$30-Million Pledged to University; Other Gifts

The University of California-San Diego, in La Jolla, has received a $30-million pledge from Ernest Rady, founder of American Assets, in San Diego, and chief executive officer of Westcorp, in Irvine, Calif., to support the recently established School of Management. Half of the gift — $15-million — will be used to construct facilities, while the remainder will go to the institution when Mr. Rady dies and can be used for anything the university wants. The gift will be made via the Ernest Rady Family Foundation.

Other recent gifts:

Caritas St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center (Boston): $5-million from JoAnn McGrath and her late husband, David, founder and president of TAD Resources International (Cambridge, Mass.), to build two electrophysiology laboratories and to expand cardiovascular-care facilities. The medical center is affiliated with Tufts U. School of Medicine, also in Boston.

Chapman U. (Orange, Calif.): $5-million from Marion Knott, whose parents, Walter and Cordelia Knott, founded Knott’s Berry Farm (Buena Park, Calif.), now a resort and theme park. The gift will help construct a new building for the School of Film and Television.

Georgia Southern U. (Statesboro): $2.5-million from Karl Peace, director of the university’s center for biostatistics and a university graduate, to create and endow a school of public health.

Hobart and William Smith Colleges (Geneva, N.Y.): $1.5-million from Charles H. Salisbury, president and director of Salisbury Broadcasting Company (Baltimore) and an alumnus of Hobart College, for a center to help students at the colleges make a successful transition to graduate school or employment.

Kansas State U. Foundation (Manhattan): $2.5-million bequest from Charles Nauheim and his wife, Lois, who were both alumni of the university, to establish scholarships for students of agricultural economics, agronomy, veterinary medicine, and other fields.

Manhattan College (Riverdale, N.Y.): $2.5-million from an anonymous donor for the capital campaign.

Pennsylvania State U. (University Park): $1-million from Mildred Fiedorek and her husband, Eugene, a former executive vice president and managing director of the energy department at Republic National Bank of Dallas, to establish a scholarship in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.

Presbyterian Foundation (Louis-ville, Ky.): $6.84-million bequest from George Dunlap Jr. for church construction projects. Mr. Dunlap’s father founded a grocery-store chain in Philadelphia that became part of Albertson’s (Boise, Idaho). Mr. Dunlap, who died in 1961, created a trust in the 1950s, which is now being disbursed.

Sierra Nevada College (Incline Village, Nev.): $4-million from Wayne Prim, chairman of the college’s Board of Trustees and co-founder of Howard and Prim, a law firm in San Francisco, to construct a library.

Tidelands Community Hospice (Georgetown, S.C.): $1-million from Elizabeth Romano, co-founder of Fuddrucker’s (Beverly, Mass.) and Romano’s Macaroni Grill (Dallas), to construct a facility for terminally ill patients.

Utah State U. (Logan): $6.3-million from Kathryn Caine Wanlass, of North Logan, Utah, and Manon Caine Russell, of Logan, Utah, to construct a recital hall. Both women, who are sisters, attended the university, which their grandfather, John T. Caine, helped establish.

Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.): $1.4-million bequest from Helen Muchnic, who was a 1925 graduate and a professor of Russian literature at Smith College (Northampton, Mass.), for endowment.