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Grateful alumnus gives BC, BC High total $27m

By Travis Andersen

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 08, 2012

Pat Cadigan, a Cambridge native and the son of Irish immigrants, went from helping his father run an Inman Square bar to leading several high tech companies in California, and he credits his Jesuit education at Boston College and BC High School for helping him succeed. And now Cadigan, 77, is thanking both institutions in a big way, donating $15 million to BC for a new alumni center and $12 million to BC High for an arts and recreation building.

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