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Duck Store boss goes out on top

It was late 2001 and, with Oregon site de maillot de foot playing in the Fiesta Bowl on New Year's Day, McKenzie by Sew On was running a hurry up offense to meet maillot de football aldonys pas cher the high demand for Ducks sportswear.

Suddenly, acheter maillot de foot owner Ted Norman got word that Duck Store General Manager Jim Williams was on the phone. He wanted to know how much the store owed the apparel printing company. May 31 to celebrate Williams' retirement after 40 years as a manager.

"He cares about people, cares about the store, cares about his family and is just hip and cool, even for an old guy," says Natalie Eggert, the store's human resources team leader.

If all you looked at was the boxscore, Williams' legacy would be impressive. As general manager for the past 36 years, he took the 501(c) nonprofit store independent of the University of Oregon from $3 million to $40 million in sales and from 50 to 250 employees (450 during the 2010 11 BCS Championship madness).

In that same stretch, the store has given students back more than $20 million in textbook discounts.

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You're more likely to hear maillot de foot discount about how he swung a deal with then Athletic Director Bill Moos for a Duck Shop in the Moshofsky Center next to Autzen Stadium while the two fished the McKenzie from Williams' drift boat. Or how, when Disney threatened to quash the use of Donald's image as the Duck mascot, Williams dug in his webbed feet to do battle.

"He was honestly prepared to go to jail over that one," says Jim Terborg, the UO's Carolyn S. Chambers Professor of Management and a member of The Duck Store board. "It showed his love for the university, for the Duck Store maillot de foot pas cher and, of course, the Duck mascot."

Williams, who grew up in Lincoln City, started stocking shelves at the bookstore as a student at the UO, from which he graduated in 1968 with a maillots foot pas cher marketing degree.

In 1972, after Williams returned from Vietnam as an Army stenographer, outgoing manager Jerry Henson handpicked the 28 year old as his replacement only the third person to head the store in what's now maillot de foot a 92 year history.

"It was as if he gave me the keys," says Williams, "and said, 'Take good care maillot de foot pas cher chine of the place.'"

Williams' modest office has a few awards placed on the walls including the 2009 National Association of College Stores' humanitarian award but what's meant as much to him was Henson's widow telling him, "Jerry would have been proud of you."

Now, Williams will pass the keys to Arlyn Schaufler, 52, the merchandise manager nouveau maillot de foot 2015 who's been at the store for 31 years.

"He has some skill sets I don't have," Williams says. "He's much more sophisticated in business matters."

It was never a job, he said, but a joy.

"To quote Lou Gehrig: 'I feel like I'm the luckiest man on the face of the earth,'" Williams says.

Williams' success emerged from a blend of Will Rogers common sense and a thirst for adapting to the times. His credos: Manage from the heart. beerbux Use common sense. maillot de foot personnalisé Do the right thing. If you make a mistake, fix it. Think long term. And, in the end, it's about people.

"He's what you might call a servant leader," Terborg says.

He's also a "let's try it" guy. He spearheaded changing the UO Bookstore name to The Duck Store. And expansion from the single location at 13th Kincaid to 12 sites beyond, including shops in Portland, Beaverton, Clackamas and Bend.

Not everything he's backed has worked. The idea of selling maillot de foot france 2014 car stereos flopped back in the '80s, Terborg says. But under Williams' leadership, the store added Mac computers and, of course, grew DuckWear sales korssell into mind boggling bar chart flocage maillot de foot regions.

Two years ago, The Duck Store made far more money on the sale of one football related item the "I Love pawsbros My Ducks" shirts for which Williams brokered the deal than the bookstore made on all football related sportswear in 1975. Back then, the tcgc2c store did $300,000 worth of sales on football maillot football pas cher related items in a season; now, it does far more in a single weekend.

So, why leave now? "There's more to life than work," he says. "I have an amazing wife, Bonnie; two wonderful daughters; two sons in laws and five grandchildren."