<p>perhaps she was thinking of the former UW president when had his house remodeled
<a href=“http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002159787_uwmansion25m.html[/url]”>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002159787_uwmansion25m.html</a></p>
<p>To help pay for the work on the president’s mansion, the university’s Board of Regents tapped $370,000 from the Walker-Ames Fund, an endowment created for “scientific and educational purposes,” according to the bequest. The rest of the tab was paid out of the university’s building-renewal fund.</p>