11/9/2007
GARY DEMUTH
The Greater Salina Community Foundation has received a $4.9 million gift from the estate of the late L.P. “Pat” Mullen to benefit area ministries and school programs. During a press conference Friday, foundation executive director Betsy Wearing announced a grant of $2,438,622 would be given to the Sister Francis Ellen Endowment Fund to benefit Sacred Heart Jr.-Sr. High School in Salina. In addition, a grant of $1,219,311 would be presented to the Sisters of St. Joseph Nazareth Academy in Concordia. “These are the two largest single grants we’ve made since (the foundation’s) inception in 1999,” Wearing said.  Mullen, a Salina businessman, engineer, inventor and philanthropist, died in December 2006.
For more on where the money will go and Pat Mullen, read reporter Gary Demuth's story in Saturday's Salina Journal.