"Marilyn K. Glick, who with her husband Gene B. Glick donated millions of dollars in recent years to civic projects such as
the Indianapolis Cultural Trail, died of cancer Friday at the age of 90," reports the
Indiana Business Journal. She "founded People of Vision in 1981 to support Prevent Blindness Indiana.
This dedication to eye health culminated
in the Glicks’ largest philanthropic grant to date, a $30 million gift
to
the Indiana University School of Medicine
for the construction of its new Glick Eye Institute in Indianapolis.
They donated
$15 million to the cultural trail, the
bike and pedestrian trail named for them that runs through downtown."
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