Faoro Gift Establishes Professorship in Water Resources
Abraham Faoro’s Gift Will Significantly Enhance the Program
Established through a series of gifts made by Abraham B. and Jean M. Faoro since 1993, the Faoro Professorship in Water Resources was completed in 2001. “This professorship will measurably enhance our ability to recruit leading faculty to our water resources program," said Sandra Woods, head of the Department of Civil Engineering. "It will also enable us to maintain our leading education and research program in a field that is vital to Colorado and the West."
Interest generated by the $875,000 endowment will provide funds to establish a faculty position devoted to teaching and research in water. During 2002-2003, the Department of Civil Engineering expects to recruit and hire a new faculty member to hold the Faoro Professorship.
Abraham Faoro, who passed away in 2001, graduated from Colorado A&M in 1932 with a bachelor's of science degree in civil engineering. Faoro grew up in a coal mining camp in Rockvale, Colorado where his father was a coal miner. He attended school in Florence and was one of the first Rockvale residents to attend college. Faoro worked in the oil industry in California and was employed for 35 years by the Shell Oil Company. He served as regional director for Shell in the Ventura area.
"I believe it is only right to help the institution that helped you get where you are," Faoro said several years before his death. "I feel I have been rewarded for my hard work and would like to give something back to help Colorado State."