Washington & Jefferson College will receive a $50 million gift from the estate of the school’s first female trustee to support student scholarships.
Washington & Jefferson College will receive a gift of approximately $50 million to support student scholarships, the institution announced Wednesday. It is the largest philanthropic donation in the college’s 242-year history and one of the largest ever to a liberal arts college in the United States, according to the press release.
Anica Donnan Rawnsley taught school as a young adult, and while she never attended Washington & Jefferson College, she developed an affinity for the place early on through family members who enrolled there and graduated. Now, months after her passing, she has made gift of approximately $50 million to W&J
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