September 6, 2001 | Read Time: 2 minutes
The following charities recently received large gifts:
Bates College (Lewiston, Me.): $1-million from Norman E. Ross, a retired treasurer of the college who died last year, and his late wife, Marjorie Pillsbury Ross, for endowment.
East Carolina U. (Greenville, N.C.): $5.5-million bequest from Verona Joyner Langford, of Farmville, N.C., who died last year, to endow the library.
Emory U. (Atlanta): $2-million gift from Jane Fonda, the former actress and fitness instructor, for a center to study infancy, childhood, and adolescence at the school of medicine, and to endow a professorship in the department of gynecology and obstetrics.
Illinois Central College Educational Foundation (East Peoria): $1-million pledge from Lee Morgan, the retired chairman of Caterpillar, in Peoria, and his wife, Mary, to build a structure for the school of industrial technology.
Johns Hopkins U. (Baltimore): $3-million bequest from Sarah Hall Sayler, of Baltimore, to construct a cancer-research center; and $1-million from T. Boone Pickens, of Dallas, the chairman of Mesa Petroleum, for research at the Wilmer Eye Institute.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America (New York): $4-million bequest from Herbert A. Tonne, a former professor of business education at New York U. and the State U. of New York at Albany, for unrestricted purposes.
Rutgers U. Foundation (New Brunswick, N.J.): $7-million bequest from Margaret B. Beldon, of Bridgeport, Conn., who died last year, and her former husband, Willard H. Sahloff, a former vice president at General Electric, in Fairfield, Conn., for academic and athletic scholarships.
Santa Monica College Foundation (Calif.): $1.5-million bequest from John F. Drescher, of Santa Monica, a retired aircraft engineer who died last year. The gift was unrestricted, and the college will use a portion of it to establish an earth-science professorship.
U. of Texas at Austin: $4-million from Herb Kelleher, who founded Southwest Airlines, to establish a center for entrepreneurship and to endow a professorship in entrepreneurship at the business school.
Wake Forest U. (Winston-Salem, N.C.): $3.7-million pledge from Petro Kulynych, a co-founder of Lowe’s Companies, in North Wilkesboro, N.C., for a center at the university’s hospital to study dementia. Mr. Kulynych donated $1.2-million as an outright gift.
Washington Art Consortium (Bellingham): $1-million from Bagley Wright, of Seattle, a retired businessman, and his wife, Virginia, for the consortium’s endowment.
