University Receives $40-Million; Other Gifts

Several organizations have received big gifts.

• Edward L. Gaylord, publisher of The Daily Oklahoman, has pledged $40-million to Oklahoma Christian University, in Oklahoma City, for a capital campaign to be announced this fall.

Mr. Gaylord has said he will pay the university $2-million each year over the next 20 years.

In May, he commited $22-million to the University of Oklahoma, in Norman, to establish a journalism college (The Chronicle, May 18).

• Paul G. Allen, cofounder of Microsoft, has given $11.5-million to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, in Mountain View, Calif., for a new telescope.

Nathan P. Myhrvold, former chief technology officer at Microsoft, donated $1-million to the project.

• Lewis B. Cullman, former owner of the At-A-Glance Group, which makes calendars and diaries, and his wife, Dorothy, have pledged $10-million to the Neurosciences Institute, in La Jolla, Calif.

The institute conducts research on higher brain functions such as memory and speech.

The Cullmans stipulated that the institute must raise $15-million from other sources by June 30, 2005, to receive their contribution, which the couple pledged in support of a $100-million campaign.

Other recent gifts:

Casper College (Wyo.): $5,000,000 from Neil McMurry of Casper, Wyo., founder of McMurry Oil Company, and his wife, Doris, for scholarships.

Central College (Iowa): $1,000,000 from an anonymous donor for the music department.

Champlain College (Vt.): $1,000,000 from Terry F. Allen of Ferrisburgh, Vt., president of Muddy Creek Investments, for scholarships for students from Vermont.

College of St. Catherine (Minn.): $5,000,000 from an anonymous donor for unrestricted use.

Colorado College: $1,000,000 from Phil Swan of Los Angeles, senior vice president and relationship manager at Capital Guardian Trust Company, to endow a professorship in history.

Deafness Research Foundation (N.Y.): $1,000,000 from an anonymous donor for research programs and for its national education and advocacy campaign for hearing health.

Emory U. (Ga.): $1,200,000 from Hugh Tarbutton of Sandersville, Ga., president of Sandersville Railroad Company, and his wife, Gena, for arts facilities at Oxford College, and $1,000,000 from J.B. Fuqua of Atlanta, chairman of the Fuqua Companies, for the Fuqua Center for Late-Life Depression at Wesley Woods.

Franklin Pierce College (N.H.): $1,200,000 from L. Dennis Kozlowski of Exeter, N.H., chairman of Tyco International, for academic programs and capital projects.

Hampton U. (Va.): $1,000,000 from William R. Harvey of Hampton, Va., president of the university, and his wife, Norma, to finance scholarships for students from the HamptonNewport News Peninsula who want to become schoolteachers.

Honor Society of Nursing (Ind.): $2,000,000 from Ruth Lilly of Indianapolis, great-granddaughter of the pharmaceuticals magnate Eli Lilly, to expand the electronic collections of the Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library.

Hostelling International-American Youth Hostels (D.C.): $1,000,000 from J. Ira Harris of Chicago, chairman of J.I. Harris & Associates and vice chairman of the Pritzker Organization, and his wife, Nicki, to construct a 500-bed hostel in Chicago.

Miami U. (Ohio): $1,000,000 from Jack R. Anderson of Dallas, president of the Calver Corporation, a health-care consulting and investment company, to establish a lecture series at the Richard T. Farmer School of Business.

San Jose Museum of Art (Calif.): $1,250,000 from Andy Rappaport of Woodside, Calif., a partner in the venture firm August Capital, and his wife, Deborah; the couple designated $1,000,000 to endow the position of director of education and the remainder for the museum´s endowment campaign.

Texas Lutheran U.: $1,000,000 bequest from the estate of Lorene Potchernick Haddow of San Antonio, whose family owned a sporting-goods store, for unrestricted use.

U. of California at Berkeley: $7,500,000 from Kenneth E. Behring of Danville, Calif., a real-estate developer, to expand the Principal Leadership Institute, a program to train California public-school principals.

U. of MinnesotaTwin Cities: $5,000,000 from an anonymous donor for cancer research and heart research at the Medical School.

U. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas: $2,000,000 from Mildred Wyatt Wold of Dallas, a restaurateur, and her husband, Ivor P. Wold, an economist, to establish a geriatric-care clinic.

Wyoming Community Foundation: $5,000,000 from Gayle Kinnison, Carol McMurry, and Susan Samuelson, daughters of Neil McMurry of Casper, Wyo., founder of McMurry Oil Company, for endowment.