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[-] IMongoose@lemmy.world 95 points 1 month ago

There was a librarian who saved his whole life and when he passed donated I think 1 million dollars to his old university. That university then spent the money on a new score board for the football field. I bet if he saw that he would have wished he put some stipulations on his donation.

[-] Hazmatastic@lemm.ee 37 points 1 month ago

I have a similar line of thinking. I'm a musician, so if I was filthy rich I might want to donate money to a school's music department. If the school is one fiscal entity, I would have to put that as a stipulation to ensure they gave the money to that department, not divert it to something overfunded or just padding the board's pocket as bonuses for "a job well done"

[-] crank0271@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

If you get filthy rich let's go party together

[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Can I come too? ๐Ÿ˜ณ

[-] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/15/494134464/-1-million-of-frugal-librarians-bequest-to-n-h-school-goes-to-football-scoreboar

The only association between the librarian and the football program that was mentioned by the university was the observation that Morin had spent the past 15 months of his life in an assisted living center โ€” and that there, "he started watching football games on television, mastering the rules and names of the players and teams."

Yeah that sounds like a load of bull from the administrators to justify an extravagant purchase ๐Ÿ™„

[-] hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

That was such a weird story! On one hand, he has been a big supporter of the football program at the school and the scoreboard didn't seem totally unreasonable. But as a former university librarian, the salary is generally under $60k for non-mangers, so saving that $1 million was an amazing feat of savings and the scoreboard seemed like a weird choice by the school.

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