$30-Million Pledged to Princeton U.; Other Gifts

The president of eBay and her family have committed $30-million to Princeton University to help build a new residential college. Meg Whitman received a bachelor’s degree in economics from the university in 1977, and she is a member of its Board of Trustees. Her husband, Griffith R. Harsh IV, is a physician.

The university’s residential colleges generally include dormitories, dining halls, and facilities such as coffeehouses, libraries, seminar rooms, study areas, and theaters.

Other nonprofit groups have also recently received large gifts:

Baptist Health Foundation (Little Rock, Ark.): $3-million bequest from Mary Ann Boyd, of Fountain Hill, Ark., a former nurse at the Baptist Health Medical Center at Little Rock, whose late father, John Boyd, owned more than 3,500 acres of Arkansas timberland and was a partner in the Boyd & Nichols General Store, to support the medical center’s cardiovascular program.

CentraCare Health Foundation (St. Cloud, Minn.): $1.5-million from Dan Coborn, the retired chief executive of Coborn’s, a company in St. Cloud that owns grocery, liquor, and other retail stores, and his wife, Mabel, for a capital campaign.

Central Arkansas Radiation Therapy Institute Foundation (Little Rock): $3-million bequest from Mary Ann Boyd, of Fountain Hill, Ark., whose late father, John Boyd, owned more than 3,500 acres of Arkansas timberland and was a partner in the Boyd & Nichols General Store, for unrestricted use.

Chapman U. (Orange, Calif.): $2-million from George L. Argyros, a former real-estate developer who last year became the U.S. Ambassador to Spain, for a capital campaign to help build a library; and $1-million from C. Stanley Chapman, of Pacific Grove, Calif., who founded an investment, real estate-development, and management company and whose grandfather founded the university, and his wife, Joan Mt. Pleasant Chapman, also for the library’s capital campaign.

Long Foundation (Austin, Tex.): $10-million pledge from Joe R. Long, a former Texas banker, and his wife, Teresa Lozano Long, to establish an endowment to benefit Hispanic youths in Texas.

Oakland U. Foundation (Rochester, Mich.): $1-million from Dennis Pawley, a former executive vice president of the Chrysler Corporation, now DaimlerChrysler, and chairman of Pawley Enterprises, in Farmington, Mich., to establish a management institute.

Orange Coast College Foundation (Costa Mesa, Calif.): $1-million from Trudy Doyle, of Reno, Nev., whose late husband, Frank, was a real-estate developer, to help build an arts building that will house galleries and a cafe.

Rochester Area Foundation (Minn.): $1.1-million bequest from Virginia B. Hartridge, who was a physician at the Mayo Clinic, for a fund to support education, music, and other programs.

State U. of New York at Buffalo: $1-million from Vaughn Beals, a former chairman of Harley-Davidson, and his wife, Eleanore Woods Beals, a former teacher, to endow a professorship in urban and rural education.

U. of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (Little Rock): $1-million from Hank Sopher, the principal of the Sopher Group, a parking company in New York, for the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy.

U. of Oklahoma (Norman): Estimated $1-million bequest from Myrle Greathouse, the former president of Wes-Tex Drilling, an oil company in Abilene, Tex., and a former football player for the university, for the athletics department.