The Nathaniel Witherell, a Greenwich-based short-term rehabilitation and nursing care center of older adults, has received a bequest of approximately $900,000 from the estate of former Greenwich resident Reinhold Vogel, the developer of digital circuitry for advanced radar systems and president of Nicolet Instrument Co.
The bequest is one of the largest single gifts in the facility”™s recent history, and the funds will be used to enhance the Witherell”™s physical facility and for the establishment of an endowment.
“We deeply appreciate Mr. Vogel”™s extraordinary generosity and support of the Witherell,” said Laurence B. Simon, chairman of the Witherell”™s board of directors., who added the gift came as a surprise. “Mr. Vogel had not been one of our residents or patients but, through his gift, considered us as an important Greenwich community asset.”
