Man Who Donated To Marshall University Dies

{Huntington, West Virginia}…Huntington businessman Arthur Weisberg, who donated millions to Marshall University and its engineering program in recent years, died Saturday at the age of 88. Weisberg and his wife, Joan, founded State Electric Supply Co. in Huntington in 1952. Weisberg, who grew up in Brooklyn and graduated from City College of New York, helped to re-establish Marshall University’s engineering program in 2006. In honor of his support, the university named its Arthur Weisberg Family Engineering Laboratories and the $50 million Arthur Weisberg Family Applied Engineering Complex, which had its groundbreaking last month, after Weisberg and his family.