marylin The late Marilyn Walsh, a 1950 graduate of Grinnell College from Woodbine, Iowa, donated $4 million to Grinnell College in memory of her mother, Dorrit Walsh. Her bequest establishes the Dorrit Walsh Endowed Scholarship Fund for Iowa residents admitted to Grinnell College. The gift is one of the largest one-time gifts in the history of the College. Walsh led a distinguished career as a tax attorney, including a position representing and advising the CBS television network. Walsh received an Alumni Award from Grinnell College in 1970 and an honorary law degree from the College in 1979. She was selected by  Business Week magazine as one of the nation's "100 Top Corporate Women" in 1976, was also a member of the American Bar Association's Tax Committee, and became the first woman elected to the Advisory Board of Tax Management Inc.