Robert E. McDonough attributes his success as founder of a national temporary services firm to his Georgetown University education. The 76-year-old Chicago native showed his appreciation with a record $30 million gift to Georgetown's business school, the Washington Post reports.

McDonough attended evening classes at the Jesuit college while working the midnight shift as a U.S. Capitol policeman in the 1940s, the paper reports.

After graduating from Georgetown he worked for the United Nations in Yugoslavia, then moved to California and opened RemedyTemp Inc. in 1965. His company now has 230 offices and revenues of $500 million a year, the paper reports.

The $30 million gift will be disbursed over several years. The business school has been renamed after McDonough.

His gift is the largest single gift the university has received. The university is, however, in the second phase of an expanded $750 million capital campaign based on the large number of donations it has received.

Among the recent gifts are a $17 million grant to pay for scholarships for students from areas such as Bosnia, Northern Ireland and Rwanda, as well as four $10 million gifts. Georgetown's medical center also has been promised a $60 million trust by Virginia B. Toulmin upon her death.