University has record in donations

ATHENS - A record $62.7 million in donations and pledges from private sources was received by the University of Georgia in the last fiscal year, officials said Monday. <br> <br> The high was $58.9 million in 1997. <br> <br> The previous fiscal year, ending June 30, 2001, the total was $54.5 million. <br> <br> Last year&#39;s total, a 15 percent increase, included a $3.5 million grant from The Goizueta Foundation to create programs to help better educate Hispanic children, and a $3.3 million undesignated gift from the trust of Winship Nunnally. <br> <br> Other large individual gifts include a $1.7 million bequest to the College of Veterinary Medicine, a $1.5 million gift to the College of Education and a $1 million pledge to the School of Law. <br> <br> Gifts to the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences reached $7.4 million, including $800,000 to endow a professorship in plant biology.

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