Early Life and Education
Phil Purcell was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he graduated from Judge Memorial, a small Catholic parochial school whose students were mainly from modest backgrounds. Though from a moderately well-to-do family himself, Purcell worked during the school year, selling magazine subscriptions and pressing clothes at a drycleaner, and during summers on road construction and at the national parks in southern Utah. He was a star center on the basketball team and starting tackle on the state championship football team.
Following high school, Purcell won a scholarship to the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He transferred to Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, after his freshman year. His academic career was distinguished. He won fellowships, first, to the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and, then, to the London School of Economics. He paid his own way through graduate school with the fellowships he won and with his own earnings and savings. In October 2006, Purcell contributed $12.5 million for the renovation of Notre Dame basketball arena, which was renamed "Purcell Pavilion" in his honor.
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