http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,311020,00.html


*ERIE, Pa.  —  Mike Batchelor invited the heads of 46 charities into his
downtown office for one-on-one meetings to personally deliver the news.*

Nearby, on a small table, sat a box of tissues.

And then he proceeded: A donor had given a staggering $100 million to the
Erie Community Foundation, and the charities would get to share the
windfall.

That's when the tears came — and the mystery began — in this old industrial
city of 102,000 on Lake
Erie<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,311020,00.html#>.
The donor would be identified only as "Anonymous Friend."

Batchelor and other foundation officials are sworn to secrecy, allowing only
that the donor had worked with the organization for years to identify
deserving recipients before the announcement late this summer.

Is the donor now dead or still alive? No comment, Batchelor said. What is
the donor's connection to Erie? ....


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