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via a "$ 11.3 million no-interest loan from South Africa." His $ 500,000 donation to MSU for the dedication of a theatre in honor of his wife was returned after members of the MSU community objected to his ties to the apartheid regime the following year. In
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John P. McGoff was born in 1925. He spent his early years with his family, including six siblings, in
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