Surprise gift largest ever for Pittsburgh seminary
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) received a surprise gift of $20.25 million.
Robert Thomson, an insurance company owner who died in September at age 94, did not tell the school about his estate plans, nor did he place restrictions on the gift, said William Carl, seminary president.
“These are wonderful surprises,” Carl told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “This is the biggest gift that has ever come from anyone, living or deceased, in the over-220-year history of the school.”
