Monday, October 5, 2015
ASU gets $1 million gift for sales education
Posted By Max Brantley on Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 2:21 PM
The gift — presented by Wood's widow Peggy, two children and a son-in-law — also will endow a professorship, finance student travel to national sales competition and endow scholarships. Wood died in February at 83.
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