Hult, Nils

From Lane Co Oregon

In the 1930s, he was in Lowell and was the school’s student body president, the captain of the school’s basketball team, and the editor of the school newspaper, the Lowell High Broadcaster. Nils Hult died in 1985. Nils Hult served on the University of Oregon Foundation board from 1978 to 1984. He was married to Jewel Hult. Gretchen Pierce was his daughter.

The Hult family operated lumber mills in Lane County for many years, but sold the mills in the 1960s and went into property development. The family contributed $3 million toward construction of Eugene's Hult Center for the Performing Arts in 1982.