Professor's wife makes $250,000 bequest

The late Anna Mary White, wife of the late Frederick E. White, a former Boston College physics professor, has made a bequest of $250,000 to Boston College.

During his 38-year tenure at Boston College, Professor White was acting chairman of his department, a member of the pre-medical and pre-dental advisory committee, and assistant dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He also served as moderator of Sigma Phi Sigma, the University physics club, and as acting director of the National Science Foundation Institute for Teachers of High School Physics.

"Fred had a sense of continuity and constancy that had influence on his colleagues as well as his students," said University Historian Thomas H. O'Connor '49, MA'50. "He was a visible and lovable part of the Boston College community. He was somebody that everybody saw and everybody knew. The Whites clearly believed deeply in Boston College."

In recognition of this gift and of Professor White's many contributions to the sciences at Boston College, the University will name an area in the newly renovated Higgins Hall, home of the biology and physics departments, in honor of the Whites.


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