Word: philanthropists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Funds for Discovery program, endowed last spring by inventor and philanthropist John F. Taplin, will support 10 projects involving an issue of biological importance in human biology or medicine each year...
Katherine Bogdonovich Loker, a Philanthropist and past donor to the University, presented the gift at a dinner last night attended by 240 alumni, faculty, administrators and students...
...thing to give a philanthropist a building and quite something else to give him a whole college. The Rowan gift in fact did not gladden everybody at Glassboro. At least one alumnus has threatened to go to court, charging that the trustees, in a fit of non campus mentis, have simply sold the college to Rowan. That complaint may not be fair, but it does raise the question of what it takes to buy into an institution of learning nowadays. If Glassboro can be bought, as it were, for $100 million, you can probably get Yale for $109 million...
Just days before Aramony resigned, the United Way's executive committee gave him a unanimous vote of confidence. But when philanthropist Walter Annenberg, who donated more than $400,000 to United Way chapters last year, urged him to step down, a psychological dam broke. Aramony submitted his resignation Wednesday night, telling the executive committee in a letter that he was leaving "for the greater good of the organization...
...true that the city of Boston has a legacy of racism and that many have seen the Larry Bird-Dave Cowens Celtics as the White team in a Black league. It may also be true that Auerbach is "no genius or philanthropist." In fact, the issues raised in The Selling of the Green--race, money, even the NBA's supposed alliance with the Celtics--are thought-provoking...