Brandeis University today announced the receipt of $500,000 as a gift from the Charles Hayden Foundation. This non-Jewish gift is the largest individual contribution ever received by the university.
The contribution, according to J. Willard Hayden of Lexington, Mass., president of the Hayden Foundation, will go towards the construction of a million-dollar science building on the University’s 192-acre campus in Waltham. The gift is in keeping with the pattern of philanthropy set up by the Hayden Foundation, in which one-half the total is provided by the Foundation, with the provision that the recipient furnish the remainder.
Dr. Abraham L. Sachar, president of the Brandeis University, also announced today that the University this week received accreditation from the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.
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