[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 131 (Tuesday, October 8, 2002)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1780-E1781]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    TRIBUTE TO JEAN AND KEITH KELLOGG II UPON THE CALIFORNIA STATE 
  UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES' APPROVAL TO NAME THE CALIFORNIA STATE 
        UNIVERSITY AT SAN MARCOS LIBRARY ``THE KELLOGG LIBRARY''

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                     HON. RANDY ``DUKE'' CUNNINGHAM

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Monday, October 7, 2002

  Mr. CUNNINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Jean and Keith 
Kellogg II upon the California State University Board of Trustees' 
approval to name the California State University at San Marcos Library 
``The Kellogg Library'' in September, 2002.
  For more than 50 years, the Kellogg family has been associated with 
the California State University, first at Pomona and more recently, at 
San Marcos. They beautifully express their belief in the value of 
education on a tile at Cal State San Marcos celebrating its first ten 
years. Keith Kellogg wrote for his tile: ``Education is a window of 
life, through which you find opportunity, success, and happiness.''
  The Kelloggs have taken their love of beauty, learning, and industry, 
and transferred it to the faces of the students who will go on to find 
opportunity, success, and happiness, thanks to the generosity of this 
fine couple.
  Jean and Keith Kellogg II became interested in Cal State San Marcos 
early in its development with a $24,000 gift for discretionary uses in 
1992. A year later, they initiated the Keith and Jean Kellogg 
Scholarship Fund, which now serves as a window of opportunity, success 
and happiness for many fine students entering Cal State San Marcos. 
Mrs. Kellogg takes an active interest in the selection of these 
scholars, and has held dinners with past recipients to see how they are 
progressing in their goals and successes.
  Mr. Kellogg, an avid golfer since playing as part of his college 
team, underwrote the establishment of the Cal State San Marcos golf 
team, and continues to enjoy learning how ``his'' teams are doing, 
competitively.
  Perhaps the most central window the Kelloggs have opened for the 
future of North San Diego County has been in their steady and critical 
support for its university's library. In 1997, Jean and Keith Kellogg 
made a gift of $1 million to begin architectural plans for the 
University Library. This early gift made it possible for the campus to 
qualify for state bond funding. The 1998 election in California 
included a bond issue for construction of the $48 million, 200,000 
square foot building. This will be the signature building for the 
campus, standing five stories and anchoring the University's central 
pedestrian mall. The library will house up to 840,000 volumes and 
provide study areas for more than 1,500 students. Since then, the 
Kelloggs have made an additional gift of $500,000 to complete planning 
documents and ensure the construction of the library would proceed on 
schedule. In 2001, the Kelloggs donated another one million dollars to 
the university, of which $550,000 was used to fund the Reading Room and 
adjacent terraces. Construction for the Library broke ground in the 
spring of 2002 with both of the Kelloggs in attendance at the 
groundbreaking ceremony.

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  Beyond the campus boundaries, the couple is part of the philanthropic 
and civic life of North San Diego County, where they make their home in 
Rancho Santa Fe. Although heir to the famous cereal maker, Mr. Kellogg 
made his own fortune in the paper products business.
  Mrs. Kellogg is a long time civic volunteer and friend of higher 
education. She is active in the Rancho Santa Fe Library Guild, and 
serves as a member of the Scripps Research Institute of Medicine and 
Science Foundation Board.
  The couple received the first President's Distinguished Service 
Awards at commencement in 1998--when they also received a standing 
ovation from the assembled students for their dedication in helping 
establish a permanent library at Cal State San Marcos.
  Universities are built by people. Given the centrality of the Library 
to the academic enterprise, and the centrality of the Kellogg's role in 
developing the campus, the approval by the Trustees to name it the 
Kellogg Library is a broad beam of inspiration through the windows 
these two people have opened to so many in the 51st congressional 
district.

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