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By Don Stoll<\/p>\n
Idyllwild Arts<\/p>\n
Manager of Communications and International Student Relations<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s ancient history. I\u2019ll tell you what resonates today, though.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bill Lowman,\u00a0Idyllwild Arts Academy\u2019s\u00a0founding president, could have talked all day about Dr. Richard MacNeal, who had died in January at age 94. Lowman\u00a0was planning what to say as one of the speakers at\u00a0his longtime friend\u2019s memorial service, in Pasadena tomorrow [Feb. 24]. The recollections had come in a torrent, but he was bent on capturing what was most important. \n\u201cBelief in education, commitment to academic and artistic quality, pride in the students whose success he supported so generously, belief<\/p>\nDr. Richard MacNeal (right) and Robert Schwendler in the early 1960s working on the space program. Photo courtesy Idyllwild Arts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
in doing something meaningful with the wealth you could make in America \u2026 and commitment\u00a0to entrepreneurial philanthropy.\u201d \nThe words \u201centrepreneurial philanthropy\u201d had recurred throughout\u00a0Lowman\u2019s stories of \u201cthe brilliant man who was the greatest guy you could imagine.\u201d They were a reminder that<\/p>\nDr. Richard MacNeal. Photo courtesy Idyllwild Arts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
MacNeal had seen the\u00a0academy through its shaky first several years with more than generosity. Co-founding MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation (MSC), whose software was crucial in the aerospace industry\u2019s\u00a0infancy, had made\u00a0MacNeal a multimillionaire.<\/p>\n
But MacNeal wasn\u2019t only generous,\u00a0Lowman emphasized. He\u2019d been bold \u2014 \u201centrepreneurial\u201d \u2014 in giving his fortune to build an arts academy whose success was never guaranteed. \nIdyllwild Arts Foundation\u2019s board, including MacNeal, had brought\u00a0Lowman from the Nevada School of the Arts, in Las Vegas, in 1985, ostensibly to fix a summer program whose excellence hadn\u2019t kept it from losing money.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, the\u00a0summer \u201cmodel didn\u2019t work,\u201d\u00a0Lowman concluded as his hard work failed to stave off a financial emergency.<\/p>\n
An arts boarding school was within the original vision-mission of Idyllwild Arts Foundation and would attract more revenue. However, \u201cwe needed a library, dorms, and accreditation. What parents would send their child to an unaccredited school?\u201d<\/p>\n
Lowman\u2019s determination and ingenuity equipped him to find solutions. But only because MacNeal was the right man to ask to pay for them.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlmost monthly,\u201d Lowman recalls, \u201cI\u2019d drive to his home in Garner Valley and come back with a check. I\u2019d tell him what we needed and he\u2019d say, \u2018I\u2019m willing to give the money because the mission is important.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
It still is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Don Stoll Idyllwild Arts Manager of Communications and International Student Relations \u201cThat\u2019s ancient history. I\u2019ll tell you what resonates today, though.\u201d Bill Lowman,\u00a0Idyllwild Arts Academy\u2019s\u00a0founding president, could have talked all day about Dr. Richard MacNeal, who had died in January at age 94. Lowman\u00a0was planning what to say as one of the speakers at\u00a0his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411076,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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