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...bequest amounting to about $400,000, a woman who last attended University Lutheran Church (UniLu) in the late 1940s unexpectedly named the Harvard Sqaure church as the residual beneficiary of her estate...
News of the bequest was made official at the church’s annual meeting in February, but the church’s governing council has been discussing it since December...
...Apart from its spine-chilling sound, the Servais has had a spine-chilling history between its last caress at the hands of the Italian master in Cremona and its arrival at the U.S. museum in 1981, via a bequest. It is a tale that helps to draw the line distinguishing craftsmanship from mass production. Machines give us precision, volume, economy; they have democratized the making of things by putting quality goods within the reach of more than just the rich. But articles whose construction demands the human hand, eye, ear - and, yes - heart, rarely come off a production line...
...money will create the Lester Kissel Presidential Fund for Ethics, as well as the smaller Lester Kissel Endowment in Ethics and Values fund. The bequest will be officially announced Thursday...
Until the Kissel bequest two weeks ago, none of the center's fellowships had a permanent source of funding...