Hennessey: There really isn't such a thing at stamford as enough money. The school's ambitions are always growing, so its endowment should too. Hennessey is a hard cores, strong linker. Ye ought probably about 11 to 22, right? Most of that endowment returns, not mostly gifts, but there's some gifts in there too, obviously.
In the early ’90s, Hank Rowan gave $100 million to a tiny public university in Glassboro, New Jersey: not Harvard, not Yale, not even to his alma mater, MIT. What was Rowan thinking? And why has it proven so difficult for other philanthropists to follow his lead?
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