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- <title>
- May 03, 1993: A Grateful Grad
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- May 03, 1993 Tragedy in Waco
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 24
- SOCIETY
- A Grateful Grad
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- <body>
- <p>Billionaire John Kluge gives $60 million to his alma mater,
- Columbia
- </p>
- <p> A going-away present from John W. Kluge, chairman of the
- Metromedia Co., can be so generous as to make a person want to
- stay on after all. Last week, at a tribute to Columbia
- University's departing president, Michael I. Sovern, Kluge
- announced that he was giving the university a $60 million gift
- to endow minority scholarships. Kluge's donation is the largest
- ever made to Columbia, and according to the Chronicle of Higher
- Education, it's the sixth largest private gift given to an
- American university or college. Kluge also gave Columbia $25
- million in 1987 and the same amount in 1990. Gushed Sovern:
- "John will go down in history as one of the most generous
- benefactors of higher education there has ever been."
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- </body>
- </article>
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