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...gift of $70,000 from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation of Portugal was the largest single contribution. The bequest from the late international oil magnate's will was the first awarded by the foundation in America...
Last week Columbia announced the last payment received from Henry Krumb. E.M. '98, D.Sc. (hon.) '51, who died last December: a bequest that may reach $10 million-one of the largest ever made to the university. Of the $6,500,000 or so available now, Krumb directed that about $3,000,000 be given to the university's first-rate engineering school to help pay for a proposed $22.5 million engineering center. But the wording of his will showed Engineer Krumb's real love...
...need to bother the college at the time, but in her will she directed that some $200,000 be held and invested by a Rhode Island bank until it grew to $400,000, then given to Smith. By last week, when Smith got the belated news, the Clarke bequest had grown to $430,000 and was ready to be turned over to the college...
Through the Program for Harvard College, Augustus S. Cobb '07 has donated an addition to the William Pennoyer Bequest, one of the College's oldest scholarship funds...
...unspecified amount was designated in part to the Bequest and also to the establishment of a new scholarship fund...