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Henry M. Rowan, Industrialist Who Gave $100 Million Gift to University Henry M. Rowan at the announcement of the $100 million donation by himself and his wife, Betty, to Glassboro State College in 1992. Credit Rowan University Publications Henry M. Rowan Jr. (December 4, 1923 – December 9, 2015) was an American philanthropist and engineer. Rowan University is named after him. He was born to Dr. Henry M. Rowan Sr. and Margaret Frances Boyd Rowan in 1923 (coincidentally the same year the school which now carries his name was founded). After serving his country as a bomber pilot in World War II , Rowan graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with honors with a degree in electrical engineering . Henry M. Rowan, an industrialist whose $100 million gift to Glassboro State College in New Jersey in 1992 — now Rowan University — was the biggest in...