KU's Biggest Individual Donor Dies
Associated Press - Sun 09:56 AM 01/20/2013
The couple gave more than $44 million to the university for various purposes, including fellowships and capital projects.
Madison "Al" Self, a Kansas native who donated more money to the University of Kansas than any other individual donor, has died at the age of 91.
Self died Sunday in Hinsdale, Ill., where he and his wife, Lila, had lived since 1966.
The couple gave more than $44 million to the university for various purposes, including fellowships and capital projects.
Self graduated from the school in 1943 with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering. In 1947 he bought a three-person company named Bee Chemical Company in Illinois.
The company had five U.S. manufacturing facilities and sites in Japan and England when he sold it 37 years later.
University Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little called Self was a visionary who changed the lives of countless students.
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Associated Press information from: The Lawrence Journal-World
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ksfarmdude
Sunday 20 January 2013 11:58 Report this comment
yea typical tycoon outsourcing jobs in other countries probably felt alittle gulity and donated money to ku , bet tuition will skyrocket there now without his freebies
Logical
Sunday 20 January 2013 14:29 Report this comment
...as opposed to "KU taught the guy how to succeed in a global economy. Nice that he gave money back to the place that helped him succeed rather than use the money to buy multiple houses that he didn't really need."