Posted on 06/26/2005 10:46:04 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Henry Samueli and Arturo “Arte” Moreno have a few things in common. They’re both billionaires, Republicans and Orange County pro sports team owners.
Moreno is a fourth-generation American of Mexican descent. He served in Vietnam right after high school and returned to earn a degree from the University of Arizona.
Samueli’s parents survived the Holocaust and emigrated from Poland to the U.S. in 1950. After settling in Buffalo, the family moved to West Hollywood when Samueli was a boy. He later earned three degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles.
The Samuelis have made more than $150 million in charitable gifts during the past decade, including nearly $30 million to the University of California, Irvine, which named its engineering school after him.
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