March 11, 2005

Iowa State Restores Misspent Donation

By ERIN STROUT

Iowa State University's College of Agriculture has repaid the university's endowment for $205,939 of a donation that, officials admit, had been spent against the donor's wishes.

Jessie V. Coles, a 1915 graduate of Iowa State, bequeathed her family's 285-acre farm to the institution before she died, in 1976. She stipulated that the rent and income from the farm be used to subsidize agriculture research and scholarships.

But in 2002, Catherine Woteki, dean of the agriculture

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