School officials announced the$3.6 million gift from Jay and Kelly Jacobs of Laguna Niguel, California, during homecoming events on Saturday.

The gift will help the school meet a $20 million fundraising effort announced in August.

The Columbia Daily Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/1tYGjuc) Jacobs served on the school’s board of trustees for eight years and his sister, Janet, is a current trustee. He did not graduate from the school.

At Jacobs’s request, the school will name a new Center for Allied Health for the late James and Helen Thogmorton. James Thogmorton was Dean of Men when the school was a men’s college and later was dean of students and dean of alumni affairs.

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Information from: Columbia Daily Tribune, http://www.columbiatribune.com