Center for Appropriate Transport youth in need of a hands-on education. CAT is an alternative education program registered with the Oregon Department of Education and as such is one of the few publicly funded bicycle schools in the United States. Center for Appropriate Transport The Center for Appropriate Transport (CAT) is a non-profit community center dedicated to bicycles and alternative transport located in Eugene, Oregon, United States. CAT holds publicly funded educational workshops for teaching youth from ages 12 to 21. Within the facility there is a public bicycle repair workspace and a bike machine-shop for the design and manufacture of special-purpose bikes, particularly
Marc Eugene Meyer Marc Eugene Meyer Marc Eugene Meyer (1842–1925) was an American businessman who served as president of Lazard Frères in the United States. Meyer was born to a Jewish family, the son of Sephora Loeb Meyer, in Strasbourg, France. His father, Isaac was a rabbi and was a member of Strasbourg's civilian government; his grandfather Jacob, also a rabbi, was appointed by Napoleon I to the Congress of Jewish Notables to help delineate the legal status of French Jews. His brother-in-law, Zadoc Kahn, was the Grand Rabbi of France. After his father's death in 1859, 17-year-old Meyer left Strasbourg and emigrated