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The University of Southern California will announce Wednesday its largest donation ever, a $200-million gift from alumnus David Dornsife, the chairman of a large steel fabricating company, and his wife, Dana.
The Dornsifes' donation will go to USC's College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, the university's biggest academic unit, without restrictions on how it should be spent.
As a single donation, it beats USC's previous record of $175 million from "Star Wars" creator George Lucas, given in 2006, to build a new home for the university's film school, which he attended.
David Dornsife, 67, is chairman and majority owner of Herrick Corp., a Stockton-based firm that has fabricated steel for many of the signature skyscrapers and civic projects in Los Angeles, San Francisco and other cities. The privately held company has plants in Stockton and San Bernardino, as well as Texas, Mississippi and Thailand, and employs about 2,000 people.
In another life I attended USC.
In another life, I helped pull 'smart wire'(2coax/2fiber optic/2CAT5 cables bundled together) through his Mr. Dornsife's house in Danville when he constructed it in the 90's.
ReplyDeleteIncredible, isn't it, what one man can do in a lifetime.
ReplyDeleteI'm impressed with his generosity.