….about 300 guests gave Andrew ?Sandy? Wilcox a big send-off during a reception and dinner at the Memorial Union last Thursday night.
Wilcox has served as president of the UW Foundation, the university?s fundraising arm, for the past 21 years. During that time the foundation has experienced phenomenal growth with its assets growing from $190 million to $2.5 billion. Additionally, the foundation pumped roughly $2 billion into the university. That?s been a great help for a campus that has seen its state-supported funding drop from 35 percent of its budget to less than 19 percent, as former Chancellor John Wiley pointed out during a brief program honoring Wilcox in the union?s Great Hall.