Thiel College to fund honors program with Dietrich gift
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Thiel College announced it will use the $25 million bequest from the late businessman William S. Dietrich II to fund an honors program named for his parents, who graduated from the school in the 1930s.
The gift from Mr. Dietrich, a steel executive who passed away in October, was the largest in the Greenville college's 145-year history. Mr. Dietrich also gave astonishing sums of money to University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University and the United Way.
The Kenneth and Marianna Brown Dietrich Honors Program "will expand and deepen the existing Thiel College honors program, creating over time a program that is accessible, integrated into the wider curriculum and featuring a wide variety of honors activities and academic offerings," a news release from the school said.
First Published February 13, 2012 9:24 am
