Well-nurtured gift enriches two campuses

Tufts, Lesley universities will split a $272m trust

Frank Doble, Tufts 1911, was a longtime Lesley trustee. (Tufts University photo)

By Peter Schworm

Globe Staff / April 9, 2008

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While an electrical engineering student at Tufts University in the early 1900s, Frank Currier Doble wired the campus for telephones to help pay his way through college. A century later, like a bolt from the past, Doble's work ethic and pioneering technical expertise have produced a stunning windfall for his alma mater and another local university that will help an ... (Full article: 920 words)