Columbia University announced yesterday that it had been given more than $2, 000, 000 from the estate of the late Bernard M. Baruch. The funds have been accumulating since the financier’s death in June, 1965.
The grant will be used to expand the facilities of the department of physical medicine and rehabilitation of the University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. University officials said that $560,000 of the gift will be used for endowment of the Simon Baruch Professorship of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, named for Mr. Baruch’s father, which was created in 1961.
One-third of the $2,089,984 bequest will be applied to the $200,000,000 goal announced by the university in its capital funds campaign.
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