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Stipends up to $4000 for the academic year and up to $5000 for the full year will be granted to facilitate the graduate training of secondary school teachers and administrators. The donor specifically expressed the hope that Southern Negro educators would be among the beneficiaries...
...Prague-born, retired Cash Register Salesman Karl D. Umrath, 76, who migrated to the U.S. in 1902 and started as a $6-a-week floor sweeper, was disclosed as the anonymous donor of $1,000,000 to Washington University a year ago, when his wife last week gave the school another $200,000. The Umraths, still living in the modest brick house in St. Louis in which they were married 55 years ago, seemed unlikely bets for anybody's fund-raising list. But Umrath started investing when he arrived in the U.S., during the Depression picked up blue-chip...
Last week WBAI-FM began broadcasting under new ownership-California's Pacifica Foundation-and Donor Schweitzer's ideal was getting a good run for his money. The station's program is crowded with excellent music, also makes room for viewpoints that would make many a network executive's brush cut burst into flame...
Vanderbilt's gift to the College followed close after his $1.4 million donation toward the new Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine. A former President of the Board of Trust of Vanderbilt University, he has long been a generous donor to University projects...
...last week. Work will begin immediately on a Center for the Study of World Religions, where believers from all over the world may live, talk and seek to understand each other's faiths. Funds for the center were supplied by an estate that insists on anonymity-the same donor who last year endowed Harvard's first professorship in world religions. And the man who occupies that chair-Canada's topflight Theologian Robert Slater-will head the new center...