$25-Million Donated to UCLA; Other Gifts

The Neuropsychiatric Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles has received $25-million from Terry S. Semel, chairman and chief executive officer of Yahoo, in Sunnyvale, Calif., and his wife, Jane Bovingdon Semel, founder of ijane inc., a Los Angeles nonprofit production company that uses entertainment to examine critical public-health issues. The gift will support research and community-education programs about brain disorders.

Other recent gifts:

Duquesne U. (Pittsburgh): $1.5-million from Edward V. Fritzky, a 1972 graduate of the university and former chairman and chief executive officer of the Immunex Corporation (Seattle), to endow a chair in biotechnology.

Jewish Home & Hospital Lifecare System (New York): $6,738,242 bequest from Jeannette Ackerman Klarenmeyer, of New York, for endowment.

Loras College (Dubuque, Iowa): $1-million gift from an anonymous donor for an endowed scholarship fund and the capital campaign.

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (Cincinnati): $1-million from the talk-show host Oprah Winfrey, of Chicago, for the capital campaign.

Nebraska Wesleyan U. (Lincoln): $1-million from an anonymous donor for the capital campaign.

New Jersey Center for Visual Arts (Summit): $1-million from an anonymous donor for the capital campaign.

Northland College (Ashland, Wis.): $2-million gift from an anonymous donor for its fine-arts facilities.

Ohio Dominican U. (Columbus): $1.25-million unrestricted gift from an anonymous donor.

Ohio U. (Athens): $5-million from Marilyn Stuckey and her husband, Charles R. Stuckey Jr., chairman emeritus of RSA Security (Bedford, Mass.) and a 1966 graduate of the university, for a new facility in the College of Engineering and Technology.

Oregon State U. (Corvallis): Bequest totaling approximately $2-million from James H. Withycombe, a 1951 graduate of the university and a real-estate investor in Los Angeles, to endow a chair in the department of animal sciences. Mr. Withycombe died in 2002.

Rhode Island Foundation (Providence): $1.2-million trust from Robert Johnson, an artist, and his wife, Margaret MacColl Johnson, to create fellowships for Rhode Island composers, writers, and visual artists. Mr. Johnson died in 1999 and his wife died in 1990.

Scott & White (Temple, Tex.): $1-million from Verlin Kruse and her husband, Howard, retired president and chief executive officer of Blue Bell Creameries (Brenham, Tex.), for the executive-health program and for endowed funds in general surgery, medical education, obstetrics and gynecology, ophthalmology, orthopedic surgery, and pediatrics. Scott & White is a health-care system that also provides medical education and conducts research.

Sweet Briar College (Va.): $3-million from Kitty King Corbett Powell, a 1938 graduate of the college and managing trustee of the Powell Foundation (Houston), to renovate and expand the library. Mrs. Powell’s late husband, Ben, was executive vice president and chief counsel for Brown & Root.

U. of Florida (Gainesville): $2-million from the Poe family in honor of their parents, Elizabeth B. Poe and William F. Poe, a 1953 graduate of the university, for the center for business ethics. William F. Poe Jr. serves as vice chairman of the Poe Financial Group (Tampa, Fla.), and his brother, Charles, serves as chief investment officer and vice president. The gift was also from the couple’s three other children, Keren Poe Smith, Marilyn Poe Luniskis, and Janice Poe Mitchell.

U. of Georgia (Athens): $2-million trust from Gene Michaels, a retired faculty member in microbiology, to endow a professorship in medical mycology and for students in the microbiology department.

U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: $3-million gift from an anonymous donor to endow a new professorship in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, in honor of Richard Cole, the school’s dean.

Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.): $4-million from an anonymous donor who graduated in 1958, for Kenyon Hall; $1.5-million from Mary Lee Lowe Dayton, a 1946 graduate, to install air conditioning in the alumnae house; and $1.1-million for the athletics program from an anonymous 1982 graduate.

Warner Southern College (Lake Wales, Fla.): $1-million unrestricted gift from an anonymous donor.

Westminster College (New Wilmington, Pa.): $2-million bequest from Virginia Furno and her husband, Joseph, an educator and athletic coach in the Elizabeth Forward School District (Pa.), to endow a scholarship fund for students from school systems in the Monongahela Valley.