April 23, 2004

Rollins College to Receive $93-Million Gift, Its Largest Ever

By ERIN STROUT

Rollins College announced last week the largest gift in its history, a $93.3-million bequest from a 1935 graduate.

George Cornell, a longtime trustee of the college who died last year, had previously donated two $10-million gifts through the bequest in 1999 and 2001 -- one for a scholarship fund in memory of his wife, Harriet Wilkes Cornell, the other to endow the Rollins presidency.

The college, in Winter Park, Fla., will receive half of the latest portion of the gift this

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