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Article: George Mason U. Gets $20 Million Gift;Bequest From Va. Businessman Will Fund Institute for Scholars
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- The Washington Post
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- January 8, 1991
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In the biggest donation made in recent years to a Washington
area university, the estate of a Fairfax County businessman has
agreed to give $20 million to George Mason University.
The bequest comes from the estate of Shelley Krasnow, who
founded Georator Corp. of Manassas in 1950 and manufactured
generators and alternators for General Electric, Rockwell
International and the Pentagon.
Krasnow, who lived in a historic house built around a log cabin
in Fairfax, died there of cardiopulmonary arrest on Sept. 25, 1989,
at the age of 82.
The money will be used to establish the Krasnow Institute for
Advanced Study, which had been a dream of Krasnow's for more than 20
years, officials of the ...
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