Chancellor to Give U. of Denver Land Valued at $25-Million

Several non-profit organizations have received big gifts.

* The chancellor of the University of Denver, Daniel L. Ritchie, has promised land valued at $25-million to the institution; proceeds from the land’s sale will be used to bolster the varsity athletics program as the university prepares to rejoin the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division I.

* Gerard and Lilo Leeds, who chair CMP Media in Manhasset, N.Y., have given $21-million to the Institute for Community Development, a charity they started eight years ago to prevent kids from dropping out of school; the gift is intended to secure operating support for the organization as it looks to expand its programs nationwide.

* Duke University has received $20-million from the entrepreneur J. B. Fuqua to expand the faculty, support international progams, and for discretionary use at the business school that bears his name.

* St. Louis businessmen John F. McDonnell and James S. McDonnell III, directors of the Boeing Company, have given $20-million to the Washington University School of Medicine and St. Louis Children’s Hospital to construct a pediatric-research center.

* The University of Arizona’s College of Law has received $20-million from James E. Rogers, owner of Sunbelt Communications, in Las Vegas, to support the college’s expansion and library, and endow scholarships.

Other recent gifts:

Boston College: $1,500,000 from William F. Farley of Chicago, owner of Farley Industries and chairman of Fruit of the Loom, to endow a professorship in legal studies at the law school.

Career Transition for Dancers (N.Y.): $1,000,000 from Caroline H. Newhouse of New York, an artist whose husband, Theodore, is a founder of Advance Publications, for a new headquarters. This non-profit organization provides services to help dancers pursue new opportunities after their dance careers.

Claremont Graduate U. (Cal.): $1,500,000 from Henry Y. Hwang of San Marino, Cal., vice-chairman of Far East National Bank, to endow the deanship of the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management.

Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation (Minn.): $1,000,000 bequest from an anonymous donor for unrestricted use.

The Johns Hopkins U. (Md.): $2,000,000 from Benjamin H. Griswold IV of Baltimore, senior chairman of BT Alex. Brown, and his wife, Wendy, to endow Griswold Hall and for piano scholarships at the Peabody Institute, and $1,000,000 from Willard Hackerman of Baltimore, president of Whiting-Turner Contracting, for a research fund at the School of Medicine.

Meredith College (N.C.): Two charitable remainder trusts valued at $1,050,000 and $1,000,000 from separate anonymous donors for unrestricted use and for the human-environmental-sciences department, respectively.

The Potter’s House (Tex.): $1,000,000 from Deion Sanders of Alpharetta, Ga., a member of the Dallas Cowboys football team, for a new facility to be built adjacent to this church. The Potter’s House provides literacy programs, tutoring, computer training, and drug rehabilitation.

St. Cloud State U. (Minn.): $1,000,000 from Harold Anderson of St. Cloud, president of Anderson Trucking Service, to establish an entrepreneurial center.

Syracuse U. (N.Y.): $1,700,000 bequest from the estates of Louis Trupin of Philadelphia, former circulation editor of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, and his wife, Elma, to endow scholarships at the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Transylvania U. (Ky.): $1,100,000 bequest from the estate of Elsie H. Downing of Maysville, Ky., who bred cattle with her late husband, Gordon, for scholarships.

U. of California at Davis: $1,400,000 from Rand Schaal of Davis, Cal., a geology professor at the university and a real-estate investor, and his father, Ted, a real-estate investor and former pilot, for a new swimming pool and for the geology department.

U. of the Pacific (Cal.): $5,000,000 from Arthur A. Molinari of San Anselmo, Cal., a retired dentist, for scholarships and capital needs at the School of Dentistry, and a $1,300,000 bequest from the estate of F. Melvyn Lawson of Sacramento, Cal., a retired Sacramento schools superintendent, for scholarships.

U. of Southern California: $5,000,000 from Lloyd Greif of Los Angeles, president of Greif & Company, an investment-banking firm, to establish a center for entrepreneurial studies at the School of Business.

Woodmere Art Museum (Pa.): $1,000,000 bequest from the estate of Patricia Van B. Allison of Oreland, Pa., a retired plant pathologist, to endow the museum’s directorship. Xavier High School (N.Y.): $1,000,000 bequest from the estate of Joseph Kenneth Lynch of Wilton, Conn., a metalworks craftsman who restored the Statue of Liberty in the 1920s, for scholarships.

Yeshiva U. (N.Y.): $5,000,000 from Emily Fisher Landau of New York and Santa Fe, N.M., an art collector and philanthropist, to establish a center at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine to treat learning disabilities.