April 22, 1999

Former Pizza Tycoon Donates $50-Million to Create Law School; Other Gifts

Thomas S. Monaghan, the billionaire founder and former chairman of Domino's Pizza, has donated $50-million to create a Catholic law school.

Mr. Monaghan, who had transformed a small pizza store in Ypsilanti, Mich., into the world's largest pizza-delivery chain, sold his empire last year for about $1-billion and donated part of the proceeds to the Ave Maria Foundation, his private foundation, which supports Catholic education and Catholic charities.

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