Texas Newspaper Reports on $7.9 Million Gift to UMaine

The San Antonio Express News website, published an Associated Press article about a $7.9 million donation to the University of Maine Foundation by the estate of 1958 UMaine engineering graduate and philanthropist Thomas Hosmer of Massachusetts. The money will support needed maintenance projects on campus and an endowed scholarship and an endowed lab to benefit the UMaine Department of Mechanical Engineering that are both also in Hosmer’s name. A UMaine news release has more information.

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