Philanthropist Gatton Gives $20 Million For UK Student Center

University of Kentucky

Muhlenberg County native Bill Gatton has made another multi-million dollar donation to the University of Kentucky.  The 82-year-old businessman-turn-philanthropist has given $20 million toward the expansion of the student center at UK. The Herald-Leader reports it follows a $14 million donation to the university in 1995.

Gatton is the namesake for WKU’s Gatton Academy, an institution that’s been named the best public high school in America multiple times by a national publication.

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