For officials at Reed College, winning a big donation from David Eddings (No. 31 on The Chronicle’s Philanthropy 50) may have sometimes felt like an epic odyssey of the sort faced by characters in the ...
Donor’s background: Mr. Eddings was the author of fantasy novels. Mr. Eddings, who was 77 when he died in June 2009, bequeathed approximately $20-million in cash and stock to Reed College, in Portland ...