Bill and Ruth Scott make significant gift to UNO

No strangers to community investment, Ruth and Bill Scott joined Carl and Joyce Mammel with a second significant gift to the new UNO College of Business Administration building.

"UNO greatly appreciates the generosity of Ruth and Bill Scott in supporting this transformational project on our Pacific Street campus," said John Christensen, UNO chancellor. "Their ongoing support of UNO and its mission as a metropolitan university is exceptional. And combined with their commitments to key projects across this community has greatly enhanced our city in a quiet yet extraordinary way."

The Scotts have generously supported projects throughout Omaha. That includes gifts benefiting the College of Public Affairs and Community Service and the Peter Kiewit Institute at UNO and several significant building projects at UNMC.

Son John Scott said his parents are deeply committed to the community — its progress, health and vitality. Their gift to the CBA project, he added, is an investment in the education of the community's future business leaders and in the economic development the college can help foster.

"First, our family would like to recognize the leadership of Carl and Joyce Mammel in this meaningful endeavor," he remarked. "My parents enjoy the opportunity to partner with the Mammels in helping bring this project to fruition. They share in Carl and Joyce's passion for supporting excellence in education and in promoting the economic strength of our community."

Ruth and Bill Scott both are graduates of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Ruth Scott earned a bachelor's degree in education in 1952. She went on to teach school and later founded the Omaha Bridge Studio, where she teaches "the game she loves so much."

Bill Scott earned a degree from the UNL College of Business Administration in 1953. He joined Buffett Partnership in 1959 and Berkshire Hathaway in 1970, remaining there until the early 1990s. Prior to that, he was with the trust department at U.S. National Bank's Investment Division, a money manager in Detroit, with the investment department at Banker's Life in Des Moines, and a state bank examiner with the Nebraska Department of Banking.

Source - By Rich Kaipust - Alum Magazine