Center for Financial Success
Sunday, September 27th
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During a golf match with WKU friends in early 1988, Louisville accountant and Bowling Green Business University alum Gordon Ford expressed an interest in giving money to the university's capital campaign. After a few more phone calls and luncheon meetings, Mr. Ford finalized his offer to WKU on a handwritten note: $10.6 million. The donation was the largest single gift in the school's history at the time.
The gift was given to the business school later that year, inspiring a name change to the Gordon Ford College of Business.
Mr. Ford was born Sept. 27, 1913 in Greenville, Ky.
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