{"id":1657,"date":"2020-07-22T18:30:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T18:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2020-07-22T19:10:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T19:10:28","slug":"donor-spotlight-linda-and-herb-jolliff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/2020\/07\/22\/donor-spotlight-linda-and-herb-jolliff\/","title":{"rendered":"Donor Spotlight: Linda and Herb Jolliff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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One good teacher can make the difference between loving math or hating it. But for Herb and Linda Jolliff, \u201966, a calculus professor at EOU taught them even more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two met in Leroy Damewood\u2019s class in 1963 and graduated together three years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe met and got to know one another studying calculus and differential equations,\u201d Herb said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Linda went on to teach in public schools, and Herb taught at the Oregon Institute of Technology after graduating with a master\u2019s degree from Utah State University. They agreed, though, that Damewood\u2019s example set them on their paths to success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was a period of growing up for me,\u201d Herb said. \u201cHe was an excellent teacher. The class was very tough, but you learned a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Linda, the only woman in Damewood\u2019s class at the time, said she appreciated his no-nonsense \u201csay what you mean, and mean what you say\u201d approach. Linda and Herb\u2019s shared passion for teaching in rural areas has only grown in 53 years of marriage. Where they live now, in Independence, Ore., Linda said a handful of colleges are within an hour\u2019s drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut in Eastern Oregon, EOU serves a real purpose,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Herb remembers living on a wheat ranch 23 miles from Arlington, Ore., and how that remoteness made his education challenging. During his senior year of high school, there weren\u2019t enough fellow students to offer a math class at his level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, EOU fills that gap for rural students throughout the region. And the Jolliffs are already thinking about the next generation of math enthusiasts. As Oregon\u2019s Rural University, EOU produces many of the educators that fill public schools in small towns. Herb and Linda established a scholarship this year, through the EOU Foundation<\/a>, that will support those young teachers on their way to molding the minds of tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe both love math, and they always need good math teachers in rural areas,\u201d Herb said. \u201cIt takes a special person \u2026 The best teachers have got to be tough, but they\u2019ve got to be compassionate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They see the endowment as an investment in the future of rural communities. Linda said scholarships made college possible for her, and she\u2019s eager to \u201cpay it forward\u201d to others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve lived in small places all of our married life, so that\u2019s just our outlook,\u201d Herb said. \u201cThat\u2019s why we want to support someone from Eastern Oregon, who would give back to those smaller communities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It all adds up One good teacher can make the difference between loving math or hating it. But for Herb and Linda Jolliff, \u201966, a calculus professor at EOU taught them even more. The two met in Leroy Damewood\u2019s class in 1963 and graduated together three years later. \u201cWe met and got to know one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":491,"featured_media":1658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foundation-profiles","category-magazine-profiles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1661,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions\/1661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}