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Les Wexner donates $100 million to Ohio State

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Buckeye86

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I do not choose to discuss it
I wonder if he wants to help decide who the next football coach will be?

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Ohio State University is about to receive the largest gift in its history.

Leslie H. Wexner, his wife and the foundation of the company he founded will donate $100 million to the university in what OSU President E. Gordon Gee calls "a transformative moment" for the school.

"It's been obvious to me over the past 30 years that Ohio State is the most important institution in this community," said Wexner, founder of Limited Brands and current chairman of the OSU board of trustees. "The breadth of all the things the university does touches almost all parts of human endeavor."

To date, the largest single gift to Ohio State was $30 million, which Columbus lawyer Michael E. Moritz gave OSU's law school in 2001.
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Gee says most of the money will go towards the Medical Center, James Cancer Hospital, and the Solove Research Institute.

The gift is in cash, apparently, and will be donated in installments over the next 9 years.
 
I think he and the University could benefit every bit as much if he donated $99 million to tOSU and $1 million to the Human Fund, which I now happen to manage. :paranoid:
 
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OSUsushichic;1875552; said:
He obviously wants to redesign the football uniforms. :paranoid:
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So much for numbers on the shoulder pads.
 
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I grew up in New Albany, Les bought our house in 88 and moved us across town. Had my dad known what was coming, he would have held out a lot longer because our house was right off of Reynoldsburg New Albany road and is now part of Bobby Rahal's estate if i'm correct. Sold way to early.


but that's a large donation. Good to see him doing something with all that money.
 
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