Donor’s Descendant Sues Brandeis U. Over Planned Demolition
May 13, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
The great nephew of a 1950s donor to Brandeis University has filed suit to prevent the school from razing a science building named for his great uncle, reports The Wall Street Journal.
Brandeis has announced plans to demolish the facility named for Julius Kalman, a real-estate magnate who left property worth $1.8-million to the Boston-area school when he died in 1956. The college is building a major new science center named after donor Carl Shapiro, founder of the clothing company Kay Windsor.
Sumner Kalman maintains that the planned demolition violates the terms of his great uncle’s will, which specified a gift for a building.
