The Oregon State University Foundation has given Robert C. Wilson of Corvallis the Lifetime Trustee Award in recognition of his three decades on the OSU Foundation Board of Trustees. Wilson is retiring as a trustee June 30.

The OSU Foundation’s highest honor, the Lifetime Trustee Award, is presented to an individual who has demonstrated outstanding service to the OSU Foundation and to OSU.

Wilson, a 1950 graduate of OSU’s engineering program, is the founder of the Corvallis construction company, Robert C. Wilson General Contractor.

He served 31 years on the OSU Foundation Board of Trustees as well as on the College of Engineering’s advisory board, and he has been an advocate for OSU capital construction with the Legislature.

At OSU, Wilson helped establish the R.C. Wilson Graduate Program in Construction Engineering Management, which allows graduate students to combine their engineering education with business coursework.

He also set up the Robert and Patricia Wilson Scholarship for construction engineering management students, and through the Benton County Foundation, he created the Patricia McEwan Wilson Memorial Fund, named in honor of his late wife.