7/21/2012:
Financier Chester Fritz announced a 1 million dollar gift to the University of North Dakota on this date in 1965. Fritz had spent his first two years of college at UND and had previously donated a million dollars for a campus library. When Fritz made the 1965 donation for an auditorium, it was lauded as his ‘second gift’ to the university. However, this was merely one of his many gifts to the school. While a banker in Shanghai during the ‘40s, Fritz donated money for a swimming pool, and in 1956, he set up an annual scholarship fund. After a standing ovation during the dedication of the University Library in 1961, Fritz said that moment was his finest hour.
Dakota Datebook written by Jayme Job
Sources:
http://www.statehistoricalfoundation.com/?id=81&offset=200
http://www.cfa.und.edu/info.html
http://fritzat50.wordpress.com/category/chester-fritz/
Starcher, George W. “The Relations between Chester Fritz and the University of North Dakota,” Eulogy delivered to the Memorial Service for Chester Fritz, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, August 5, 1983.