MONMOUTH COLLEGE RECEIVES $1 MILLION ESTATE GIFT
Release
Date: March 8, 2000
Monmouth College has received a large estate gift from
a friend of the college, according to President Richard Giese.
Giese announced at Tuesday’s monthly meeting of the Monmouth
College faculty that the school has received an estate gift from Keith B. Capron worth over $1
million. It is expected to be used toward a challenge grant from the Carver Charitable Trust
for renovations to the college’s Hewes Library. The college is in the midst of a $5.5 million
fund drive for improvements to the facility.
Capron, who has been a strong supporter of the college
through the years, died Dec. 30, 1999. He is the son of Millie Billings Capron, a student at
Monmouth for two years before the turn of the 20th century. A few years ago, Capron endowed a
chair in the Classics department in her name.
Born in Kirkwood, Ill., in 1902, Capron earned a business
degree from Columbia University and a master’s degree from Harvard University. He worked for
35 years at the Chicago Tribune as an assistant to Col. Robert R. McCormick and then retired
to Colorado Springs, CO.
Released
by the Office of College Communications
Barry McNamara, Associate Director of College Communications
Phone: 309-457-2117
Fax: 309-457-2330
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