$30-Million Pledged to Indiana U. for Eye Institute; Other Gifts

Five institutions have received big gifts:

• Indiana University School of Medicine, in Indianapolis, has received a pledge of $30-million from Eugene and Marilyn Glick, co-founders of the Gene B. Glick Company, a home-building corporation in Indianapolis, to establish the Eye Institute. Most of the gift — $20-million — will help build the new facility, and the remaining $10-million will endow research in eye diseases. Mr. Glick graduated from Indiana University in 1942 with a bachelor’s degree in business.
• The New York University Child Study Center has received $30-million from Michael Recanati, whose family ran a shipping company, and Ira Statfeld, co-owner of a home-design store in East Hampton, N.Y., to establish the Asperger Institute. The bulk of the gift, $20-million, is earmarked to support clinical services, educational programs, and research on Asperger’s syndrome, a developmental disorder thought to be related to autism. The donors asked that the remainder of the gift, $10-million, go to the center’s capital campaign. The couple’s son was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome two years ago.
• An anonymous donor has committed $15-million to the Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation to renovate and expand its central library. The donor stipulated that the library must raise an additional $15-million in order to receive the gift. The new addition will add 180,000 square feet to the Central Library on Logan Square.
• John Brown University, in Siloam Springs, Ark., has received a pledge of $10-million from an anonymous donor to endow scholarships and other programs. The university must raise another $10-million from other donors in the next five years to receive the gift.
• Ohio State University, in Columbus, has received a pledge of $10-million from Joe Engle, co-founder of Loctite, a Hartford, Conn., manufacturer of adhesives and sealants, and his wife, Elizabeth. Loctite was bought by the Henkel Corporation, a German company, in 1997. The gift will establish a scholarship fund to provide tuition, room, board, books, supplies, and other educational expenses to needy students from Ohio’s Coshocton County. Mr. Engle graduated from the university in 1943 with a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering.

Other recent gifts:

Andrews U. (Berrien Springs, Mich.): $8.5-million from an anonymous couple to build a new entrance to the university, endow two professorships, build a milking parlor at the university’s dairy, renovate the kitchen and dining areas of the Campus Center, and support the aeronautics department.

Appalachian State U. Foundation (Boone, N.C.): $1-million from Ron Harper, co-founder of the Harper Corporation of America, a printing-supply manufacturer in Charlotte, N.C., to support the printing-education program, scholarships, and other needs in the department of technology. Mr. Harper made the gift in honor of his wife, Katherine, co-founder of the Harper Corporation.

Arizona State U. (Tempe): $1-million from Bob Ramsey, owner of Professional Medical Transport, an ambulance company in Tempe, to support and expand the executive-education program at the School of Public Affairs.

Bayley Place (Cincinnati, Ohio): $1-million from an anonymous family to pay for the care of needy residents at this retirement community and Eldermount Adult Day Program.

California Lutheran U. (Thousand Oaks): $5-million pledge from Jim Swenson, founder of Details Inc., a technology company in Anaheim, Calif., and his wife, Sue, to help build a new science facility that will expand research opportunities for faculty members and undergraduate and graduate students. The university also received $1-million from Carol and Jack Gilbert, founder of the Zero Corporation, an electronic-packaging company in Burbank, Calif., and the TOLD Corporation, a real-estate development company in Camarillo, Calif., to renovate the Pederson Administration Building and other facilities, and $1-million from Marvin Soiland, owner of the Soiland Company, a pipeline-installation corporation in Santa Rosa, Calif., and his wife, Fran, to help build a new campus center. Additionally, Joe and Pat Paulucci, owners of PTS Furniture, in Thousand Oaks, Calif., have pledged $1-million to help build a new facility for the university’s National Public Radio station.

Carnegie Mellon U. (Pittsburgh): $1-million from Bruce McWilliams, chairman of Tessera Technologies, an electronics company in San Jose, Calif., and his wife, Astrid, to endow a fellowship in the College of Science. Mr. McWilliams received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics in 1978, and doctoral degree in physics in 1981, all from Carnegie Mellon.

Central Oregon Community College (Bend): $1-million pledge from Frank Jungers, retired chairman of Arabian American Oil Company, and his wife, Julie, to help build a facility for the college’s expanded culinary program.

Colonial Williamsburg (Va.): $1-million from Bill Lane, former owner of Lane Publishing Company, in Menlo Park, Calif., and his wife, Jean, to endow the position of director of coach and livestock. This program provides horse-drawn carriages and farm animals to this living-history museum of colonial America.

Columbia U. (New York): $1-million from Daniel J. Edelman, founder and chairman of Daniel J. Edelman Inc., a public-relations firm in New York, to help build a new student center for the Graduate School of Journalism. Mr. Edelman graduated from the university in 1940 with a bachelor’s degree, and from the journalism school in 1941 with a master’s degree.

Cornell College (Mount Vernon, Iowa): $2-million pledge from Richard Williams, a founding partner of Hlustik, Huizenga, Williams & Vander Woude, a law firm in Chicago, and his wife, Marlene, to support campus visits by speakers and performers. Mr. Williams, who graduated in 1963 with a bachelor’s degree in history, saw Martin Luther King Jr. speak at the college in 1962.

Elim Christian Services (Palos Heights, Ill.): $1.4-million from Jerry and Lynn Thrall and their family to support its capital campaign to expand its services for developmentally disabled children and adults in the Chicago area. Mr. Thrall is co-founder and chairman of Thrall Enterprises, an ink manufacturer in Chicago. One of the Thralls’ grandchildren, Adam, is a student in Elim’s autism program.

Fordham U. (New York): $5-million from E. Gerald Corrigan, a managing partner at Goldman Sachs, in New York, to endow scholarships and a professorship in international business and finance at the university’s Graduate School of Business Administration. Mr. Corrigan graduated from Fordham in 1965 with a master’s degree and in 1971 with a doctoral degree, both in economics.

Green Mountain College (Poultney, Vt.): $1-million unrestricted bequest from the estate of Beverly Thomsen Fleischmann, co-owner of Frech Funeral Home, in Dumont, N.J. The gift will be used to support the college’s capital campaign. Ms. Fleischmann, who graduated from the college in 1939 with an associate’s degree in liberal arts, died last year at the age of 85.

Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago): $1-million bequest from the estate of Sadie F. Berkson, the widow of I.J. Berkson, a lawyer in Chicago, to support scholarships and the Reserve Reading Room at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. Ms. Berkson died last year; her husband graduated from the law school in 1918.

Joliet Junior College Foundation (Ill.): $4.3-million bequest from the estate of Vera C. Smith, retired director of admissions and records at the college, to create an endowment for scholarships and programs. Ms. Smith died last year at the age of 102.

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (New York): $1.2-million unrestricted bequest from an anonymous donor. The gift will support general operations.

Kimball Union Academy (Meriden, N.H.): $5-million unrestricted gift from an anonymous couple. The money will support the academy’s endowment.

Lahey Clinic Medical Center (Burlington, Mass.): $8-million from Sheila and Emanuel Landsman for its capital campaign. Mr. Landsman is a co-founder and former director of the American Power Conversion Corporation, a commercial power-supply company in Kingston, R.I., that recently merged with Schneider Electric, a French company.

Llanfair Retirement Community (Cincinnati): $2.3-million unrestricted bequest from the estate of Roland M. Hauck, $2-million bequest from the estate of Clara L. Curry, and $1.9-million bequest from the estate of Helen C. Hauck, all former residents at Llanfair. The gifts from Ms. Curry, who died last year at the age of 90, and Ms. Hauck, who died in 1991 at age 79, will endow a fund for residents who can no longer pay the costs of their housing or medical care. Mr. Hauck, who was Ms. Hauck’s brother, died in 2004.

New Hampton School (N.H.): $1-million from Robert D. Kennedy, retired chief executive officer of the Union Carbide Corporation, a chemical and polymers company in Houston, for a new multipurpose athletic field. Mr. Kennedy graduated from the school in 1950.

Northeastern U. (Boston): $1.5-million from Robert Shillman, founder and chairman of Cognex Corporation, a Natick, Mass., company that manufactures vision systems for machines, to endow a professorship at the School of Technological Entrepreneurship. Mr. Shillman graduated from Northeastern in 1968 with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.

Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center (Hartford, Conn.): $5-million planned estate gift from Daniel O’Connell, a retired human-resources executive at United Technologies, an industrial-technology corporation in Hartford, and his wife, Nancy, to help build a new eight-story patient tower. The couple’s son, John, was treated for cancer at the hospital before he died in 1996.

Saint John’s Health Center (Santa Monica, Calif.): $6.5-million pledge from Carolyn Dirks, president of the Joseph B. Gould Foundation, in Los Angeles, for the center’s John Wayne Cancer Institute. The gift will create a translational-research and clinical program to study prostate cancer, endow a fellowship in urology, help build a urology laboratory, and purchase surgical equipment.

Shands HealthCare (Gainesville, Fla.): $1-million from Marshall Criser, president emeritus of the U. of Florida, in Gainesville, and his wife, Paula, to help build its new cancer facility at the U. of Florida Cancer Hospital. Mr. Criser, who graduated from the university in 1949 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and in 1951 with a law degree, is also a retired partner at McGuire Woods, a law firm in Jacksonville, Fla.

Southeast Missouri State U. (Cape Girardeau): $1-million bequest from James Harold Paullus, a retired entomology researcher at Del Monte, a food company in San Francisco, and his wife, Lenore, to establish three scholarships for students who are studying agriculture, biology, or home economics. Mr. Paullus, who graduated from the university in 1930 with a bachelor’s degree in education, died in 1989 at age 79, and Ms. Paullus died in 2005 at age 92.

St. Catherine’s School (Richmond, Va.): $3-million from an anonymous donor to help renovate three historic buildings, which will house assembly areas, classrooms, performing-arts rooms, and science laboratories. The gift is given in honor of Auguste J. Bannard, who is retiring after serving for 18 years as the head of school.

U. of California at Los Angeles, Fowler Museum: $1-million pledge from Ralph Shapiro, chairman of Avondale Investment Company, in Los Angeles, and his wife, Shirley, to endow a discretionary fund for the director of the museum.

U. of Florida (Gainesville): $1-million from Nathan S. Collier, founder and owner of the Collier Companies, which develop, manage, and renovate real estate, in Gainesville, to support the graduate real-estate program at the Warrington College of Business Administration.

U. of New Hampshire (Durham): $1-million pledge from Thomas P. Putnam, former chairman of the Markem Corporation, a printer-manufacturing company in Keene, N.H., to support scholarships, coaches’ salaries, and equipment for the university’s ski program. Mr. Putnam, who attended the university for two years before entering the Army, was captain of his freshman ski team.

U. of Oregon (Eugene): $5-million from Tim Boyle, president of Columbia Sportswear, a clothing company in Portland, Ore., and his wife, Mary, to support a business-plan competition and create a new academic program in product design and material studies at the School of Architecture and Allied Arts.

Union College (Schenectady, N.Y.): $2-million unrestricted gift from David J. Breazzano, co-founder and principal of DDJ Capital Management, an investment-management firm in Waltham, Mass. The gift will be used to support the college’s capital campaign. Mr. Breazzano graduated from the college in 1978 with a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics.

Virginia Commonwealth U. (Richmond): $1-million from Rick Boyko, managing director of the university’s Adcenter, and his wife, Barbara, to support the advertising school’s capital campaign and to endow a scholarship.

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— Compiled by Anne W. Howard