Years later, Iowa Wesleyan returns donor’s gift
BPC Staff Mar 2, 2020 | 9:10 pm
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107 wordsAll Latest News, Arts and Culture, EducationEnding a yearslong saga, Iowa Wesleyan University last week mailed a $45,000 check to a Chicago branch of Volunteers of America, effectively returning an endowment its donor asked to be remitted after learning the private college had stopped using it according to his wishes, reports the Cedar Rapids Gazette. Donor Scott Humphrey created the endowment in his father C.E. “Bud” Humphrey’s memory in 2007 to support scholarships for members of Wesleyan’s golf team. In 2017, Humphrey inquired and learned the school had stopped awarding scholarships from his family fund at least five years earlier and never told him, prompting Humphrey’s request that it return the gift.