U. of Tampa Receives $28-Million; Other Gifts

Five universities, a college, and a museum have received big gifts.

* John H. Sykes, chairman of Sykes Enterprises, and his wife, Susan, have given $28-million to the University of Tampa. The couple designated the gift for the construction of a student center scheduled to open in 2001.

The size of the gift prompted officials to double the goal of the university’s capital campaign from $40-million to $80-million. The university has raised $59-million so far and hopes to conclude the campaign by May 2002.

Mr. Sykes’s company operates technical-support centers for customers of high-technology businesses.

* Dennis J. Keller, chairman of DeVry Inc., has given $25-million to the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business. Mr. Keller designated the gift for the school’s $175-million capital campaign, whose goal will be announced to the public in March.

Mr. Keller received an M.B.A. from the university in 1968.

* Carl and Ruth Shapiro have donated $20-million to Brandeis University, in Waltham, Mass., to design and construct a student center.

Mr. Shapiro is former chairman of Kay Windsor Inc., a manufacturer of knitted apparel. He served on the university’s Board of Trustees from 1979 to 1988.

* The widow of a pioneer of open-heart surgery has established a trust valued at $16-million to benefit the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

Kaye Lillehei, a nurse, designated $13-million to establish a heart institute at the Medical School and $3-million to finance a professorship at the School of Nursing. C. Walton Lillehei taught surgery at the university from 1951 to 1967 and invented several cardiovascular devices and surgical techniques. He died in July.

* Raymond and Ruth Perelman have given $15-million to the Philadelphia Museum of Art to help pay for the acquisition and renovation of a building across the street.

Mr. Perelman is an entrepreneur and chairman of the museum’s Board of Trustees. The couple’s son Ronald is chairman of Revlon.

* A Little Rock, Ark., couple have promised up to $10-million to Lyon College, in Batesville, Ark.

Frank Lyon Jr. and his wife, Jane, said they would match, dollar for dollar, all gifts to the college made this year up to that amount. Mr. Lyon is president of Arkansas Irrigation Company and the son of the college’s former chairman of the Board of Trustees. Arkansas College changed its name in 1994 to honor Frank Lyon Sr.

* Ann Nields Garstin, who met her husband on a 1929 study-abroad trip sponsored by the University of Delaware, has bequeathed $10-million to that institution for scholarships.

Mrs. Garstin’s husband, Geoffrey, a retired executive at E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company, died in 1976. Mrs. Garstin died last year. She left no stipulations on who may receive the scholarships.

Other recent gifts:

Arizona Cancer Center: $1,000,000 from the musician Paul McCartney of Sussex, England, for research that does not involve animals.

Belhaven College (Miss.): $2,000,000 from Warren and Elsie Hood of Jackson, Miss., retired businesspeople, to help construct a student center and for scholarships, and $1,000,000 from Oliver and Donald Triplett of Forest, Miss., brothers and retired lawyers, for the student center.

Brandeis U. (Mass.): $3,500,000 from Henry L. Foster of Boston, chairman emeritus of Charles River Laboratories, and his wife, Lois, to construct a gallery and sculpture garden at the Rose Art Museum.

Colby College (Me.): $1,200,000 from Paul Paganucci of Hanover, N.H., a banker and investor, and his wife, Marilyn, to establish a professorship in Italian language and literature.

Dana Hall School (Mass.): $1,000,000 from an anonymous alumna for the capital campaign.

Georgetown U. (D.C.): $2,000,000 from Thomas E. Caestecker of Kenilworth, Ill., an investment banker, to endow a professorship in music.

Gettysburg College (Pa.): $1,000,000 from James Corkran of Doylestown, Pa., retired director of Cottman Transmission Systems, and his wife, Enid, for unrestricted use.

Jewish Theological Seminary (N.Y.): $2,775,000 from Arthur Greene of New York, a retired businessman, and his son, Michael, an investment manager, to endow the deanship of the H. L. Miller Cantorial School and to renovate music classrooms.

Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (N.Y.): $1,000,000 from the musician Paul McCartney of Sussex, England, for research that does not involve animals.

Naugatuck Valley Community-Technical College (Conn.): $1,000,000 from Ruth Ann Leever of Waterbury, Conn., whose husband, Harold, is chairman emeritus of the chemical company MacDermid Inc., for renovations to the Mainstage Auditorium.

New Jersey Institute of Technology: Trust valued at $2,200,000 from Wilbur J. Kupfrian of Stuart, Fla., a retired patent lawyer and engineer, for unrestricted endowment.

Nova Southeastern U. (Fla.): $2,000,000 from Carl DeSantis of Boca Raton, Fla., chairman of the health and vitamin company Rexall Sundown, to help construct the Huizenga Graduate School of Business and Entrepreneurship.

Saint Cloud State U. (Minn.): $3,000,000 from James W. Miller of St. Cloud, Minn., who founded a construction company, and his wife, Marion, to endow scholarships for students from central Minnesota and for technology.

Southern Methodist U. (Tex.): $1,000,000 from R. Steven Hicks of Austin, Tex., and his brother, Thomas O. Hicks of Dallas, founders of Gulfstar Communications, to endow scholarships at the Perkins School of Theology.

U. of Chicago: $5,000,000 from Andrew M. Alper of New York, chief operating officer of the investment-banking division of Goldman, Sachs & Co., and his wife, Sharon, for the capital campaign.

U. of Kentucky: $1,000,000 from Chris T. Sullivan of Tampa, Fla., chairman of Outback Steakhouse, to help build a house for the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

U. of Notre Dame (Ind.): $2,000,000 from Joseph and Jane Giovanini of Teton Village, Wyo., a real-estate developer and a nurse, respectively, to endow a professorship in management-information systems at the College of Business.

U. of the Pacific (Calif.): $1,500,000 from Robert and Jeanette Powell of Sacramento, a real-estate developer and an interior designer, respectively, to help establish an arts center at the campus in Stockton.

U. of Washington: $2,900,000 bequest from the estate of Meg Greenfield of Washington, former editorial-page editor at The Washington Post, for the classics department. The bequest comprises a scholarship endowment, Ms. Greenfield’s summer home on Bainbridge Island, Wash., and an endowment to maintain the home.