$29-Million Bequest Made to Pennsylvania Hospital; Other Big Donations to Charities

The Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network, in Allentown, Pa., will receive a $29-million bequest from Anne Anderson, who died last November at age 94, and her husband, Carl R. Anderson, who died in 1994 at age 96. The couple, who lived in Allentown, designated that the money be used for the hospital’s teaching activities.

Mr. Anderson was an engineer for Air Products and Chemicals, a supplier of industrial gasses, in Trexlertown, Pa.

Other recent gifts:

Boston Latin School: $1-million from Frederick W. McCarthy, chairman of Triumph Capital Group, in Boston, and a 1959 graduate of the public school, for programs to help recruit and retain minority students.

College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, Va.): $5-million pledge from Harrison Ruffin Tyler, of Charles City County, Va., co-founder of ChemTreat, an industrial-watertreatment company in Richmond, Va., and his wife, Francis, to endow the history department in honor of his late father, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, who was president of the college.

Culinary Institute of America (Hyde Park, N.Y.): $1-million from John Farquharson, of Haddonfield, N.J., president of the International Food Safety Council and former president of the National Restaurant Association, and his wife, Clara, to help restore the student dining hall, to be named Farquharson Hall.

Danville Area Community College Foundation (Ill.): $1.2-million bequest from Mary Bryant O’Neal, who died in 2000 at age 76, to establish the Mary and Frank O’Neal Library Endowment, to support the library of the Danville Area Community College. Mr. and Mrs. O’Neal owned Woodbury’s Book Store, in Danville.

Eastern Virginia Medical School (Norfolk): $2.3-million from John S. Thiemeyer Jr., of Norfolk, a professor emeritus of orthopedics at the medical school. He placed no restrictions on the use of the gift.

Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation (Bloomfield, Conn.): $1-million from Marjorie Morrissey, of Stonington, Conn., and her husband, Gerard (Rod) Morrissey, who died last year at age 90, to help expand the dog-training center and to provide a guide dog to one blind person each year.

Guilford College (Greensboro, N.C.): $1-million matching pledge from Malcolm O. Campbell, of Upper Montclair, N.J., the retired vice president of the Van Leer Chocolate Corporation, in Jersey City, N.J., and his wife, Jeanne Van Leer Campbell. The couple, both graduates of Guilford, will match gifts from other alumni up to that amount.

Harvard U. (Cambridge, Mass.): $12.5-million from Jane Fonda, the former actress and fitness instructor, to establish a center at the graduate school of education that will study the ways in which children’s development and learning are influenced by their gender, and to endow a professorship in gender studies at that center.

Maine Community Foundation (Ellsworth): $6-million pledge from a donor who wishes to remain anonymous, to expand the Aroostook and Washington County Funds and the foundation’s annual grant-making fund, to establish a fund to help Maine residents repay college loans, and to create a donor-advised fund.

Marquette U. (Milwaukee): $1-million each to help build the John P. Raynor, S.J., Library from: Richard A. Burke, a university trustee and president of the Trek Bicycle Corporation, in Waterloo, Wis.; Richard J. Fridl, retired president of the Heil Company, now part of International Comfort Products, in Lewisburg, Tenn., and his wife, Florence Merton Fridl; and Wayne R. Sanders, chairman of the Kimberly-Clark Corporation, the manufacturer of Kleenex and other products, in Irving, Tex., and his wife, Kathleen.

Monmouth College (Ill.): $3-million pledge, to be paid over five years, from Harold (Red) Poling, retired chairman of the Ford Motor Company and a Monmouth graduate, and his wife, Marian, to expand the college’s international-studies and exchange programs.

Norton Museum of Art (West Palm Beach, Fla.): $3-million from Gerald Tsai Jr., of Palm Beach, Fla., former chairman of Delta Life Corporation, an annuity company, and his wife, Nancy, an interior decorator, to help construct a new wing and to expand the museum’s endowment. The couple also donated two sculptures.

Omaha Symphony: $1-million matching pledge from Richard Holland, of Omaha, a retired advertising executive and a member of the symphony’s board, and his wife, Mary, for endowment. The Hollands will match, dollar for dollar, funds raised by the symphony from other sources.

Public Policy Institute of California (San Francisco): $1-million from Arjay Miller, former president of the Ford Motor Company, in Dearborn, Mich., and dean emeritus of Stanford University’s graduate business school, and his wife, Frances, to establish the Arjay and Frances Miller Chair in Public Policy.

Roger Williams U. (Bristol, R.I.): $3.5-million pledge from Mario J. Gabelli, founder of Gabelli Asset Management, in Rye, N.Y., for scholarships and for computers and other equipment at the business school.

Southwestern Medical Foundation (Dallas): $13-million from Charles Seay, of Dallas, the founder of Charles E. Seay Investments, and his wife, Sarah (Sadie) Seay, for pediatric research and treatment at three Dallas medical centers. Of the total, $7-million was earmarked to establish and endow a pediatric research and treatment center, to be named for the couple, at the U. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas; $3.5-million will support research and help upgrade the facilities of the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children; and $2.5-million will expand the emergency and intensive-care facilities at the Children’s Medical Center of Dallas.

St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center (Boston): $1-million from Jack Shaughnessy, president of Shaughnessy & Ahern Company, a transportation and equipment company in Boston, and his wife, Mary, for the hospital’s cardiovascular gene-therapy program.

State U. of New York at Buffalo: $1-million pledge from Leslie A. Brun, of Wynnewood, Pa., chairman of Hamilton Lane Advisors, a private investment company in Philadelphia, to create a graduate fellowship for minority students and to support research at the university’s school of social work, where Mr. Brun received a bachelor’s degree.

U. of Alabama at Birmingham: $7.5-million bequest from Voncile Shealy, of Dothan, Ala., an investor and retired teacher who died in 2000 at age 95, for research at the university’s cancer center, in the name of her first husband, Dan Nelson, who died of cancer in 1951.

U. of California at San Francisco: $5.4-million from Eric Greenberg, who founded three San Francisco companies — Viant Corporation and Scient Corporation, both technology-consulting companies, and 12 Entrepreneuring, a private technology-investment company — to help build the Carmel and Eric Greenberg Human Genetics Laboratory, in Mission Bay, and to establish an award for research in cardiovascular genetics.

U. of Notre Dame (South Bend, Ind.): $2.7-million from Regis Philbin, a Notre Dame alumnus and host of the television shows Live! With Regis and Kelly and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, to help build a studio theater in a new performing-arts center, which is expected to be completed in 2003.

U. of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia): $16-million from Charles K. Williams, a retired archaeologist who received his doctoral degree from the university, for renovation of the general utilities and air conditioning of the university’s museum buildings.

U. of Texas at Austin: $5-million from Gordon Cain, who founded several companies in Houston, and his wife, Mary, for research and a professorship at the nursing school.

Virginia Commonwealth U. (Richmond): $4-million pledge from Inger Rice, of Richmond, whose late husband, Walter, served as the U.S. Ambassador to Australia from 1969-73. The donation will consist of land valued at $3.2-million and a charitable lead trust that is expected to generate $1.8-million for the university.

Western Kentucky U. (Bowling Green): $2-million from Jim Scott, founder of Scott Construction, in Bowling Green, for a professorship in construction and civil engineering.

Yeshiva U. (New York): $1.5-million from Henry Kaufman, founder of Henry Kaufman & Company, an investment and consulting company in New York, for a professorship in business and financial history at the Sy Syms School of Business.