Complex sentence: Petters was appointed to the board of trustees for the College of St. Benedict in 2002; his mother had attended the school; in 2006 he gave $2 million for improvements to St. Johns Abbey on the campus of adjacent Saint John's University.
Split into simpler sentences: Petters was appointed to the board of trustees for the College of St. Benedict in 2002; his mother had attended the school. In 2006 he gave $2 million for improvements to St. John's Abbey on the campus of adjacent Saint John's University.