P.M. BRIEFING : Notre Dame Given $33 Million
<i> From Times wire services</i>
SOUTH BEND, Ind. —
Ohio businessman Edward J. DeBartolo today gave the University of Notre Dame $33 million--the largest gift the school has ever received.
The gift will underwrite a new academic quadrangle and its anchor buildings, a $16-million project to be known as the Edward J. DeBartolo Classroom Facility. Another $14 million will be used for the Marie P. DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts, named after DeBartolo’s wife who died in 1987.
The rest of the money will finance general development of the quadrangle, which will extend southward on the east side of North Notre Dame Avenue, the main entrance to the campus. Both the classroom facility and performing arts center are scheduled to be opened during 1992, the school’s 150th anniversary year.
