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Trucking Magnate Donates $80 Million to University
Michael DeGroote, who, in 1959 bought Laidlaw, a small trucking company and transformed it into a multinational trucking and waste-haulage giant, gave US$80 million to Ontario’s McMaster University's medical school on Wednesday. The money will be divided into a $30-million capital fund for buildings, outfitting laboratories and hospital units, and a $50-million endowment fund. McMaster president Peter