$16-Million for Hospital; Other Gifts
February 19, 2004 | Read Time: 3 minutes
The Sioux Valley Foundation, in Sioux Falls, S.D., has received a $16-million pledge from T. Denny Sanford, founder of Premier Bankcard and First Premier Bank (Sioux Falls), to build a children’s hospital. The funds are to be transferred over the next five years; hospital construction is scheduled to take 18 months and be completed by 2008.
Other recent gifts:
Albright College (Reading, Pa.): $1.5-million from Robert R. Gerhart Jr., an alumnus, and his late wife, Lillian, to endow a chair in communications. Mr. Gerhart served in the Pennsylvania Senate and House of Representatives and owned Roberts and Company (Reading), a public-relations company.
Columbia U. Medical Center (New York): $1-million from Jessie Araskog and her husband, Rand, former chairman and chief executive officer of ITT Corporation (White Plains, N.Y.), to endow the position of director of ambulatory eye care in the department of ophthalmology’s eye institute.
Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation: $1-million from the family of the late Annette Strauss, a former mayor of Dallas, for a performing-arts center.
Hamline U. (St. Paul): $2.9-million from Annette Robbins, an alumna, and her husband, Orem, a university trustee and founder and chairman emeritus of Security Life Insurance Company of America (Minnetonka, Minn.), to endow a scholarship fund.
Johns Hopkins U. (Baltimore): $2-million from Philip Myers of Owings Mills, Md., a 1933 graduate of the university and a retired radiologist, to endow a professorship in Yiddish language, literature, and culture.
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (New York): $3-million from Marian Ware, widow of John H. Ware III, who had been a U.S. congressman and founder and president of Penn Fuel Gas (Oxford, Pa.). The gift will support diabetes research at the U. of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) and Pennsylvania State U. (University Park).
Pennsylvania State U. at Abington: $5-million from Suzanne Lord and her husband, Albert, an alumnus and vice chairman and chief executive officer of Sallie Mae (Reston, Va.), to endow a deanship.
Roswell Park Cancer Institute (Buffalo, N.Y.): $1.1-million from Judith Lipsey and her husband, Stanford, publisher of The Buffalo News, for a new center focusing on cancer genetics and pharmacology.
St. Mary’s U. (San Antonio): $7.8-million bequest from Alicia Viyao and her husband, Pedro, who was a founder of Seguros Chapultepec (Mexico City), for scholarships.
U. of California at Santa Barbara: $1-million from the actor Michael Douglas to construct a center for film, television, and new media. Mr. Douglas received a bachelor’s degree in dramatic art from the university in 1968.
U. of California at Los Angeles: Bequest valued at approximately $1.7-million from Bonnie Cashin, a fashion designer. Ms. Cashin, who died in 2000, donated her archives, which are valued at $225,000 and include sketches, photographs, writings, and other materials; $1-million to support and maintain the archives; and $500,000 to establish a lecture series.
U. of Denver: $2.5-million from Laura Barton and her late husband, Peter, who was an adjunct faculty member at the College of Business, to build a lacrosse stadium.
U. of Florida (Gainesville): $2-million from Eve Wilder and her husband, B.J., a professor emeritus of neurology and neuroscience at the university’s College of Medicine, for a center on epilepsy research.
Wichita Foundation (Kan.): $2.8-million from Paula and Barry Downing, founders of Corporate Lodging Consultants (Wichita), for a fund that supports children’s organizations and early-education programs.
