Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1920 — DEPAUW GIFTS AMOUNT TO $411,041 [ARTICLE]

DEPAUW GIFTS AMOUNT TO $411,041

Dr. George Grouse, president of DePauw University at Greencastle announces gifts to that institution of $411,045. The donors are Edward Rector of Chicago for a permanent endowment of the Edward Rector scholarship foundation, $375,000; for library and books, $100; for loan for students, SIOO. Scholarships of SIOO each from J. B. Rubel of LaPorte; Mrs. Gertrude Garry Sutcliffe, of Chicago, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Howes, of Chicago. The Methodist districts of the Indiana conference, including Mtmcie, Ft. Wayne, Richmond, Klokomo, Crawfordsville, Seymour, and Indianapolis have each contributed scholarships pf SIOO. The Y. M. C. A. gave scholarships amounting to 189. The 63rd artillery, through Col. R. L. Moorehead gave SSOO for a loan fund for students. The board o fhome missions and church extention of the Methodist Episcopal church gave a war emergency scholarships for the returned soldiers students which amounts to $6,356. Mr. and Mrs. Ira B. Blackstock, of Springfield, 111., gave $25,000 for a new atthletic field, which by a vote of the trustees is -to be named Blackstone Athletic field. Mrs. Emma Pattern Weaver, widow of Col. James Riley Weaver, contributed to the university books from the private library of Col. Weaver, including several volumes formerly belonging to Bishop Matthew Simpson. John T. Wingate, of Wingate, gave a complete set of autographed works of James Whitcomb Riley and auso an autographed set of''the works of Gen. Lew Wallace. President Grouse also announces that the canvass for the retired teachers’ fund of SIOO,OOO had been completed by a subscription of $104,000, the money being subscribed by four hundred different persons.