Article: George Mason U. Gets $20 Million Gift;Bequest From Va. Businessman Will Fund Institute for Scholars

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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