Cornell University Gets $100-Million; Other Gifts

Several institutions have received big gifts.

* Cornell University, in Ithaca, N.Y., has received $100-million from an anonymous donor to help pay for a campus make-over.

Officials intend to renovate the university’s West Campus, which comprises residential and dining facilities for upperclass students, and incorporate academic and social programs into students’ living spaces.

The project is part of a $500-million effort to bolster undergraduate facilities, programs, and scholarships.

* Steven Ferencz Udvar-Hazy, a Hungarian émigré who built a fortune leasing commercial jet aircraft, has given $60-million to the National Air and Space Museum for its planned Dulles Center in the Washington suburbs.

Mr. Udvar-Hazy (pronounced OOD-vahr HAH-zee) is president of International Lease Finance Corporation, in Los Angeles. He and his family fled Budapest during the Soviet Union’s crackdown on the 1956 Hungarian revolution and settled in New York two years later.

The museum also announced a $130-million capital campaign for the Dulles Center, which has raised $90-million to date.

* The University of California at Berkeley has received $50-million from an anonymous donor. The gift supports a $500-million campaign to bolster health research.

The “Health Sciences Initiative” has raised $124-million to date, including the $50-million gift. The university hopes to finance the work of as many as 400 scientists from several fields to advance cancer treatment, medical imaging, therapies for brain and spinal injuries, and knowledge of genetic and infectious diseases and dementia.

* Duke University, in Durham, N.C., has received $35-million from Edmund T. Pratt, Jr., retired chairman of Pfizer Inc., to endow its engineering school. Other than the gift from the industrialist James B. Duke that transformed Trinity College into Duke University in 1924 — roughly $150-million when adjusted for inflation — Mr. Pratt’s donation is the largest ever to the university.

The university has named the School of Engineering in honor of Mr. Pratt, who graduated from Duke in 1947.

* Haverford College, in Pennsylvania, has received $15-million from Daniel Koshland, a biochemist, for a new science facility. The complex will be named after Mr. Koshland’s late wife, Marian, an immunologist.

Other recent gifts:

Albany Academy (N.Y.): $5,000,000 from James F. Caird of Redondo Beach, Cal., founder of Auto Insurance Specialists, for unrestricted use.

Albright College (Pa.): $1,500,000 from P. Kenneth Nase of Sinking Spring, Pa., a retired ophthalmologist, to endow a professorship in biology.

Arizona State U.: $5,000,000 from David Lincoln of Paradise Valley, Ariz., president of Arizona Oxides Company, and his wife, Joan, to expand the Center for Applied Ethics at the College of Business.

Brewton-Parker College (Ga.): $1,644,000 from Dennis (Chock) Sikes of Vidalia, Ga., a retired veterinary medical investigator, and from the estate of his late wife, Quinelle, a clothier, to endow seven professorships.

Dartmouth College (N.H.): $3,500,000 bequest from the estate of Charles C. Jones, a bridge engineer, for the Thayer School of Engineering.

Duke U. (N.C.): $5,500,000 from Aubrey McClendon of Oklahoma City, president of Chesapeake Energy, and his wife, Kathleen, for capital projects and scholarships.

Emory U. (Ga.): $1,500,000 from an anonymous donor to expand and renovate performing-arts facilities at its two-year campus in Oxford, Ga.

Goodman Theatre (Ill.): $1,000,000 from Lewis Manilow of Chicago, chairman of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, and his wife, Susan, for the capital campaign.

Hamilton College (N.Y.): $1,500,000 from Richard W. Couper of Clinton, N.Y., president emeritus of the New York Public Library, and his wife, Patricia, to endow the librarian’s position.

Iowa State U.: $3,000,000 from Gary Hoover of Omaha, retired vice-president of Tenaska, an energy company, and his wife, Donna, to help construct the Engineering Teaching and Research Complex.

James Madison U. (Va.): $1,000,000 from Stephen R. Leeolou of Greensboro, N.C., a former television anchorman and co-founder of Vanguard Cellular, and his wife, Mary C. (Dee Dee), to help build an alumni center and for athletics.

Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit: $5,000,000 from Eugene Applebaum of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., founder of the Arbor Drugs chain, and his wife, Marcia, to expand and renovate the Maple/Drake Jewish community campus, which has been renamed in the couple’s honor.

LeMoyne College (N.Y.): $1,000,000 from W. Carroll (Nick) Coyne of Syracuse, N.Y., a lawyer, to help construct a performing-arts center.

National Jewish Medical and Research Center (Colo.): Land and a trust totaling $3,600,000 from Richard Alderson of Colorado Springs, whose father, Roy, founded a construction company, and Richard’s wife, Louise, for research on diseases that affect the immune system.

Rochester Area Community Foundation (N.Y.): $1,000,000 from an anonymous donor to benefit the Hochstein Music School.

Syracuse U. (N.Y.): $5,000,000 from Gerald Cramer of Westchester, N.Y., co-founder of the investment-advisory firm Cramer, Rosenthal, and McGlynn, for the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: $4,250,000 from Edwin E. Goldberg of Bonita Springs, Fla., and his wife, Jeanne, physicians, to endow three professorships; $4,000,000 from Jack C. Richmond of Champaign, Ill., a retired sales manager, and his wife, Marjorie, to construct a broadcast-journalism facility and to endow the men’s basketball coaching position; $4,000,000 bequest from the estate of Franklin Woeltge of St. Louis, a retired engineer at Emerson Electric, for professorships, fellowships, and endowment; $2,500,000 from Robert G. Valpey of Riverside, Cal., an engineer and retired dean of two engineering schools, for professorships at the College of Engineering and at the College of Education; $2,000,000 from John L. Black, Jr., of Grand Haven, Mich., a retired food-services executive, and his wife, Marie, a retired convention-services director at McDonald’s Corporation, for a professorship in veterinary oncology; and $1,000,000 from Max Noel Pike of Monticello, Ill., a former automobile dealer and a farm manager, for scholarships for athletes.

U. of the Pacific (Cal.): $1,000,000 bequest from the estate of Nada Konrad of San Francisco, whose late husband, Arthur, was a dentist, for scholarships at the School of Dentistry.

U. of Southern California: $1,000,000 from George Handtmann of Carpinteria, Cal., executive managing director of Provident Investment Counsel, and his wife, Janet, a photographer and equestrian, for the School of Fine Arts.

U. of Utah: $1,250,000 from Jon M. Huntsman of Salt Lake City, chairman of the chemical company Huntsman Corporation, to endow a professorship in the School of Business.

Westminster College (Pa.): $3,000,000 from Andrew McKelvey of New York, chairman of TMP Worldwide, an advertising company, to help construct a campus center. Mr. McKelvey’s gift must be matched dollar for dollar by other sources by June 30, 2000.

Wright State U. (Ohio): $2,500,000 from Oscar Boonshoft of Dayton, Ohio, a retired engineer at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, to endow a professorship in health-systems management.