APPLETON, Wis. (AP) - Lawrence University officials say a
graduate is giving $10 million to the Appleton school.
The graduate chose to remain unnamed but the donation ranks
second in school history only to $16 million given by an anonymous
donor in 2006 for construction of a campus center.
The $10 million future gift will support the college's endowment
and establish a new endowed professorship in Lawrence's
Conservatory of Music.
A portion of the gift also will be used to bolster the endowment
for Bjorklunden (beh-YORK'-luhn-den), Lawrence's 425-acre northern
campus and retreat in Door County.
Lawrence President Jill Beck called the gift "remarkable in its
scale and in the hopes it embodies for the future" for the liberal
arts college and conservatory.
