Caddy Today there are many gift options, but the original intent - to support an institution or cause - continues. One of Wooster's early bequests is a good story.

Mr. Elisha P. Douglass graduated from Wooster in 1922. Mr. Douglass had already been a trustee for almost five years when one day he asked President Wishart to come down to see him in Florida where he was spending the winter. Mr. Douglass had not been well but was able to be up and around and to play a little golf. He proposed a game. Mr. Wishart did not play but offered to go along and carry the clubs while Mr. Douglass made the round of nine holes. Wooster was obviously much on Mr. Douglass' mind; he wanted to do something substantial for the college. He had two boys of his own and would prefer to do something that would benefit boys; besides he remembered so vividly his own early struggles in college. When they came in that sunny afternoon, the story goes, he told Mrs. Douglass:
"I bet I am the only man in the United States who ever had a college president for a caddy and paid him a fee of $250,000."

For that was what it was. He left in his will stock to that amount of the McKeesport (Pennsylvania) Tinplate Company for the building of a men's dormitory at The College of Wooster.

Since the early 1990s Wooster has averaged $2 million in bequests from 35 donors annually.