Foundation in South Carolina Gets $34-Million; Other Gifts

Three organizations have received large gifts or pledges:

• The Community Foundation Serving Coastal South Carolina, in Charleston, has received a $34-million bequest from Frances P. Bunnelle, whose first husband, Charlie Peace, was an owner of the Greenville News-Piedmont. Ms. Bunnelle earmarked the funds for organizations in Georgetown County, and set aside part of the money specifically for annual gifts to the Pawleys Island-Litchfield Rescue Squad, in Pawleys Island, and to the Saint Frances Humane Society, the Tara Hall Home for Boys, and the Tidelands Community Hospice, all in Georgetown. Ms. Bunnelle died in 2000 at age 95. Mr. Peace died in 1958, and Ms. Bunnelle’s second husband, Robert Ellsworth Bunnelle, died in 1988.
• The University of Miami’s School of Music has received $33-million from Phillip and Patricia Frost. The donation, which opened the university’s capital campaign, will support facilities, faculty chairs, and student scholarships. Mr. Frost, who is chairman of the university’s Board of Trustees and also of the capital campaign, serves as chairman and chief executive officer of IVAX Corporation, in Miami, a pharmaceuticals company.
• St. Vincent-St. Mary High School, in Akron, Ohio, has received a $10-million pledge from David Brennan, founder and chairman of White Hat Management, a for-profit company in Akron that runs charter schools in Ohio, and his wife, Ann. The funds, which will be distributed over five years, have been earmarked for the endowment, land acquisition for campus expansion, and renovation of current facilities. Mr. Brennan, whose mother also attended the school, graduated from St. Vincent High School in 1949. Ms. Brennan’s father attended St. Mary High School. The two schools merged in 1972.

Other recent gifts:

Elon U. (N.C.): $1-million from Edna Truitt Noiles, a 1944 graduate, and her husband, Douglas, co-founder and former executive vice president of Joint Medical Products Corporation (Stamford, Conn.), for religious and spiritual-life programs and internships.

Johns Hopkins U. (Baltimore): $1-million from Daniel P. Amos, chairman and chief executive officer of Aflac (Columbus, Ga.), to support research at the School of Medicine.

Nazareth College (Rochester, N.Y.): $5-million pledge from B. Thomas Golisano, president and chief executive officer of Paychex (Rochester), for the capital campaign.

Nevada Cancer Institute (Las Vegas): $1-million from Stephen Cloobeck, president and chief executive officer of Diamond Resorts International (Las Vegas), and his wife, Chantal, to support education, patient care, and research.

Purchase College, State U. of New York: $1-million bequest from Luella Slaner for the Asian-studies program.

Putnam County Historical Society and Foundry School Museum (Cold Spring, N.Y.): $1-million from Pat Dugan, founder and chairman of PDI (Upper Saddle River, N.J.), a health-care sales and marketing company, and his wife, Marion, to renovate the museum.

St. Lawrence U. (Canton, N.Y.): $1-million from Richard F. Stradling Jr., a retired executive at Procter & Gamble (Cincinnati) and a 1964 graduate, and his wife, Gail, for the organic-chemistry facilities in a new science complex.