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...University will receive a gift of $2.2 million dollars in the near future, it was learned last week. The generous benefactress is the late Mrs. Truxton Beale, who last month made another, heretofore anonymous $2 million donation to the University scholarship fund...
Died. Mildred Mudd, 67, widow of California Mining Engineer Harvey Seeley Mudd, onetime (1939-41) national president of the Girl Scouts, benefactress and board chairman of California's new Harvey Mudd College (see EDUCATION); after long illness; in Los Angeles...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art elected Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Sr., 75, widow of the art-amassing publisher, as a benefactress, announced the simultaneous receipt of donations from the Hearst Foundation: three 17th century British interiors, some old chunks of European architecture, a Roman copy in marble of a 5th century B.C. statue of Hermes...
...Joseph Knirim turned up in Vimoutiers determined to honor Marie Harel, "the discoverer of Camembert cheese." "I suffered from indigestion for months," explained Dr. Knirim, "and Camembert was the only food my stomach could absorb. I have carried across the seas this bunch of flowers to honor our common benefactress...
...motto, "Tenco et Tencor" (I hold and I am Holden), and the building's original purpose. Holden remained a chapel for scarcely two decades before becoming the home of the Provincial House of Representatives which had fled from British troops in Boston. A further insult to the British benefactress was the building's transformation into a barrack for 160 Revolutionary soldiers. In 1779, after the infantry had departed, the faculty voted that "The college Engines and Buckets be immediately repaired and plac'd in Holden Chapel." The small building became the College's student-run fire department. For the next...