LACROSSE, Wis. – The LaCrosse Community Foundation has been bequeathed $3.2 million by the late UW-La Crosse English professor Ronald Burman. The money is designated for scholarships and the arts. The Foundation’s chief executive, Jamie Schloegel, said the gift was one of the largest ever received and unexpected: “It brought a tear to my eye because I knew that this was everything that Ron had hoped for — his legacy.” Schloegel noted that Ronald and Valerie Burman never had children: “Through this legacy t now they have surrogate children that will be supported forever.”
Burman. He died in January at age 89, his wife in 2010.