12th Year
James Harris Asst. AD Third Year
Garrett Klassy Asst. AD Fifth Year
Jeff Hawkins Sr. Assoc. AD Ninth Year
Joe Giansante Sr. Assoc. AD Third Year
Gary Gray Sr. Assoc. AD 26th Year
Mark Ruckwardt Asst. AD Sixth Year
Angie Sit Asst. AD 10th Year
Dave Williford Exec. Asst. AD 25th Year
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