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Former Dayton Daily News columnist Dale Huffman left more than $250,000 following his death to set up a charitable fund to provide annual help to the Wright State University Libraries Special Collections and Archives, Dayton Foundation officials announced.
The Dale M. Huffman Memorial Fund was set up at The Dayton Foundation with a gift of $256,492 from the longtime columnist and Dayton icon who died on July 26.
Money from the fund will be given yearly to the Wright State University Foundation and then distributed to the the school’s library for maintenance use on its special collections and archives, which house work from the Wright brothers, Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Dayton Daily News, as well as historical information about the Dayton area.
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