$20-Million to Emory U. for Lung Center; Other Gifts

Emory University, in Atlanta, will receive $20-million over five years from Andrew J. McKelvey, founder of a job-recruitment company, to create a lung-transplant center.

The gift will endow a professorship in lung-transplant medicine, establish a research fund to support five or more new faculty members in basic and clinical sciences related to lung disease, and finance a visiting professorship.

Mr. McKelvey founded TMP Worldwide, in New York, which runs Monster.com, a Web site for job seekers, and provides other recruitment services.

The following organizations have also received large gifts:

Alfred U. (N.Y.): $2.1-million from an anonymous donor to help renovate the university’s library and purchase library materials.

Children’s National Medical Center (Washington): $5-million in a charitable remainder trust from Ralph Stavins, of Rockville, Md., co-founder of Stavins & Axelrod Properties, in Washington, and his wife, Chong, for a fund to support research on neurological and neuromuscular diseases.

Christian Heritage College (El Cajon, Calif.): $4-million pledge from a couple who wish to remain anonymous, to help construct a new library.

Colonial Williamsburg (Va.): $1-million from Robert S. Wilson, chairman of the Duckett-Wilson Development Company, in Los Angeles, and his wife, Marion. The gift was unrestricted.

Duke U. (Durham, N.C.): $1-million from Leonard Herring, former chief executive officer of the Lowes Companies, in North Wilkesboro, N.C., and his wife, Rose, to help build a new ophthalmology research center.

Fort Vancouver Regional Library Foundation (Wash.): $1.4-million unrestricted bequest from Dorsey S. Lewis, of Cathlamet, Wash., a stock-market investor and a former data processor at the U. of Washington, in Seattle, who died in 1998.

Georgian Court College (Lakewood, N.J.): $3.5-million unrestricted bequest from a donor who wished to remain anonymous; and a $1.6-million bequest for academic programs from a donor who wished to remain anonymous.

Dr. Samuel D. Harris National Museum of Dentistry (Baltimore): $1-million from Samuel D. Harris, of Gainesville, Fla., a retired pediatric dentist, to endow a fund that will support dental-health programs for children.

Johns Hopkins U. (Baltimore): $1.9-million bequest from George and Barbara Flinn Klotz, of Baldwinsville, N.Y., to construct a research building at the medical school.

Junior Achievement International (Colorado Springs): $4-million from J.B. Fuqua, of Atlanta, founder of Fuqua Industries, a holding company, to expand its programs, which teach youths in other countries about business and economics.

Monmouth College (West Long Branch, N.J.): $1-million from Steven Pozycki, chairman of SJP Properties, a real-estate company in Parsippany, N.J., to endow a professorship in real estate, and for scholarships.

Plymouth Civic League (Minn.): $1-million from Al Hilde Jr., a former mayor of Plymouth and the founder of Satellite Industries, in Plymouth, to build a performance hall.

Rabun GapNacoochee School (Ga.): $2-million bequest from Frances Cheney Boggs, of Atlanta, who inherited money from her family, to endow a scholarship fund.

Spalding U. (Louisville, Ky.): $1-million from Bill Merke, of Highland Beach, Fla., a retired executive at the United Parcel Service, in Atlanta, and his wife, Shirley, for scholarships and a business professorship.