My dad, Ray French, received a scholarship to study mechanical engineering here in 1960, and while he worked on his master’s degree, my mother, Elaine French, supported them with her job at a bottled water company. And on nights and weekends, she was my dad’s lab assistant. There’s...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the world's largest charitable foundation. Its assets of approximately $22 billion dwarf most other foundations, including such well-known giants as the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corp., and the Rockefeller Foundation. The Gates Foundation gives away approxi...
Its educational initiatives include a minority scholarship program and a campaign to provide computers to needy public libraries across the United States and Canada. The Gates Foundation's assets are provided by Bill Gates, founder of the computer software firm Microsoft, and his wife Melinda French...
My dad, Ray French, received a scholarship to study mechanical engineering here in 1960, and while he worked on his master’s degree, my mother, Elaine French, supported them with her job at a bottled water company. And on nights and weekends, she was my dad’s lab assistant. There’s...