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The Schuyler Fortune IV: Raspberry-6
Eric sat in his office at the Schuyler Museum a week later, going over his Grandmother's life and death in his mind once again. He thought that her care at the University of Oregon Medical Center in Portland was pretty special. They had gone way above and beyond basic care for someone they had never met.
He picked up the telephone and called the Chairman of the Board of the Medical Center. It took some time to get the number, a shorter time to make the call and on the other coast, a lady answered, "Dr. Rowen here, how may I help you?"
"Hello. You don't know me but my Grandmother, Carol Schuyler-Jones was treated in the University of Oregon Medical Center in Portland recently. She received excellent treatment; unfortunately, she died there due to natural causes having nothing to do with the hospital whose staff gave great care. I understand that you are the Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Medical Center."
"Yes, I am. What is your name, sir?"
"Oh, sorry, I'm Eric Schuyler-Jones of New York City."
"The purpose of my call is to explore what I might do in a concrete way to thank the doctors and nurses, the staff, and the Medical Center."
"My intent is to give one billion dollars to the Medical Center and before that happens, I am curious to know what that money will go for and if my grandmother's name might be placed on the project."
As usual, that sum of money produced an initial silent reaction. Eric was used to that. He imagined the wheels turning. "Is this guy for real or..."
"Wow. I'm afraid a hasty answer might not be the best answer, Mr. Schuyler-Jones. I'm thinking I would like to speak with my Board and the Administrator, review our strategic plan and get some ideas to you in a timely way. Does that sound OK?"
"Sure. Let me first send you the contact information about the Schuyler trust, whose sole beneficiary I am, so that you may verify my identity and the offer. Shall I have them call you or would you like their telephone number or if you like, I can provide the contact name and address and telephone number and banking reference in New York if you give me your email address."
She gave him her email address and thanked him for his call. Within ten minutes, a telephone rang at the Schuyler Financial trust Bank. Dr. Rowen asked for the office of the president of the bank and a secretary answered, asked the caller to hold for a moment and in a moment, she was talking to that person.
"I would like to verify an astonishing offer from a Mr. Eric Schuyler-Jones of one billion dollars to the University of Oregon Medical Center in Portland, Oregon. This is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Dr. Rowen."
"Eric told me you might call. First of all, the offer is genuine. The Schuyler trust is an enormous private trust and he is the sole beneficiary or owner of that trust. He answers to no one in philanthropic decisions and he has that amount reserved with us in his accounts here at Schuyler bank for this donation."
"Second, if it would be helpful to you and your Board, I can fax a letter from our Bank that is owned, by the way, by the Schuyler trust, on our letterhead with my signature, notarized, verifying the donation offer subject to final approval from your Board and working out the details between Eric and you and your Board about the nature of the project and his Grandmother's name on the project."
"I will then have the original sent by courier to you so that you will have the notarized verification in your hands tomorrow morning. May I have your fax number?"
"Please feel free to speak with your CFO and tell him that we are prepared to wire the funds within six hours of receipt of request to a verified UOMC account which he must provide or a satisfactory intermediary bank. Another option that some prefer is to receive a check. That must be done by an officer of UOMC coming to New York to sign for the check and be bonded or in some rare cases, we can send the check by licensed, bonded private courier service. We vastly prefer to wire large amounts directly."
"Third, Mr. Schuyler-Jones prefers zero publicity about his philanthropy. He is aware that people talk, but he insists on no public statements in any media about the donation. He has already spoken to you about his grandmother's name on the project, but even that will require a signed agreement of institutional silence in any media about the gift."
"These provisions are meant to protect his privacy. He also prefers no organized response such as celebrations, parties, gatherings, thank-you statements or resolutions of any kind. The gift is his primary reward."
Some years later, the neurological/neurosurgery joint department's residency and research program headed by one Dr. Kerry, located in a very large and well-equipped new building compared by many to the University of Iowa, the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, and other premier neurological training and research centers, solved the problem and found the cure for multiple sclerosis and with another center jointly found a new treatment which stopped Parkinson's Disease at early diagnosis.
At the Carol Schuyler Neurological Institute at Oregon Health Sciences University.
The memorial service at the Riverside Church in Manhattan was packed with artists, curators, museum directors from all over the globe, family, bankers, financiers, mayors, governors, an ex-President of the United States, the richest man in the world and his twin, and three great-grandsons all dressed to the nines to honor grandma Carol that day.
Security was tight. The Secret Service and Schuyler security were there. The massive organ played and Blossom Taneesha Jones, RN eulogized her old friend.
"Our sons loved and married each other. Michael and Marcus adopted twin sons who love their families. Eric and Loren are here today with their families. Carol's daughter, Barbara, is also here today with her family. My friend, Carol Schuyler was a fountain whose cooling spray of love, knowledge, and generosity endeared her to us and to her Savior. May God watch over her sleep until that great day when Jesus will return to waken her, to catch us all up in the air to be with Him for all time."
The family sat in a large room at the Schuyler Museum to hear Carol's will. A well-dressed older man with thick brown hair walked into the room with a briefcase, glanced over his eyeglasses at them and was waved to a place near the head of a large conference table. He took a thick sheaf of papers out of the briefcase, introduced himself as the Senior Partner of a prestigious law firm in Manhattan, which ordinarily, he said, specialized in international finance, but had accepted a client, one Carol Schuyler-Ross, now Carol Schuyler of New York City and Hillsboro, Oregon.
His task that day was to review her last will and testament for the family.
"I have seen many wills, many kinds of wills over the years. This one is unique."
"The goal of many persons is to influence the world around them, sometimes in an effort to control events and people with the threat or lure of money, property, influence through the giving or withholding of any or all of the above filtered and controlled by behavior of some kind or another."
"There are other people who give all to their cat or some other animal. Others leave all to a cause of some kind. Others think to gain points above by leaving money to a religious charity or church."
"To give wealth out of pure love, with acceptance of behaviors both visible now and those unforeseen is special and not particularly common."
"As you know, Carol Schuyler inherited a large fortune from her father, Frank Schuyler of Pennsylvania, she, unfortunately, was in a coma for many years, her son Michael inherited as beneficiary of the Schuyler trust and upon his death, his son Eric Schuyler-Jones became the sole owner and beneficiary which status continues."
"Along the way, Carol Schuyler's other grandson, Loren Schuyler-Jones has invested the Schuyler trust and its associated trusts and funds faithfully, increasing Carol's own money entrusted originally by her to a bank in Cheyenne, Wyoming."
"Let me begin."
"I, Carol Schuyler, of Manhattan and Hillsboro, Oregon, state that I make this last will and testament, being of sound mind. I had hoped to make this document very short but am informed that a listing of my fortune and assets would, of necessity, lengthen the will."
"There is one Appendix to this will, Appendix A. That Appendix lists all of my fortune and assets."
"The rest of the will is simple. I hereby give, with no reservations or qualifications of any kind, all of my real estate in Hillsboro including house, property, appurtenances, garden, garden tools, household appliances, utensils, and household items within to Blossom Taneesha Jones RN."
"I hereby give all of my money, stocks, bonds and other financial instruments to be divided equally between one grandson, Jack Darnell, Jr. and my four beloved great-grandsons, Mateo Jerry Robert Schuyler-Jones, Paulo Michael Marcus Schuyler-Jones, Joseph Loren Marcus Schuyler-Jones and James Eric Michael Schuyler-Jones."
"Those monies will be in a trust for them to be invested by Loren Schuyler-Jones or his successor at the Schuyler trust and other Funds and dispensed before they reach the age of twenty-one years of age only if a unanimous consent of their six Trustees is present, then available to them in yearly increments after they turn twenty-one years of age again with the consent of four of the six Trustees, including their parents if alive and competent. If a Trustee dies or is declared incompetent, the beneficiary of the Schuyler trust will appoint a replacement."
"The initial Trustees will be their six parents."
"My personal gem collection is in a bag in my jewelry safe deposit box in my Hillsboro, Oregon bedroom. It consists of large perfect yellow diamonds, sixteen of them in total and other loose sapphires, rubies and emeralds. These belong to me, not the Schuyler trust. I want the sixteen yellow diamonds to be placed into a bag and each of four persons to draw by feel, in turn, one diamond from that bag until each person has four diamonds."
"Those four persons are Barbara Ann Darnell, Hannah Jane Darnell, Brent George William Schuyler-Jones and Selene Margaret Schuyler-Jones, my beloved daughter, granddaughter and my beloved grandson's spouses. That is part of my bequest to them. The last part of my bequest to them is that the other gems in the jewelry safe deposit box be either divided between them as above or if at least three out of the four of them agree, that they all be sold, and the resulting income be divided equally among them."
"My Caravaggio I bequeath to the person who will appreciate it the most, Brent George William Schuyler-Jones, since he studied the painter in his senior paper."
"My Louis XV Savonnerie carpet circa 1750, I bequeath to my daughter, Barbara Darnell, who remembers it from my sitting room in Pennsylvania."
"The most important bequest is the one I leave to you all is a request. The request is that you live for Jesus. I want to see all of you again. I beg you to give your lives to Him and to commit your energy and resources into spreading the good news of His soon return. I love you all more than words can say."
Given this day in April 2025 Carol Schuyler
The attorney asked if there were any questions, looked at Eric as beneficiary of the Schuyler trust, told him that his firm stood ready to be of any assistance they could provide in carrying out the provisions of the Will and thanked the family for their time. He bid them good day, picked up the Will, stowed it in his briefcase and left the room.