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Ipswich businessman Michael J. Agganis’s name is on the Enterprise Center (top), owned and operated by a nonprofit organization that Salem State College controls. ‘‘I don’t want my name on a building that is housing private companies,’’ Agganis said. He expected the adjacent business school building (below) to be named after him, and said president Nancy Harrington is to blame. ‘‘It is definitely not personal,’’ she said. ‘‘I can’t run an organization of this size and make a decision based on personal issues.’’

Agganis pulls $1m gift offer to Salem State on building name

By Frank Phillips
Globe Staff / March 7, 2005

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Saying his alma mater deceived him when it named a former factory building after him, Ipswich businessman Michael J. Agganis has withdrawn a $1 million gift offer to Salem State College and demanded the school return a separate $500,000 donation he made eight years ago to its business school. (Full article: 1074 words)

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