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Please don’t stop the music
Please don’t stop the music Retired physician Ernest Butler and his wife Sarah, long-time musical arts connoisseurs, have given The University of Texas’ School of Music quite a gift – $55 million dollars. This gift is the second-largest that UT has ever received, superseded only by the John A. Jackson estate’s gift of $245 million to the School of Geosciences. The Butlers’ gift is more than the School of Business got from Red McCombs – $50 million.
About two-thirds of the money will go toward scholarships, and the rest will go toward faculty support. The school will be renamed The Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music.
It’s wonderful to see such support of the arts!
Via Statesman.com
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Ummm they could have given one mill to me and 54 to the school. That would have been sweet.
Must be nice to have a spare “whatever” 55 mill.