Gifts to Guilford College total nearly $5 million

GREENSBORO — Students at Guilford College are getting some help to improve their fitness.

The liberal arts school said Monday that it received $2 million to help build a planned student fitness center in Greensboro. The McMichael Family Foundation made the donation, which will cover about a quarter of the center’s $8 million cost.

The News & Record of Greensboro reported that the foundation is connected to the late Dalton McMichael Sr., a longtime resident of nearby Madison who founded Macfield Texturing and Mayo Yarns. One of his sons is a college trustee, and his mother was a 1937 graduate.

The donation was among five large gifts to the Quaker-founded school that total $4.7 million, including an unrestricted $1 million gift from an anonymous donor.

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