Quinn Lewis of ExxonMobil presents Dean Parkinson with a donation of $57,000.

October 2008

Representatives from ExxonMobil presented Fulton College Dean Alan Parkinson with a check for $57,000 at a luncheon on Friday.

The largest donation given to date, the company makes an annual contribution to the BYU programs with alumni employed at ExxonMobil. The money will be distributed to the Fulton College of Engineering and Technology, the Marriott School of Management and the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.

The check was presented by Quinn Lewis, a BYU Computer Science alumnus working for ExxonMobil. He was accompanied by several of his co-workers that were also graduates of the university.

During the check presentation, Lewis shared a quote from remarks given by Rex W. Tillerson (then president of ExxonMobil Corporation), to BYU alumni and Dallas-area leaders in 2005.

"The dedication of BYU graduates throughout the world to the ideals of corporate leadership, productive citizenship and service to others is an example greatly admired but rarely equaled.

"ExxonMobil has enjoyed close ties with Brigham Young University for many years, and we continue to value that relationship as an important source from which to recruit outstanding people for our organization.

"I should also point out that nearly 300 of our employees and retirees earned their degrees as cougars before moving on to earn their livelihoods in the company of a tiger."

This gift is in addition to the funds the university receives each spring through the ExxonMobil Foundation's Educational Matching Gift Program. The program matches gifts to affiliated higher education institutions by employees and retirees on a 3-to-1 basis. Since 1962, the company's program has provided more than $372 million to higher education in the United States.