UGA reveals name of donor who gave $33 million
The woman for whom a University of Georgia veterinary hospital will be named has left $9 million to UGA’s Hugh Hodgson School of Music, UGA officials announced Thursday.
That sum is part of a $17 million bequest Cora Nunnally Miller gave to UGA. Over her lifetime, the Coca-Cola heiress gave $33 million to the university, counting that final gift. Miller donated $13.5 million to the UGA College of Veterinary Medicine, including $7 million to help pay for construction of the UGA Small Animal Teaching Hospital on College Station Road. She also left $2 million to start an endowment “to support teaching, research and service” at the veterinary college, according to the university.
Parts of Miller’s final bequest will also go to the UGA Honors Program and the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, where $4 million of it will fund a new scholarship program for undergraduates in fine arts majors.
Miller had already helped many students in the music school, where she supported scholarships and assistantships. She was the stepdaughter of Hugh Hodgson, the first chairman of UGA’s music department.
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