Lake Forest University, located just north of Chicago in Lake Forest, Illinois, recently got a gift from an alum, a very nice gift. About $7 million to be exact. The donor, who died at the age of 100, wasn’t a captain of industry or a banker or even the founder of an Internet startup. Grace Groner was, instead, a woman who had been adopted by a family and eventually sent to college at Lake Forest. After graduating, she became a secretary at Abbott Laboratories, which was, apparently, the only job she ever had. She remained single throughout her life,...
