U. of Kansas Receives $10-Million; Other Large Gifts

Two education institutions have received big gifts:

• Charley W. Oswald, of Edina, Minn., has given $10-million to the Kansas University Endowment Association.

  Mr. Oswald, the former chairman of National Computer Systems, in Eden Prairie, Minn., now part of NCS Pearson, designated $6-million of his gift for the university’s economics department, $3-million for unrestricted use, and $1-million for the business school.

• Noble and Greenough School, a middle and high school in Dedham, Mass., has received a pledge of $10-million from a donor who wishes to remain anonymous.

  The funds will be used for financial aid and faculty compensation. Of the total, $5-million is a challenge gift that the school will receive if it raises $10-million from other donors.

  A second anonymous donor committed $8-million to the school for unrestricted use.

The following nonprofit groups also received big gifts:

Albany Medical Center (N.Y.): $1.3-million pledge from Phyllis E. Dake, of Saratoga, N.Y., executive vice president of Stewart’s Shops, which runs a chain of convenience stores and makes ice cream and other dairy products, to endow a professorship and a research fellowship at the Neurosciences Institute. Mrs. Dake has Huntington’s disease, a neurological disorder.

Andrews U. (Berrien Springs, Mich.): $6.6-million from John Howard, of St. Joseph, Mich., who invested an inheritance from his father, an insurance salesman, and his wife, Dede, to help build a performing-arts center.

Chapman U. (Orange, Calif.): $2.5-million from Jerre Stead, the former chief executive officer of Ingram Micro, in Santa Ana, Calif., and his wife, Mary Joy, for the university’s organizational-leadership program.

Columbus State U. (Ga.): $2-million from John Cunningham, of Columbus, a retired businessman, to establish the Cunningham Sales and Leadership Institute and to help build a conference center.

Hamline U. (St. Paul): $1.5-million bequest from Martin A. Ehlers, who owned the Ehlers chain of clothing stores in Minnesota, to endow a scholarship fund for students from rural southwestern Minnesota.

Illinois State U. (Normal): $2.5-million from K. Patricia Cross, a professor emeritus of the U. of California at Berkeley, to endow the Cross Chair in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

John Carroll U. (Cleveland): $3-million from John G. (Jack) Breen, of Shaker Heights, Ohio, the retired president of the Sherwin-Williams Company, and his wife, Mary Jane, to endow the Institute of Catholic Studies.

Johns Hopkins U. (Baltimore): $1.3-million from Wanda T. King, of Barstow, Md., to endow a fund for pediatric endocrinology.

Kansas State U. Foundation (Manhattan): $2-million pledge from Hal Ross, of Wichita, Kan., a former owner of Ross Industries, a flour-milling company, and his wife, Mary Lou, to help construct five grain-science buildings at the College of Agriculture.

Kansas U. Endowment Association (Lawrence): $1-million pledge from Robert H. Malott, of Kenilworth, Ill., former chairman of the FMC Corporation, in Chicago, and his wife, Elizabeth (Ibby) Hubert Malott, for landscaping and signs at an entrance to the university’s campus.

New School U. (New York): $1.1-million from Bernard L. Schwartz, chairman of Loral Space and Communications, in New York, for a program based at the Center for Economic Policy Analysis.

Palm Beach Atlantic College (West Palm Beach, Fla.): $2.5-million from Carl DeSantis, founder of Rexall Sundown, a vitamin and nutritional-supplement manufacturer in Boca Raton, Fla., to build a chapel on campus.

Palm Beach Playhouse (Jupiter, Fla.): $1-million from Milton Maltz, of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., chairman of the Malrite Company, in Cleveland, and his wife, Tamar, to help purchase the Jupiter Theatre.

Pennsylvania State U. (University Park): $1-million from William A. Donan, of Alpharetta, Ga., a retired executive at Cardinal Health, in Dublin, Ohio, to endow a professorship in business administration.

St. Edward’s U. (Austin, Tex.): $3-million pledge from George Kozmetsky, of Austin, a co-founder of Teledyne Technologies, in Los Angeles, and his wife, Ronya, for endowment; and a $2.7-million bequest from Robert Ragsdale, who owned Ragsdale Aviation, in Austin, for unrestricted use.

U. of Denver: $4-million pledge from James P. Craig III, vice chairman of Janus Capital, in Denver, and his wife, Rebecca, to help renovate a building that houses the school of social work; and $1-million from Larry A. Mizel, chairman of M.D.C. Holdings, a home-building company in Denver, to help construct a new building for the law school.

U. of Evansville (Ind.): $2-million bequest from Nathaniel (Ned) Herts, a retired lawyer in New York, and his late wife, Elda Patton Herts, a psychiatrist, for scholarships and to help renovate a building.

U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: $2.5-million pledge from David McNelis, deputy director of the university’s Carolina Environmental Program, and his wife, Gladys Hau McNelis, to provide scholarships in environmental studies, fellowships in environmental science and engineering, and a professorship.

U. of Southern Colorado (Pueblo): $2-million bequest from Caroline Cramer Voss, of Pueblo, who used to own a music store with her late husband and was a private investor, for music scholarships.

U. of Virginia (Charlottesville): $1.5-million from Paul G. Kimball, of New York, a managing director at Morgan Stanley, to endow two creative-writing fellowships.

Youngstown State U. (Ohio): $1-million bequest from John Andrews, of Boardman, Ohio, a retired executive at the Youngstown office of the Associates Discount Corporation, to endow an accounting professorship.