Wildlife Group Gets Ranch; Other Big Gifts

A rancher has bequeathed land worth an estimated $17.5-million to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, in Missoula, Mont.

Bob Torstenson, who lived in Rockford, Ill., and owned the 135,000-acre Double H Ranch in New Mexico, also left $4-million to the foundation to endow the property and take care of its wildlife.

Other recent gifts to nonprofit institutions:

Azusa Pacific U. (Calif.): $2-million in commercial property from Charles, Eugene, and Maxine Piester, of Corona, Calif., for capital improvements. The gift is in a charitable remainder annuity trust, which will pay the donors a fixed amount for a period of years, after which the university will receive the contents of the trust.

California State U.-Channel Islands (Camarillo): $1-million from Robert J. Lagomarsino, a former Congressman from California, and his wife, Norma, to help establish and endow a library.

Cape Cod Hospital (Hyannis, Mass.): $2-million from Ray and Marie Fontaine, of West Harwich, Mass., to support a medical center in Harwich that will be named for the couple.

City U. of New York, Bernard M. Baruch College: $5-million pledge from Bernard L. Schwartz, chairman of Loral Space & Communications, in New York, and his wife, Irene, to recruit and retain faculty members and scholars at the Zicklin School of Business.

Colonial Williamsburg (Va.): $1-million from Royce R. and Kathryn (Kitte) McCormick Baker, of Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., to endow a chair in history education.

Diabetes Research Institute Foundation (Miami): $1-million from Denise R. Stern and her husband, Thomas D. Stern, chairman of the foundation’s New York City board, to support research toward a possible cure for diabetes.

Greater Cincinnati Foundation (Ohio): $2-million bequest from Edna Flower, a retired employee of Procter & Gamble Company, in Cincinnati, for unrestricted use.

Johns Hopkins U. (Baltimore): $1-million from Marian Falk, whose late husband, Ralph, owned Baxter International, a medical-supply company in Deerfield, Ill., for biomedical-engineering research.

Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles): $1-million from Leonard Nimoy, the actor who played Mr. Spock on the television show Star Trek, and his wife, Susan Bay Nimoy, to endow the Nimoy Fund for Emerging Artists.

Pine Crest School (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.): $2-million from an anonymous donor for a capital campaign to support renovation, construction, and other projects at this private elementary and secondary school.

U. of Akron (Ohio): $1-million from Margaret Donovan, whose late husband was a nuclear engineer and an executive at Babcock & Wilcox, in Medina County, Ohio, to establish a chair devoted to women in engineering.

U. of Alabama (Tuscaloosa): $8-million bequest from Alton (Ikie) Noel Scott, of Little Pine, Ala., for research at the College of Engineering.

U. of Denver: $1-million from John C. Foster, who received a bachelor’s degree in economics from the university, to endow a scholarship fund.

U. of Missouri at Columbia: $1-million from Robert J. Trulaske Sr., an alumnus of the university and chief executive officer of True Manufacturing Company, in O’Fallon, Mo., and his wife, Geraldine, to provide scholarships to graduate students at the College of Business who previously received undergraduate scholarships from a fund endowed by the Trulaskes.

U. of Toledo (Ohio): $1-million from Ed Shapiro, a retired economics professor at the university, to endow a scholarship fund for economics students.

Urban Land Institute Foundation (Washington): $1-million from James D. Klingbeil, a former chairman of the institute, to endow a fellowship in urban development.