A long-time benefactor of UW-Madison has left more than $16.5 million to various university programs as part of her estate.
Ethel K. Allen, known to friends as “Toddy,” died on May 7 at age 98. Allen received her bachelor’s degree in botany in 1928 and a master’s degree in bacteriology in 1930 from the University of Wisconsin. Those departments will receive more than $412,000 each.
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