Cal State Fullerton donor worked so physics students don’t have to

Source: www.ocregister.com --- Tuesday, October 03, 2017
Dan Black didn’t race an elephant. He didn’t found a fraternity. He never went to a football or Baseball game in college. He doesn’t live in Orange County. But the 1967 Cal State Fullerton alum is one of the university’s largest donors. Black has his name on a science building, a business school lecture hall, a physics-business program, physics scholarships, and the directorship of the Gravitational-Wave Physics and Astronomy Center. Then there are the things his name isn’t on but which he has donated to, including DC Scholars, the oral history program, the entrepreneurship center, science research and a portable planetarium. Black, who splits his time between homes in the Bay Area and Reno, can be spotted at campus functions honoring the work of students and professors. “I come down here so much I think I own one of those Southwest planes,” he joked recently while sitting with grandson Karl Freels, a CSUF graduate student, in the lobby of Mihaylo College of Business and Economics. Dan Black, one of the biggest donors to Cal State Fullerton, stands with his grandson Karl Freels, a doctoral candidate in the College of Education, on Aug. 16. (Photo by Nick Agro, Orange County Register/SCNG) Perhaps that plane will be the next thing bearing his name. Over the years, Black and his wife, Kathy Chao Black, have given about $8 million to the university in gifts and pledges – something for every college. “When I think about Dan and his ...

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