Word: clarita
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last fall Heiress Clarita Crosby, who had visited the campus once in 1978, left Sewanee $5 million. And in the past two decades the school has received gifts ranging from $1,000 to $113,000 from people with no obvious connection. Williams, in fact, may have had the strongest tie: his grandfather, the Rev. Walter E. Dakin, graduated from the divinity school in 1895. The original Williams will, dated September 1980, created a Walter E. Dakin Memorial Fund for creative writers and left the Williams papers to Sewanee. A codicil, dated December 1982, gives the papers to Harvard and puts...