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2002–2026
The gifts: Indiana Tech's largest documented gift is Larry Lee's — the 4 million dollar track gift of 2021 and the planned gift of about 3.2 million dollars announced in 2026, both told in full in the Lee entry above. In September 2026 the university also announced a gift of 3.2 million dollars from the Pat and Sue Schaefer Foundation for scholarships, faculty support and campus traditions. The university's older landmark gift came from a Fort Wayne fortune of an earlier era: in 2002 the Fred Zollner Foundation gave 1 million dollars toward the Zollner Engineering Center, carrying onto the campus the name of the Zollner Piston founder whose Pistons had made Fort Wayne a basketball town two generations before. The Kachmann family's giving to the university — tennis courts and athletic facilities underwritten by Dr. Rudy and Rhonda Kachmann — is documented as naming support without published amounts, and is recorded here in words rather than figures for that reason.
Sources:
- Indiana Tech news releases (2021; September 2026) — the Lee and Schaefer gifts.
- Indiana Tech / Zollner Foundation records, as compiled in the Wealth section of this history — the 2002 gift of 1 million dollars.
- AroundFortWayne (January 2011) — the Kachmanns' underwritten facilities at Indiana Tech, IPFW and Lutheran Hospital.