Bensons fund $7M seminary renovation

As Tom Benson and his wife Gayle stood at the top steps of Notre Dame Seminary March 11, dozens of seminarians walked up single file and shook hands with the owner of the New Orleans Saints and the New Orleans Hornets, thankful for his gift of $7 million to restore Archbishop Shaw Hall, the massive, main residence on South Carrollton Avenue that was built in 1923.