As members of the MILR Class of 1986, John O’Donnell, Andrew Slentz and Stephen Keyes were close friends with a shared admiration for their labor and employment law professor, Michael Evan Gold.
They have stayed in touch and supported one another ever since.
This past spring, O’Donnell established a scholarship in Gold’s name and invited Slentz and Keyes to join him on campus for an event honoring their former professor. They not only agreed to attend – despite Keyes’ seven-hour drive from Columbus, Ohio – but offered to contribute. The resulting Michael Evan Gold Scholarship, for which Gold says he is deeply gratified, will be awarded to ILR undergraduates with financial need.
O’Donnell took two courses with Gold, whom he found to be “an intellectually demanding teacher. And I appreciated that. The skills Michael taught me in terms of analyzing and thinking things through became an asset not only in my career, but in the rest of my life.”
O’Donnell spent most of his career as a field examiner in the National Labor Relations Board’s Washington, D.C., office. When Gold’s son lived in D.C., they met often and became friends.
“I've learned that writing a check is one thing, but if you can honor somebody and spread goodwill in the process, that makes it even more rewarding,” O’Donnell says, in explaining why he recognized Gold in this way.
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