Donor of $350 Million Cornell Gift Is Identified
Atlantic Philanthropies, whose gift will be critical in building Cornell’s new
high-tech school on Roosevelt Island in New York City, was founded by Charles F.
Feeney, a Cornell alumnus who made billions of dollars through Duty Free
Shoppers. Mr. Feeney, 80, has spent much of the last three decades giving away
his fortune. Cornell officials revealed in 2007 that he had given some $600
million to the university over the years, yet nothing on its Ithaca campus,
where he was graduated from the School of Hotel Management in 1956, bears his
name.
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