Carson man donates scholarships

Carson City resident Joseph B. Allegretti and his wife, Helen, donate two University of Portland scholarships, a Catholic university in Oregon, to honor a victim of Haiti earthquake

Allegretti, an investment manager and land developer with Allegretti & Company, announced the scholarships recently at an awards luncheon at the university.

University alumni Molly Hightower, a 2009 graduate who died in the recent Haiti earthquake while working at a children's orphanage, was recognized.

Allegretti announced that the scholarships donated by the Allegrettis in honor of Molly Hightower have been awarded to Yvonne Hollett, a senior at Carson High School in Carson City and Megan Parker, a senior at Bishop Manogue Catholic High School in Reno.

"With these new scholarships, his extraordinary support now totals more than $3 million," Beauchamp told the luncheon crowd.

Allegretti has been a member of the University's board of regents since 2007. He has served as chairman of the board of directors of Allegretti & Company, a real estate development firm based in California since 1986. He has been a member that board since 1962 and was president from 1979-1990.

The University of Portland is Oregon's Catholic university and has been closely affiliated for more than a century with the Congregation of Holy Cross in South Bend, Indiana. U.S. News & World Report ranks the institution as one of the top ten regional universities in the American West. It is the only school in Oregon to offer a College of Arts & Sciences, a graduate school, and nationally accredited programs in the schools of business, education, engineering, and nursing.