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词条 Bill Lane (publisher)
释义

  1. Early life and education

  2. Career

  3. Philanthropy, death and legacy

  4. References

  5. External links

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Laurence William "Bill" Lane Jr. (November 7, 1919 – July 31, 2010) was an American magazine publisher, diplomat, and philanthropist.

Early life and education

Lane was born November 7, 1919, to Laurence William Lane (1890 – February 20, 1967) and Ruth Bell. His father was known as "Larry", so he was generally called "Bill". In 1928, the family moved from Des Moines, Iowa[1] where Larry Lane was advertising director for the Meredith Corporation (publisher of Better Homes and Gardens magazine) to California.[1] The Lane family owned and published Sunset Magazine.[2] Lane graduated from Palo Alto High School.[4]

Bill Lane attended Pomona College before transferring to Stanford University to study Journalism.[3] He was a member of the Stanford Chaparral. After graduating with a bachelor's degree from Stanford, he joined the US Navy during World War II.[3]

He married Donna Jean Gimbel in 1955, they met while she was working as an interior designer in Chicago.[7][4]

Career

As their father phased himself out of the business, Bill took over the Sunset Magazine publishing and brother Melvin (1922–2007) managed the Sunset Books business.[5]

Lane was the first mayor and one of the founders of Portola Valley, California in 1964.[6] From 1975 to 1976, he served as US Ambassador-at-large and lived in Japan. From 1985 to 1989, he was appointed US Ambassador to Australia and Nauru.[7] Ronald Reagan knew Lane from their membership in the Los Rancheros Vistadores horseback riding club.[8][9]

In 1995, Lane was named Conservationist of the Year by the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA).[3]

The Lane publishing business was sold to Time Warner in 1990. In March 1993 he was appointed an honorary officer of the Order of Australia for service to Australian-American relations.[10]

In 2006, Lane received the American Academy for Park and Recreation Administration's Pugsley Medal in 2006 because of his contributions to parks and conservation with advocacy through his magazine, leadership positions on a host of national and regional boards and advisory committees, and personal philanthropy.[11]

Philanthropy, death and legacy

The Lane family were large donors to Stanford University including renovations in 1983 to the Palo Alto Stock Farm Horse Barn[12] and after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, for the reconstruction of the Stanford Memorial Church and other historic campus buildings.[13] In 2005, a donation to Stanford University named the Center for the Study of the North American West department after the Lane family.[14]

The Lanes sponsored an internship program starting in 2002, the Bill and Jean Lane Internship Endowment at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution.[15]

In 2005, Lane and his wife (who graduated from Northwestern University in 1952) funded the Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance.[16] In 2015, an additional $5 million endowment to Northwestern University was announced.[17]

Bill and Jean Lane endowed the [https://environment.wsu.edu/seminars-lectures/lane-lecture/ Lane Family Lectureship in Environmental Science] at Washington State University. The lecture was inaugurated in 1993. With their son, Robert, a 1983 WSU graduate, they also created the Robert Lane Fellowship in Environmental Science to support graduate students studying environmental science at Washington State University.[18]

Bill Lane died on July 31, 2010, at the age of 90.[19] His wife, Jean Lane, died in Portola Valley on 18 November, 2017, after a brief illness, at the age of 87.[4] Together they were survived by their three children, two daughters Sharon Louise Lane and Brenda Lane Munks and a son Robert Laurence Lane.[20]

References

1. ^1 {{cite news |title= Bill Lane turns 90 and is still going strong |newspaper= The Almanac |date=November 5, 2009 |author=Marion Softky |url= http://www.almanacnews.com/news/show_story.php?id=5289 |accessdate= May 25, 2010 }}
2. ^{{cite book |author= Kevin Starr |title= Sunset magazine: a century of Western living, 1898-1998 |chapter= A New Owner, A New Vision |publisher= Stanford University Libraries |year=1998 |url= http://sunset-magazine.stanford.edu/html/body_i__2.html |isbn= 978-0-911221-17-6 |accessdate= May 26, 2010 }}
3. ^1 2 {{Cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/science/la-me-bill-lane-20100805-story.html|title=L.W. 'Bill' Lane Jr. dies at 90; longtime Sunset publisher|last=Nelson|first=Valerie J.|date=|website=latimes.com|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-06-20}}
4. ^1 {{Cite news|url=https://www.almanacnews.com/news/2017/12/04/jean-lane-philanthropist-and-environmentalist-dies-at-87|title=Jean Lane, philanthropist and environmentalist, dies at 87|last=Boyce|first=Dave|date=2017|work=The Almanac|access-date=2018-06-20|language=en}}
5. ^{{cite news |title= Obituary: Sunset's Mel Lane helped save coastlines and open spaces |newspaper= The Almanac |date= August 8, 2007 |author= Marion Softky |url= http://www.almanacnews.com/story.php?story_id=4670 |accessdate= May 26, 2010 |deadurl= yes |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110927181325/http://www.almanacnews.com/story.php?story_id=4670 |archivedate= September 27, 2011 |df= }}
6. ^{{cite news |title= Portola Valley's Bill and Jean Lane honored for their philanthropy |newspaper= The Almanac |date= August 15, 2007 |author= David Boyce |url= http://www.almanacnews.com/story.php?story_id=4708 |accessdate= May 25, 2010 |deadurl= yes |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110927181309/http://www.almanacnews.com/story.php?story_id=4708 |archivedate= September 27, 2011 |df= }}
7. ^{{cite web |title= L. W. Lane, Jr. |work= Council of American Ambassadors web site |year= 2004 |url= http://www.americanambassadors.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Members.view&memberid=125 |accessdate= May 25, 2010 |deadurl= yes |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20070104230129/http://www.americanambassadors.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Members.view&memberid=125 |archivedate= January 4, 2007 |df= }}
8. ^{{cite book |author1=Ronald Reagan |author2=Kiron K. Skinner |author3=Annelise Graebner Anderson |author4=Martin Anderson |title=Reagan: a life in letters |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sIQzbBBcsgcC&pg=PA121 |year=2003 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-0-7432-1966-2 |page=121}}
9. ^{{cite news |title= Reagan and Lane: They rode the range together |newspaper= The Almanac |date=June 16, 2004 |author= Jane Knoerle |url= http://www.almanacnews.com/morgue/2004/2004_06_16.reagan.shtml |accessdate= May 25, 2010 }}
10. ^{{Cite |title= Lane, Laurence William |work= It's an Honour web site |publisher= Australia Government |url= http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=882040&search_type=simple&showInd=true |accessdate= December 23, 2016 }}
11. ^1 {{Cite web|url=http://aapra.org/pugsley-bios/lw-bill-lane-jr|title=L.W. "Bill" Lane, Jr. {{!}} American Academy for Park and Recreation Administration|website=aapra.org|language=en|access-date=2018-06-21}}
12. ^{{Cite web|url=https://web.stanford.edu/group/set/cgi-bin/wordpress/the-stanford-red-barn/history/|title=History|last=|first=|date=|website=Stanford Equestrian|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-06-21}}
13. ^{{Cite web|url=http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/august/bill-lane-obituary-080210.html|title=Bill Lane, Stanford benefactor and Sunset publisher, dead at|date=August 2, 2010|work=Stanford Report|accessdate=December 23, 2016}}
14. ^{{cite web|url=http://news-service.stanford.edu/pr/2005/pr-center-030205.html|title=Bill Lane makes a gift of $5 million to endow Stanford's Center for the Study of the North American West|author=Lisa Kwiatkowski|date=February 25, 2005|publisher=Stanford University|accessdate=May 24, 2010}}
15. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.nmnh.si.edu/rtp/features/bjl_interns.htm|title=Bill and Jean Lane Internship Endowment|date=September 10, 2008|publisher=Smithsonian Institution|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090609112543/http://www.nmnh.si.edu/rtp/features/bjl_interns.htm|archivedate=June 9, 2009|deadurl=yes|accessdate=May 25, 2010}}
16. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.music.northwestern.edu/about/prizes/gimbel-lane-prize/|title=Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance|publisher=Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University|accessdate=December 23, 2016}}
17. ^{{Cite web|url=https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2015/10/5-million-to-fund-renowned-northwestern-piano-award-in-perpetuity|title=$5M to Fund Renowned Northwestern Piano Award In Perpetuity: Jean Gimbel Lane’s generosity brings world-famous pianists to campus|author=Erin Meyer|date=October 8, 2015|work=Northwestern Now|accessdate=December 23, 2016}}
18. ^{{Cite web|url=https://environment.wsu.edu/seminars-lectures/lane-lecture/|title=Lane Family Lecture in Environmental Science {{!}} School of the Environment {{!}} Washington State University|website=School of the Environment|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-05}}
19. ^1 {{Cite news |title= So long to Bill Lane: Valley icon, publisher and philanthropist dies at age 90 |work= The Almanac |author= Dave Boyce |url= http://www.almanacnews.com/news/2010/08/02/so-long-to-bill-lane- |accessdate= December 23, 2016 }}
20. ^{{Cite web|url=https://west.stanford.edu/news/memoriam-jean-lane|title=In Memoriam: Jean Lane|last=|first=|date=|website=The Bill Lane Center for the American West|publisher=Stanford University|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-06-21}}

External links

  • {{cite web|title=The Bill Lane Center for the American West|last=|first=|publisher=Stanford University|date=|work=official web site|url=http://west.stanford.edu|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=}}
  • {{cite web|title=Sunset: How to live in the west|last=|first=|publisher=Sunset publishing Corporation|date=|work=official web site|url=http://www.sunset.com|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=}}
  • {{cite web|title=The Lane Family|last=|first=|publisher=Stanford University|date=|work=The Sunset Bibliography|url=http://sunset-magazine.stanford.edu/html/larrylanbodylane_family.html|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=}}
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