$100-Million to the Cleveland Clinic; Other Gifts

Two colleges have received large contributions:

• Alfred Lerner, a banker and owner of the Cleveland Browns football team, and his wife, Norma, have donated $100-million to help establish the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland. The medical school is scheduled to enroll its first class of students in 2004.

  Mr. Lerner, 69, is chairman of MBNA Corporation, in Wilmington, Del. He and his wife live in Shaker Heights, Ohio.

• Ann Lurie, the widow of Robert H. Lurie, a real-estate developer, has given $25-million to the University of Michigan College of Engineering to create programs in biomedical engineering and integrated microsystems. Mr. Lurie, who died in 1990, graduated from the engineering school. Mrs. Lurie lives in Chicago.

Other nonprofit organizations that recently received big contributions:

Johns Hopkins U. (Baltimore): $7-million bequest from Larry Goldfarb, who was an accountant in Baltimore, to support athletics and recreation programs at the university’s Homewood campus.

Louisiana State U. (Baton Rouge): $7.5-million pledge from Gordon A. Cain, a Houston businessman, to help improve science, mathematics, and engineering education in Louisiana.

U. of Iowa Foundation (Iowa City): $2.8-million from Arthur E. Stanley, of Gainesville, Fla., a co-founder of an engineering company in Muscatine, Iowa, to endow a football scholarship fund; $1.5-million from Ronald D. and Margaret L. Kenyon, owners of Ronald Kenyon Construction, in West Des Moines, Iowa, to help build a practice facility for the university’s football team; and $1-million from Donald E. Bently, of Minden, Nev., who founded an engineering company that was purchased this year by GE Power Systems, to endow a fund that will support research, academic, and other programs at the College of Engineering.

U. of Maine at Farmington: $5-million from an anonymous donor to help build a community arts center and support arts programs in western Maine; and $1.3-million from Bill Berry, of Farmington, a professor emeritus at the university, to endow a chair in geology.

U. of Maryland School of Law (Baltimore): $5-million from family and friends of Nathan Patz, who graduated from the university’s law school in 1926 and practiced law in Baltimore, for faculty development and other programs.