Big Donations to Ohio State, U. of Texas

Two universities have received large donations:

• Ohio State University has received $30-million from Michael E. Moritz, of Dublin, Ohio, for the law school.

  The gift will provide full tuition and a stipend for 30 law students per year, finance annual awards of $2,000 for the top student in each year of law school, and endow professorships in civil rights and civil liberties, alternative dispute resolution, and general law.

  Mr. Moritz is a partner at Baker & Hostetler, a law firm in Columbus, Ohio. He received both a bachelor’s and a law degree from the university.

• John A. Jackson, who founded the Katie Oil Company, in Dallas, has pledged $25-million over five years to endow a new geosciences school at the University of Texas at Austin. The school will be named for Mr. Jackson and his late wife, Katherine.

  Mr. Jackson, who received a bachelor’s degree in geology from the university in 1940, and his wife gave $15-million to the university last year to help expand the building that housed the geology department.

  Funds from the endowment will support research, fellowships, visiting scientists, and postdoctoral fellows.

Other big gifts:

American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (New York): $7-million from Peter B. Lewis, chairman of the Progressive Corporation, an insurance company in Mayfield Village, Ohio. The donation was earmarked for the organization’s endowment.

Braille Institute (Los Angeles): $5.7-million bequest from Marjorie E. Hobbis, of Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., a stock-market investor whose late husband, Charles, was legally blind and used the talking-book service at the institute’s San Diego center, for operating costs and programs at that location.

Colorado State U. (Fort Collins): $4.3-million from Ed Warner, founder of the Expedition Oil Company, in Denver, to endow a chair in geophysics and one in economic geology.

McLean Hospital (Belmont, Mass.): $12.5-million from an anonymous donor to create a program to treat adults with chronic psychiatric illnesses.

Muhlenberg College (Allentown, Pa.): $5-million from Edward H. Robertson, of Winter Park, Fla., a retired partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and his wife, Lois, for a capital campaign to support construction of two residence halls, renovation of the student center and the sports center, and for fellowships, scholarships, and financial aid.

Rollins College (Winter Park, Fla.): $3-million from Argus Stevenson Barlow, of Mount Dora, Fla., a retired accountant at the college, and his wife, Mary Frances Barlow, for the business school.

Shriners Hospital for Children (Honolulu): $5.7-million unrestricted bequest from Marjorie E. Hobbis, of Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., who was a stock-market investor.

Unity School of Christianity (Unity Village, Mo.): $5.7-million unrestricted bequest from Marjorie E. Hobbis, of Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., who was a stock-market investor.

U. of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia): $10-million from William L. Mack, president of the Mack Organization, a real-estate company, to create a center for technological innovation at the business school.