$30-Million Bequest Made to Iowa College; Other Gifts

A 1925 alumnus has bequeathed $30-million to Grinnell College, in Iowa. The donor, Joseph Frankel Rosenfield, of Des Moines, was the retired chairman of Younkers Department Stores, now owned by Saks Incorporated, and a former lawyer. The college will use $25-million of the gift to help build a new campus center.

Other groups that recently received big gifts:

Lancaster Country Day School (Pa.): $4-million bequest from Marcia L. Hubbard, of New York, an alumna, for endowment.

New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark): $1-million pledge from Otto H. York, of Madison, N.J., who founded a chemical-engineering company, for scholarships and faculty research in the engineering department.

Northwestern College (Orange City, Iowa): $2.1-million bequest from Margaret Surbeck, of Atherton, Calif., to expand a scholarship established in 1984 by Mrs. Surbeck and her late husband, who was a lawyer in New York.

Oklahoma City U.: $13-million from Herman Meinders, an alumnus and a member of the university’s Board of Trustees, and his wife, LaDonna, to help construct a new building for its business school.

South Coast Repertory (Costa Mesa, Calif.): $10-million from Paul Folino, president of Emulex, in Costa Mesa, and president of the theater’s board, and his wife, Daranne, to finance renovations, programming, and operating expenses, and to increase the theater’s endowment.

U. of South Dakota (Vermillion): $1.3-million bequest from Katharine M. Norton, of Rapid City, S.D., a 1936 graduate whose late husband was a geologist, to endow a scholarship for undergraduate students from South Dakota.

U. of St. Thomas (Houston): $1-million from Dennis Malloy, president of the Malloy Cash Register Company, in Houston, his sister, Michelle Malloy, and their mother, Felice Malloy. The university will name its new humanities and education building for Felice Malloy and her late husband, Eugene.

U. of Texas at Austin: a collection of photographs, books, and manuscripts valued at $2.5-million from David Douglas Duncan, a photojournalist, to benefit the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.

U. of Texas Health Science Center at Houston: $4.5-million bequest from Eula Goss Wintermann, of Eagle Lake, Tex. Mrs. Wintermann’s gift includes real estate worth $2.5-million and a $2-million endowment.

Virginia Commonwealth U. (Richmond): $2-million pledge from W.E. Singleton, a managing general partner of Crenshaw-Singleton Properties, a real-estate investment company in Richmond, for a jazz program in the School of the Arts.

Washington U. in St. Louis: $2-million from Whitney R. Harris, of St. Louis, a retired attorney, to support the Institute for Global Legal Studies at the university’s law school.