Couple donates $5 million to MU Engineering School
By Don Walker of the Journal Sentinel
Oct. 3, 2011 10:36 a.m.
An alumni couple living in Minneapolis has donated $5 million to Marquette University's College of Engineering to establish an endowed chair in electrical engineering, the school announced Monday.
V. Clayton and Beverly Lafferty are 1950 graduates of the school's College of Engineering and College of Arts and Sciences, respectively.
Lafferty, now 85, spent much of his career as the head of research and development at United Parcel Service, and is the creator of the system used to support the company's package delivery and logistics business.
The couple has also endowed the Lafferty Professorship in Engineering and the Elizabeth and Ray Lafferty Scholarship Fund, named in honor of Clay Lafferty's parents. They also contributed to the building fund for the school's new Engineering Hall.
A search for a person to take the Lafferty Chair is under way.
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