U.S. Naval Academy Fund Wins $10-Million; Other Gifts

By Julia Green

The United States Naval Academy Foundation, in Annapolis, Md., has received a $10-million gift from Jackson T. Stephens, chairman of the Stephens Group, a Little Rock, Ark., investment-banking firm.

Mr. Stephens, who graduated from the academy in 1947, earmarked the funds for renovations of the Navy Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, in Annapolis.

Other recent gifts:

Cape Cod Hospital (Hyannis, Mass.): $1-million from Brenda and Alexander Tanger, of Newton, Mass., who own radio stations in the Eastern United States, to help build a patient-care facility.

Conservation Fund (Boulder, Colo.): $1-million from an anonymous donor to preserve Bair Ranch, undeveloped mountain land in Eagle and Garfield Counties, Colo.

Georgia State U., School of Nursing (Atlanta): $2.5-million from Kenneth D. Lewis, chairman and chief executive officer of Bank of America, in Charlotte, N.C., for faculty positions, scholarships, and teaching laboratories.

Johns Hopkins U., Krieger School of Arts and Sciences (Baltimore): $5-million pledge from Rainey Norins and her husband, Leslie, of Naples, Fla. Mr. Norins, who graduated from the school in 1958, established and sold three medical-newsletter companies.

Pacific U. (Forest Grove, Ore.): $1-million from the estate of A.E. Brim, a trustee who lived in Portland, Ore., and was chairman of the Brim Companies, a health-care company that merged with Province Healthcare Company, in Brentwood, Tenn. The gift will help construct a professional-studies building.

Saddleback Memorial Foundation (Laguna Hills, Calif.): $6.7-million unrestricted donation from Louise Meiklejohn and her husband, William, of Laguna Hills, to expand the Saddleback Memorial Medical Center, in Laguna Hills. Mr. Meiklejohn was a manager at Northrop Aircraft, now called Northrop Grumman, in Los Angeles. Mr. Meiklejohn’s father, Joseph Meiklejohn, started a package-delivery service that later became United Parcel Service.

Stamford Health System (Conn.): $5-million from Thomas Jay Bradsell, a Stamford real-estate developer, to establish a chair in infectious diseases.

U. of California at Los Angeles: $5-million from Audrey L. Wilder, widow of the filmmaker Billy Wilder, to build a movie theater at the UCLA Hammer Museum that will hold public screenings of films in the university’s film and television archives.