$21-Million Committed to Library; Other Big Gifts

Large donations have been made to a research and cultural center and to a university:

* Nancy and Charles Munger, Los Angeles philanthropists, have given $21-million to expand a research wing at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, in San Marino, Calif. The planned addition will provide space for the center’s rare books and manuscripts, as well as facilities for scholarly studies and conservation, curatorial, education, and technology activities.

Mrs. Munger is a member of the Huntington’s Board of Trustees, and Mr. Munger is a director and the vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, the Omaha investment company.

* The University of Miami, in Coral Gables, Fla., has announced a $10-million gift to its School of Music from L. Austin and Marta S. Weeks, of Miami. The funds will be used to construct the Marta and Austin Weeks Music Library and Technology Center, scheduled to open in early 2004. Now retired, Mr. Weeks was formerly president of Weeks-Tator Consultants, in Miami, and vice president and director of Weeks Petroleum Ltd., a Bermuda-based company established by his father. Mrs. Weeks is an ordained Episcopal priest and serves on the university’s Board of Trustees.

The donation was made in September 2000, but was not announced, as the couple preferred to remain anonymous at that time.

The following institutions also received large gifts:

DePaul U. (Chicago): $3.5-million from Richard H. Driehaus, of Chicago, founder and chief executive officer of Driehaus Capital Management, to endow a chair and establish a center in behavioral finance at the College of Commerce.

Elmhurst College (Ill.): $1-million pledge in the form of a life-insurance policy from Jack Terrill, chairman and chief executive officer of J.W. Terrill, an insurance and risk-management company in Chesterfield, Mo., and his wife, Sandy, for the Center for Professional Excellence.

Emory Eye Center (Atlanta): $3-million bequest from Stanley Whitaker, of Vero Beach, Fla., retired Southeast division manager of United Press International and a media broker for the Blackburn Company, and his wife, Myrna Newell Whitaker, for research on and treatment of eye diseases. The Emory Eye Center is part of Emory U.’s Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center.

John Carroll U. (Cleveland): $2-million pledge from Gerald C. McDonough, of Moreland Hills, Ohio, and Naples, Fla., chairman of York International Corporation, and his wife, Helen, for the capital campaign.

Johns Hopkins U. (Baltimore): $2-million from W. Harry Feinstone, of Memphis, a retired pharmaceuticals researcher who earned a doctorate from the university in 1939, to construct a lecture hall at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Helen Keller Services for the Blind (Brooklyn, N.Y.): $3-million bequest from Elisabeth Sloan Livingston, of Brooklyn, whose late husband, John Holyoke Sloan, was a lawyer, for program support.

Pacific U. (Forest Grove, Ore.): $3.5-million bequest from James Baker, of Aberdeen, Wash., a former surgeon and physician, and his wife, Laura, for endowment.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia): $5-million from Dorrance H. Hamilton, a regional philanthropist and Campbell Soup heiress whose late husband, Samuel M.V. Hamilton, was a chairman of the academy’s board, for its capital campaign and expansion.

Rhode Island School of Design (Providence): $1.5-million in a charitable remainder unitrust from a donor who wishes to remain anonymous, for the museum; and $1-million in a charitable remainder unitrust from Peter Freeman, of Providence, a former chair of the school’s board, and his wife, Mimi, for use by the school and its museum.

Saint Michael’s College (Colchester, Vt.): $3.1-million bequest from Robert G. Hodson, of Delray Beach, Fla., and Basin Harbor Club, Vt., former chairman and chief executive officer of G.L. Hodson and Son, a reinsurance intermediary company, for unrestricted use.