She traveled the world and made millions of dollars on investments.
Yet at the end of her life, it was neither scrapbooks nor extravagance that Mildred Dorothy Sommer took with her to a nursing home.
It was her 1928 diploma from the University of Michigan.
Sommer, a librarian from Cleveland Heights, Ohio, now will help countless others attend the university she loved.
She died last year at age 100, leaving $5.2 million, the bulk of her fortune, to fund graduate fellowships at U-M’s College of Literature, Science and the Arts.
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A parent is just a parent but an alma mater is a mother.
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