Stonehill College receives $15 million gift, kick-starting campaign to build a new home for basketball and hockey teams
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The school announced that the building will be named the Tom & Kathleen Bogan Arena. Tom Bogan was an accounting major who graduated from Stonehill in 1972, and has been an executive and investor in the software industry for most of his career.
'We are so thankful to the Bogans for their inspirational leadership,' said Stonehill athletic director Dean O'Keefe. 'The Tom & Kathleen Bogan Arena will help shine a new spotlight on Stonehill for the thousands of visitors who will experience an NCAA Division 1 contest in person.'
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