Charlie Munger gives $1.2 million to the University of Michigan
According to the Wall Street Journal:
Warren Buffett’s longtime investing partner, Charlie Munger, today disclosed a donation of 10 shares of Berkshire Hathaway stock to the Regents of the University of Michigan.
Sure, 10 shares of Bank of America stock may not add up to much, but Berkshire Class A shares are trading at $115,955 each, meaning Munger’s donation has a current market value of nearly $1.2 million.
Munger was a math major at the University of Michigan, but enlisted in the Army partway through his stint at Michigan. He didn’t graduate from college, but managed to talk his way into Harvard Law School after his military service during World War II.
January 10th, 2012 at 4:42 PM ^
...managed to talk his way into Harvard Law School...
January 10th, 2012 at 4:44 PM ^
I wish I could do that..
January 10th, 2012 at 4:45 PM ^
Exactly what I was going to say, until the blockquote monster made my post look all janky and I decided to leave it uncommented
January 10th, 2012 at 4:45 PM ^
I found that interesting as well Haha
January 10th, 2012 at 4:48 PM ^
I managed to talk my way into the Mary Markley mess hall for a just-after-hours lunch back in 1992. Harvard Law pales in comparison.
(What a very generous donation, Mr. Munger. Hats off to you.)
January 10th, 2012 at 5:17 PM ^
talked myself into a ticket...in which a Harvard law grad had to defend me in court.
January 10th, 2012 at 5:33 PM ^
Good admissions test: if you can do that, you'll probably make a good lawyer
January 10th, 2012 at 5:38 PM ^
Charlie Munger gave the commencement address at my law school graduation. After about 45 minutes, I think we would have given him just about anything in the world if he would just agree to stop talking.
I think the highlight came about halfway through when he commented on "looking out at a sea of Asian faces" (perhaps not realizing we had an LLM program comprised mostly of working lawyers from the Pacific Rim) and began chastizing "us" (Americans? White people?) for not working as hard as they do. This was followed by an entertaining 20 minutes during which my buddy (of Chinese descent) kept announcing in a louder and louder voice the sweet karate moves he planned to perpetrate on Mr. Munger's face if he didn't wrap it up soon.
He had no prepared speech and just rambled on and on incessantly, adding "just one more thing" about 8 times, to more audible groaning from the student body each time.
January 10th, 2012 at 5:48 PM ^
That is nothing.
This guy got ND to pony up 10-MIL and while still being paid took a job with the Chiefs for 1-MIL and in one year after that took a job with Florida for 2.625 MIL and then one year after that talked the Jayhawks into shelling out 2.5-MIL for 5 years!
January 11th, 2012 at 12:13 PM ^
But, I think he the same Harvard lawyer that was able talk Craig James off for killing five hookers while at SMU?
January 10th, 2012 at 8:28 PM ^
but graduated from Harvard law school?
How????
January 10th, 2012 at 9:06 PM ^
Jedi mind trick
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<br>"These are not the transcripts you are looking for"
January 10th, 2012 at 9:34 PM ^
I have a feeling that skill might have served him well in his career after the military.
January 10th, 2012 at 4:46 PM ^
If you can talk your way into law school you deserve to be in law school.
January 10th, 2012 at 4:52 PM ^
May as well just hand him the law degree right there.
January 10th, 2012 at 5:32 PM ^
I once talked my way into a Harvard Law Grad's bed. Does that count??
January 10th, 2012 at 8:41 PM ^
You pos'banged Charlie Munger?
January 10th, 2012 at 9:52 PM ^
guy or girl's....
January 10th, 2012 at 4:53 PM ^
Seems like a great guy. I didn't know this until reading his Wikipedia page a second ago, but he has already donated $26M to the Law School for renovations.
January 10th, 2012 at 5:37 PM ^
Munger is a big shot lawyer who was a name partner at one of the most prominent law firms in the country: http://www.mto.com/. He doesn't work there anymore, but they kept his name.
He's been a generous friend to the University for a while.
January 10th, 2012 at 6:57 PM ^
If I'm not mistaken, either Tolles or Olson (or both?) are M grads as well.