Trinity College Gets A $12.3 Million Gift … 68 Years After Alumnus’s Death

It might not be a perfect example of "giving back," but the gift bequeathed to Trinity College by alumnus Charles Guilford Woodward 120 years after his graduation from the Hartford school is at least a type of "paying it forward." Really forward.

Woodward's gift of $12.8 million, received by the liberal arts college on Thursday, is the remainder of a trust established after his death in 1958. That trust was created to provide for his niece and her children; when the last of those children died recently, the leftover funds, per the Woodward's instructions, were to go to the college.