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...movie with Bill and Melinda, he volunteered to help them start answering the requests. His son agreed. "I was willing to start early because I had someone I trusted to carry it out," Bill says. So they set up the William H. Gates Foundation in Bill Sr.'s basement rec room. He used his home address, until the post office complained about the volume of mail...
...billion (on paper) and one year into an epic antitrust suit brought against Microsoft by the U.S. government, they endowed the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with an initial $17 billion. They folded the old foundation into the new one and persuaded Bill Sr. to move out of his basement and into a real office. Patty Stonesifer, a former Microsoft executive who had been running the Gateses' library project, joined him to lead what was suddenly the biggest philanthropy in the country...
These are heady times for an organization that started in a basement rec room not long ago. By all accounts, the person who keeps the foundation "humble and mindful," as its informal motto goes, is Bill Sr., who is in the office every day. He earns a salary of $179,275 and is very involved in the foundation's Pacific Northwest projects, but he is also the informal ombudsman. "Bill Gates Sr. is in the halls, in my head," says Stonesifer. Whenever the staff congratulates itself on a particularly positive media story, Senior loudly complains that the focus should have...
...Sociology majors pass out of their requirements. Lucky thing there’s a huge duct nearby that vents dry, vaguely Kinkos-scented air. A little asphalt would go a long way.Nine: Speed the trip to Mem. Hall 203. The door on the elevator traversing the shaft between the basement and second floor of Memorial Hall does its best Star Wars trash-compactor impression every time you push “2.” The door closes so slowly that most students save their Justice section reading for the ride up.Eight: Make Gov office hours equal-opportunity. Gov-jocks...
Organizations such as the Prefect Program and the First-Year Outdoor Program will not lose their offices in Matthews basement since it will not undergo renovation, McLoughlin said...