USM receives largest donation ever to fund athletic complex improvements
The University of Southern Maine has received the largest gift in its history, $1.65 million, to fund improvements at Costello Sports Complex on the school’s Gorham campus.
The bequest to USM is from the estate of Melissa and Richard “Doc” Costello, former longtime employees of USM for whom the athletic complex is already named. Melissa Costello died in 2008, and Doc Costello, an accomplished basketball coach at USM, died in 2013.
“This is a remarkable gift from two very remarkable people,” USM Director of Athletics Al Bean said in a statement. “Doc and Melissa Costello were truly wonderful people, and they each made an enormous impact on the students and student-athletes that they interacted with during their extraordinary careers at USM.”
Doc Costello won more than 200 games as coach of both the men’s basketball team and the women’s, according to the Portland Press Herald. He also served as USM’s athletic director from 1955 to 1990. Melissa Costello was a professor of education and director of clinical experiences at USM and also retired in 1990.
Bean told the Press Herald that said the university received $750,000 from the Costello estate last year and learned in October that it would receive another $901,000.
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