$11-Million Trust to Benefit 2 Pa. Schools; Other Gifts

Compiled by LAURA HRUBY

Mary Watt Van Dusen, of Philadelphia, has left a trust worth $11-million to two Pennsylvania schools, for endowment.

Springside School, in Philadelphia, and the School at Church Farm, in Paoli, Pa., will split the proceeds from the trust.

Mrs. Van Dusen, who died in January, inherited stock in the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company from her family.

Other recent big gifts:

American Dental Association Health Foundation (Chicago): $1-million from Samuel Harris, a retired pediatric dentist from Detroit, to endow programs to improve poor children’s oral health.

California State U. at Fresno: A trust worth $3-million and a pledge of $500,000 over five years from Marion Kremen, of Fresno, a former elementary-school teacher and principal, for a doctoral program in education and other graduate programs in honor of her late husband, Benjamin, who was an education professor at the university.

U. of Colorado at Boulder: $3.7-million from Joe Negler, of Boulder, a former IBM employee, to endow a professorship in the engineering school.

Cornell College (Mount Vernon, Iowa): $1.5-million from Marie Fletcher Carter, of Bettendorf, Iowa, whose late husband, Archie, was a civil engineer and a graduate of the college. The gift will be used to help build a new pedestrian mall.

Dobbs Ferry Public Library (N.Y.): Unrestricted bequest of a trust worth $2-million from Doris Volland Whitlock, who died last year, to be used to construct a new library. Mrs. Whitlock inherited the trust from her father, who owned a publishing company in Chicago.

Drake U. (Des Moines): $1-million from Dan Jorndt, chairman of the Walgreen Company, in Deerfield, Ill., and his wife, Patricia McDonnell Jorndt, both alumni of the university, for scholarships for pharmacy students.

Jewish Vocational Services Endowment Foundation (Chicago): $5-million from Louis Duman, of Highland Park, Ill., who founded Advance Transformer, a manufacturer, to create a center that will provide interest-free loans and business training to aspiring entrepreneurs.

Ohio U. (Athens): $1-million from Joan Galbreath Phillips, of Columbus, Ohio, an alumna and former chair of the university’s board of trustees, to help renovate the university’s stadium. Mrs. Phillips’s late husband was J. Wallace Phillips, a lawyer for John W. Galbreath and Company, a real-estate company founded by Mrs. Phillips’s father.

Scripps Foundation for Medicine and Science (La Jolla, Calif.): $1-million pledge over five years from Donald P. Shiley, of San Diego, founder of Shiley Inc., a company that manufactures heart valves and other medical products, and his wife, Darlene, for two neurology fellowships.

United Cerebral Palsy (Washington): $2.5-million pledge from Stephen L. Snyder, of Pikesville, Md., a senior partner at the Baltimore law firm of Snyder, Jacobs, Slutkin and Lodowski, to construct a facility and to develop the charity’s Web site.

U. of Oregon (Eugene): $1.5-million from James F. Miller, of Portland, Ore., former managing director of PaineWebber, an investment company in New York, now UBS PaineWebber, to help build a new theater complex; and $1-million from Dave Petrone, of Palo Alto, Calif., who heads a real-estate finance company in San Mateo, Calif., and his wife, Nancy, to expand the university’s football stadium, provide new furnishings for the library, and create a faculty fellowship in the journalism school.

U. of Texas at Austin: $2-million each from Gary T. Crum and Robert H. Graham, who co-founded the AIM Management Group, an investment company in Houston, to endow a center that will study investment management, capital markets, and other areas of finance. The endowment will be managed by the university’s finance students.