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 ...
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 ...