Tulane, UCLA Receive Big Donations; Other Gifts

Five higher-education institutions have received big gifts.

* Tulane University, in New Orleans, has received an unrestricted bequest of $18-million from the estate of Lallage Feazel Wall, whose father, William C. Feazel, built a fortune in the oil business.

Mrs. Wall died in February. She had received treatment for migraine headaches in the 1950s and 1960s from university doctors, and had financed research at Tulane on the ailment. The university has placed the gift in its endowment.

* The University of California at Los Angeles has received $18-million from Glorya Kaufman to renovate the building that houses its dance department.

Mrs. Kaufman is the widow of Donald Kaufman, co-founder of the construction firm Kaufman & Broad, and a long-time supporter of dance programs at U.C.L.A.

* Concordia University, in River Forest, Ill., has received $15-million from a local couple to construct a center that will consolidate the College of Education and its early-childhood laboratory school. Doris Christopher, chief executive officer of the Pampered Chef, a company that sells kitchen tools, and her husband, Jay, also designated a portion of their gift for yet-to-be-determined capital needs.

* The University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, has received an unrestricted $13.3-million donation from William H. Goodwin, Jr., president of CCA Industries, in Richmond, and his wife, Alice, for the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration.

The Goodwins’ gift follows a recent $10-million donation from the retired investment banker David A. Harrison III to create a facility for the study of American culture, history, and literature that will augment a new library complex.

* George D. Cornell has given $10-million to Rollins College, in Winter Park, Fla., to endow scholarships. Mr. Cornell, a retired banker and a descendant of the telegraph pioneer and university founder Ezra Cornell, made the donation to honor his late wife, Harriet, who died in August.

Other recent gifts:

American Boychoir School (N.J.): $1,500,000 from Jan Lodal of McLean, Va., former principal deputy undersecretary for policy at the U.S. Department of Defense, and his wife, Elizabeth, to endow the music directorship.

Boston Latin School: $3,000,000 from Harry Keefe, Jr., of Greenwich, Conn., founder of the investment firm Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, to endow the Library and Media Center; $2,000,000 from Andrew J. Viterbi of La Jolla, Cal., vice-chairman of Qualcomm, to endow a directorship in technology; and $1,000,000 each from Patrick Roche of Marshfield, Mass., founder of Roche Bros. Supermarkets, for unrestricted endowment; William Schawbel of Needham, Mass., chief executive officer of Schawbel Corporation, for the college-research center; and Sheldon Seevak of New York, retired partner at Goldman, Sachs and Company, and his wife, Elinor, to endow a professorship in history.

Boston Symphony Orchestra: $5,000,000 from Julian Cohen of Chestnut Hill, Mass., a senior partner at Leatherbee & Company and at C&R Management, and his wife, Eunice, to endow the managing director’s position.

Chapman U. (Cal.): $5,000,000 from Harry S. Rinker of Newport Beach, Cal., a real-estate developer, and his wife, Diane, for the capital campaign.

Clark Atlanta U.: $1,000,000 from Herman J. Russell of Atlanta, chairman of the real-estate developer H. J. Russell & Company, for entrepreneurship programs. The amount must be matched dollar for dollar from other sources.

College of Saint Rose (N.Y.): $2,000,000 from Kenneth Lally of Niskayuna, N.Y., a retired businessman, and his wife, Thelma, a retired teacher, for the School of Education.

Drew U. (N.J.): $5,000,000 from Eleanor Haselton Barrett of Westwood, Mass., granddaughter of the institution’s co-founder, Leonard Baldwin, to endow scholarships.

George Washington U. (D.C.): $2,000,000 from Laszlo N. Tauber of Potomac, Md., a surgeon and real-estate owner, for professorships in neurosurgery and in ethics at the Medical Center.

Georgia College and State U.: $1,000,000 from Herman J. Russell of Atlanta, chairman of the real-estate developer H. J. Russell & Company, for entrepreneurship programs. The amount must be matched dollar for dollar from other sources.

Harvard U. (Mass.): $5,000,000 from Samuel J. Heyman of Wayne, N.J., chairman of GAF Corporation, for fellowships to encourage Harvard Law School graduates to work for the federal government, and $2,500,000 from His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan IV, the 49th hereditary Imam of the Shia Imami Ismali Muslims, to endow a professorship in landscape architecture and urbanism in Islamic societies at the Graduate School of Design.

Merrimack College (Mass.): $2,500,000 from Francis E. Girard of Wakefield, Mass., chief executive officer of Comverse Network Systems, to establish a school of business and international commerce, and $1,000,000 from Robert J. Fabbricatore of Waltham, Mass., chairman of CTC Communications Group, for a professorship in entrepreneurship.

Michigan Technological U.: $2,200,000 from James A. Mack of East Rutherford, N.J., president of Cambrex Corporation, and his wife, Lorna, to endow a professorship in cellular and molecular bioengineering, and to support the Chemical Engineering Department.

Morehouse College (Ga.): $1,000,000 from Herman J. Russell of Atlanta, chairman of the real-estate developer H. J. Russell & Company, for entrepreneurship programs. The amount must be matched dollar for dollar from other sources.

Northern Virginia Community College: $5,200,000 bequest from the estate of Mary Collier Baker of Des Moines, a high-school business teacher and widow of Raymond Baker, a director of Pioneer Hi-Bred International, for unrestricted use.

Saint John’s Health Center (Cal.): $1,000,000 from Flora L. Thornton of Beverly Hills, Cal., an actress and the widow of Charles (Tex) Thornton, founder of the engineering company Litton Industries, to endow education programs.

Saint Xavier U. (Ill.): $1,000,000 from Brian Shannon of Burr Ridge, Ill., former chairman of Berkshire Foods, and his wife, Susan, for capital needs and operations. The university must raise $2,000,000 from other sources by March 10, 2000, to receive the gift.

Southwestern College (Kan.): $1,000,000 from Lauren Kilmer of Tulsa, Okla., an inventor, and his son, Richard, of Austin, Tex., a violinist, to support the strings program at the performing-arts department.

Tuskegee U. (Ala.): $1,000,000 from Herman J. Russell of Atlanta, chairman of the real-estate developer H. J. Russell & Company, for entrepreneurship programs. The amount must be matched dollar for dollar from other sources.

U. of California at Santa Barbara: $1,400,000 from Linda Dozier of Santa Barbara, co-founder of NaviSoft Inc., and her husband, Jeff, a meteorologist and professor, for scholarships for graduate students at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management.

U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor: $5,000,000 from the family of the late Edward Ginsberg of Cleveland, a corporate and real-estate lawyer, to endow the Center for Community Service and Learning.

Wabash College (Ind.): $5,000,000 from Robert E. Knowling, Jr., of Atherton, Cal., president of Covad Communications, for the capital campaign.