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School receives $5.2 million donation for Corps of Cadets
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The University of North Georgia has received the second-largest gift in its history: property worth an estimated $5.2 million The property will be used to establish a fund supporting the Corps of Cadets, and was donated by the estate of Army Col. Lewis “Jack” Peevy, who died in January. UNG is a federally designated senior military college. Peevy, who graduated from UNG and worked in the military for 30 years, made another sizable donation to the college in 2012, when he committed $2.1 million to establish a Corps of Cadets scholarship in his name.