Submitted by AspireAgain t3_y464wu in todayilearned
Reply to comment by TUGrad in TIL that before Lincoln Center could reward David Geffen's $100 Million donation by renaming "Avery Fisher Hall" to "David Geffen Hall", they had to pay the heirs of Fisher - the original donor - $15 million. Geffen's donation has a provision that requires his name to be on the hall "in perpetuity". by AspireAgain
It’s like Ralph engelstad and the university of North Dakota. Guy was a whack job nazi sympathizer who donated millions to the school and built them all new sports facilities. All under a $1 lease while he was alive and they couldn’t change the mascot name from the Sioux.
He put so many Sioux logos in the hickey arena it cost the school some stupid amount after he died to remove them all. He also gifted $100M to build the hockey arena with the original total to be $50m to build and then the school would get 50m. Well his construction company built it and ran costs up to basically 100M so the school got nothing extra.
It’s a nice arena though. And so is the Betty (named after his wife) and he built a nice complex in thief river falls for the local high school.
Still a trash human being.
Yeah I dunno. Poor and shitty taste yes but I reserve that term for those that actually helped their war movement. Dude was like 12 when the Nazis were defeated.
"However, his casino had an unusual private suite, a “war room” stocked with Nazi posters and other memorabilia, as well as a collection of cars used by Hitler, Mussolini, Göring, and Himmler. On at least two occasions, he used the suite to celebrate Hitler’s birthday, complete with German food and a cake decorated with a swastika. "
Yup I'm with ya. He sold all of that and apologized to the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas. He also made these donations through his foundation. It doesn't excuse his behavior but your leaving out relevant parts of his story.
$8.2 million to the College of Southern Nevada Foundation in Las Vegas to improve school's health sciences program (2008)[20]
An initial $5 million to the Boys and Girls Club to build a new facility, this includes a long-term donation plan that has money allotted for scholarship endowment (2008)[21]
$10 million to Bishop Gorman High School to fund a new campus (2003)[21]
North DakotaEdit
$250,000 to Farm Rescue to help farm and ranch families struck by unexpected crises in North Dakota (2018)[22]
$3 million to Grand Forks' Community Violence Intervention Center benefitting its Safer Tomorrow Road Maps program (2018)
$100 million to the University of North Dakota to build Ralph Engelstad Arena (1998)[23]
$20 million endowment to the University of North Dakota (2007)[17]
Items donatedEdit
Donated General George S. Patton Papers (1918-1944, 1997-1998)[24] and portraits of the U.S. Supreme Court Justices to University of North Dakota valued at nearly $127.5 million[25]
UtahEdit
$6 million to build the Engelstad Shakespeare Theatre in Cedar City, Utah (2016)[26]
As of 2019, the Engelstad Foundation is run by trustees Betty Engelstad, Kris Engelstad McGarry and Jeffrey M. Cooper.[27
Celebrating Hitler birthday is more of a problem than collecting historical artifacts.
Why did they wanna change the mascot?
I'm going to let that be a journey of personal discovery rather than explain.
Good luck.
This marks the first time I’ve ever bookmarked a phrase for future use. Bloody brilliant.
Thanks. It seemed ridiculous to even engage.
Nah idc enough
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I’m assuming some kinda racism? Idk shit about the school or this dude
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