SAN LUIS OBISPO,
Calif. (AP)– An anonymous donor is leaving $60 million to California
Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, in what officials called the
largest-ever bequest to a Cal State campus.
The donor, a former student who doesn’t want his name
released, promised his bequest to the university’s architecture department for
unrestricted use. The money will be given to the department when the donor
dies.
“We’re respecting his privacy so that people won’t try
to track him down for all the wrong reasons,” said R. Thomas Jones, dean of the
College of Architecture and Environmental Design.
The university would only say he was a former Cal Poly
student who never completed his architecture degree because of financial
hardship. The donor went on to have a successful career as an entrepreneur, the
university said.
The largest donation to Cal Poly previously was the
former Unocal Corp.’s pier in Avila Beach in 2001 and an associated endowment —
together valued at about $28 million.
Information from: The Tribune,
http://www.sanluisobispo.com
Copyright 2007 The Associated
Press.