OSU dental school receives record $3M gift

COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio State University’s College of Dentistry has received the largest single gift in its history: about $3 million from the estate of a Toledo couple.

The school says the money from Dr. Richard Veler and his wife, Betty, will go toward scholarships that will help recruit new dental students.

Dr. Veler graduated from the College of Dentistry in 1946 and two years later gave a gift of $10, the first in a long series of contributions that included the creation of a scholarship endowment. Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee says both Velers were “remarkably generous” to the university.

Dr. Veler died in 1998 at the age of 77. Betty Veler was 90 when she died last month.