UCLA Gets $20-Million Donation; Other Gifts

Three higher-education institutions have received big gifts.

• Eli and Edythe Broad, of Los Angeles, have donated $20-million to the School of the Arts and Architecture at the University of California at Los Angeles for a new art complex.

  The facility will be named for Mr. Broad, chairman of SunAmerica, in Los Angeles, and his wife. Their donation is expected to cover about half the cost of constructing the new center.

• The University of Notre Dame has received a bequest of more than $16-million from the estate of William J. Carey, of Dallas. Mr. Carey, who died in 1997, was a 1946 graduate of the university. He founded Congdon-Carey, a mineral exploration company in Grand Junction, Colo.

  The gift will be used to support the renovation of Notre Dame’s Hesburgh Library, establish a scholarship fund, and finance the Erasmus Institute, which fosters scholarly work that emphasizes Catholic intellectual traditions.

• An Akron, Ohio, couple has pledged $10-million to Mount Union College, in Alliance, Ohio, to help construct a new science building. The gift was made by Vanita Bauknight Oelschlager, a 1963 Mount Union graduate and a college trustee, and her husband, Jim, chief executive of Oak Associates, an investment-management company in Akron. The gift is the single largest in the college’s 154-year history.

Other recent gifts:

Arts Center Stage (Tex.): $5,000,000 from Tom Meredith, managing director of Dell Ventures, in Austin, Tex., the venture-capital arm of Dell Computer, and his wife, Lynn, for the creation of the Joe R. and Teresa Lozanzo Long Center for the Performing Arts.

Bentonville (Ark.) High School: $5,000,000 from Ferold Arend, retired Wal-Mart Corporation president, and his wife, Jane, to build the Arend Art Center; $1,000,000 from Jack Shewmaker, a Wal-Mart executive, and his family, to equip the Arend Art Center.

Central Missouri State U: $1,000,000 from Ray Piper of Columbia, Mo., a former crew chief for CBS, and his wife, Mary, head of the Nailzon Company, a nail-products retailer, to purchase digital-television technology for the Department of Communication’s television-instruction studio.

College of Our Lady of the Elms (Mass.): $1,000,000 from William Frain of Holyoke, Mass., a stockbroker at PaineWebber. Half of the gift is to endow the Mary Wojciechowski Antroll scholarship fund, named in memory of his mother; the other half is not restricted.

Converse College (S.C.): $6,000,000 from Susu Phifer Johnson of Spartanburg and her husband, George Dean Johnson Jr., chief executive officer of Extended Stay America, a national hotel chain, for construction of the Phifer Science and Technology Center.

Georgetown U. (Washington): $5,000,000 from Scott K. Ginsburg of Dallas, founder of Evergreen Media Corporation and chairman of Digital Generation Systems, for the Scott K. Ginsburg Health and Fitness Center, to be built at the university’s law center; $2,000,000 from Patricia and Patrick Callahan of Chicago, to endow the Patricia and Patrick Callahan Family Chair in Computer Science. He is managing director of the Chicago office of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, an investment bank,

Idaho State U. : $2,000,000 from James M. Rupp of Minneapolis, the retired founder of JR Communications, and his wife, Sharon, to create an endowment for its debate society.

Iowa State U.: $1,000,000 from John Pappajohn of Des Moines, president of Equity Dynamics, a venture-capital company, to further the work of the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center.

Johns Hopkins U. (Md.): $2,000,000 from Alvin H. and Mildred G. Blum of Pikesville, Md., and their family, to endow a professorship in Near Eastern Studies at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences; $2,000,000 from James P. Gills of Tarpon Springs, Fla., an ophthalmologist, to endow the James P. Gills professorship in ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute; $1,500,000 from the late Evelyn Grollman Glick of Pikesville, Md., to support the Evelyn Grollman Glick Scholar Award for cancer research, and for the construction of the Bunting-Blaustein Building for cancer research.

Kent State U. (Ohio): $1,000,000 from David and Cecile Draime of Warren, Ohio, to create the Schroth Memorial Fine Arts Series, which will bring distinguished professionals in the fields of architecture, visual arts, music, theater, and dance to campus. He is chairman of Stoneridge, a high-technology engineering company.

Landmark College (Vt.): $2,000,000 from Charles Strauch of Laguna Beach, Calif., chairman of PairGain Technologies, and his wife, Nancy, for an athletics center and for renovation of a building for classrooms.

Marquette U. (Wis.): $7,000,000 from an anonymous donor to help build a new athletics facility; the donor pledged to match up to $7,000,000 in private donations raised by the university for the building.

Saint Mary’s U. (Minn.): $7,000,000 from an anonymous donor for its capital campaign to build an endowment.

Salt Lake Organizing Committee: $2,400,000 from Janet and Frederick Lawson of Salt Lake City for support of the 2002 Cultural Olympiad, the Olympic Arts Festival connected to the 2002 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

Springfield Symphony Orchestra (Mass.): $3,000,000 bequest from the estate of William B. Schwartz of Springfield, for its endowment.

Sweet Briar College (Va.): $1,100,000 bequest from the estate of J. Stanley Hare, a real-estate company owner, and Margaret Bell Hare of Mamaroneck, N.Y., for an unrestricted scholarship fund that will bear their name and to help maintain a campus chapel.

Tulane University (La.): $2,100,000 bequest from the estate of Robert E. Friedman of New Orleans, a former general counsel for Mobil Oil, to create the Robert E. Friedman Fund, which will provide unrestricted support to the university.

United Methodist Foundation (Ark.): $3,000,000 bequest from the estate of Curtis Harris of North Little Rock, Ark., and his wife, Bernice, for an endowment that will benefit five Arkansas organizations: Trinity United Methodist Church, Camp Aldersgate, Mt. Sequoyah Assembly, Hendrix College, and the United Methodist Foundation.

U. of Iowa: $1,000,000 from John Pappajohn of Des Moines, president of Equity Dynamics, a venture-capital company, to further the work of the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center.

U. of Louisville (Ky.): $1,000,000 bequest from the estate of Gisela Kolb of Louisville, a professor of psychiatry, to create the Gottfried and Gisela Kolb Endowed Chair in the Department of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine.

U. of Memphis: $3,000,000 from Rudi Scheidt of Memphis, retired chairman of Hohenberg Bros. Company, to establish the Scheidt School of Music.

U. of Northern Iowa: $1,000,000 from John Pappajohn of Des Moines, president of Equity Dynamics, a venture-capital company, to further the work of the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center.

Washington College (Md.): $4,000,000 from the estate of William K. Perrin of Fort Belvoir, Va., a retired Army lieutenant colonel, for unrestricted use; $1,000,000 from a charitable remainder trust started by Mrs. Philip E. Nuttle of Easton, Maryland, for research in colonial studies.

Yeshiva U. School of Law (N.Y.): $5,000,000 from Stephen Floersheimer, a London investor, to establish a research center for constitutional democracy.