The story in yesterday’s Register-Guard about the terrible injury in 1984 to University of Colorado football player Ed Reinhardt Jr. @@http://www.registerguard.com/web/sports/27051451-41/reinhardt-embree-colorado-family-injury.html.csp@@and his miraculous survival is a great reminder of the wonderful medical community that Eugene continues to be blessed with.
It is also an opportunity for some of us to reflect on and for others to learn of the wonderful but ever-quiet generosity of the late John E. Jaqua for whom the University’s athlete education center as well as The Shedd Institute@@http://www.theshedd.org/@@ downtown are named.
On learning of Reinhardt’s grave injury and the realistic medical concern that he might not survive even the night, Jaqua quietly, privately and at his own personal expense chartered a private jet to immediately fly Reinhardt’s parents to Eugene so that they might be with their son.
This is yet another example of Jaqua quietly living the maxim: “Blessed are they who give without remembering and who receive without forgetting.”
Bob Lowry@@http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=1053527670&sk=wall@@
Eugene resident
Letter: John E. Jaqua’s generosity is to be commended
Daily Emerald
October 19, 2011
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