June 28, 2001
U. of Va. Gets Pledge of $20-Million to Help Build Basketball Arena; Other Gifts
An anonymous donor has pledged $20-million to the athletics department at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, to help design and construct a basketball arena. The arena, which will also be used for concerts and other special events, is expected to cost $125-million.
Other nonprofit groups that received big gifts:
Appalachian State U. (Boone, N.C.): $10-million from Mariam Cannon Hayes, of Concord, N.C., whose family owned Cannon Mills, a textile company in
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