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| Mike Weger speaks at the April 10 announcement of his $550,000 gift for the Sebo Athletic Center. |
Gift to Sebo Athletic Center is family affair for BGSU football great
Mike Weger and his father, Roy, left their marks on BGSU as a football standout and director of bands, respectively.
Their places in University history will now be reinforced through a gift that Mike Weger has made toward the new Sebo Athletic Center, under construction at the north end of Doyt L. Perry Stadium.
Weger, of Oxford, Mich., has pledged $550,000 for the center, where a training room will be named for him and adjacent seating for the Falcon Marching Band will be named in honor of his late father. Among the band members under Roy Weger’s direction in the 1950s was Robert Sebo, who, with his wife, Karen, contributed $3.5 million for the center that bears their name. The Salem, Ohio, businessman is a 1958 BGSU graduate and a current University trustee.
The Weger gift lifts the total raised for the structure past $6 million, nearing the private fund-raising goal of $7 million, said Marcia Sloan Latta, associate vice president for University advancement and campaign director.
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