Children’s Hospital Gets $25-Million; Other Gifts

Three institutions have received big gifts:

• Tristram C. Colket Jr., owner of Tekloc Enterprises, an investment company in Paoli, Pa., and his wife, Ruth, have given $25-million to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The money will be used to build a research center. Both Mr. and Ms. Colket volunteer at the hospital and are members of its Board of Trustees. Mr. Colket is the grandson of John T. Dorrance Sr., who founded the Campbell Soup Company.

• The Northfield Mount Hermon School, in Gill, Mass., has received securities valued at $10-million from David F. Bolger, the founder and president of Bolger & Company, a private investment company in Ridgewood, N.J. Mr. Bolger requested that his donation be used to endow scholarships, a faculty position, and a maintenance and repair fund for the school’s chapel. Mr. Bolger graduated from this private secondary school in 1950.

• The University of North Dakota Foundation, in Grand Forks, has received a $10-million bequest from Roy Danley, a retired chief engineer at Matson Navigation, in San Francisco, who died in 1994, and his wife, Elnora, a retired employment service supervisor for the State of California Employment Development Department, who died in January.

Half of the money will go toward an endowment and will be used for student scholarships and other university needs. Most of the remaining funds — $4-million — will be used to restore a 100-year-old fountain, build a memorial wall for deceased students, and construct a lounge and garden. Ms. Danley, who graduated from the university in 1937, also stipulated that $1-million of the bequest be used to construct and furnish a center for meditation and prayer.

Other recent gifts:

Arizona State U. Foundation (Tempe): $7-million from Robert McCord, chairman of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, in Phoenix, and his wife, Sharon, an investment broker at Coldwell Banker, for scholarships at the W.P. Carey School of Business. The McCords stipulated that the foundation earmark $1-million for students of the College of Business Administration at Northern Arizona U., in Flagstaff.

Council for Educational Change (Davie, Fla.): $1-million from Jacquelyn and Jeffrey Soffer, siblings who co-own Turnberry Associates, a real-estate and development company in Miami, for professional-development training for educators and for education research.

Duke U. (Durham, N.C.): $1.5-million pledge from Michael E. France, senior managing director and co-chief operating officer of Kroll Zolfo Cooper, an advisory and interim management firm, in New York, and his wife, Kathleen, to establish a professorship in ancient American art at Trinity College and at Duke’s Nasher Museum of Art. The couple’s two children graduated from Duke.

Friends of the World Food Program (Washington): $1-million from Pam Omidyar, founder and chairwoman of HopeLab, a nonprofit organization in Palo Alto, Calif., that develops technology to help chronically ill children, for food-aid operations in Darfur, Sudan. Ms. Omidyar is the wife of Pierre Omidyar, the founder and chairman of eBay.

Georgetown U. Law Center (Washington): $1-million from Bob Barker, the television game-show host, to expand the center’s animal-rights law curriculum, support student work in the field, and sponsor conferences and programs on animal protection.

James Madison U. (Harrisonburg, Va.): $2-million from Tom Dingledine, president of Exploration Partners, an oil and gas company in Charlottesville, Va., and his wife, Karyn, to endow scholarships for students who are heavily involved in community-service programs.

Kansas State U. Foundation (Manhattan): $1.6-million pledge from Dean Spencer, a cattle rancher in Netwaka, Kan., and his wife, Sharon, to endow scholarships for football players. Mr. Spencer is a 1948 graduate of the university, and Ms. Spencer graduated in 1957. The couple both serve on the foundation’s Board of Trustees.

Marshall U. Foundation (Huntington, W.Va.): $2.5-million from Arthur and Joan Weisberg, founders of Arthur’s Enterprises, a holding company in Huntington, and State Electric Supply Company, in Huntington. The money, which will be paid out over the next five years, will support the division of engineering and computer science in the College of Information Technology and Engineering.

Roswell Park Cancer Institute (Buffalo, N.Y.): $1.5-million from Lawrence P. Castellani, a former chief executive officer of Tops Markets, a grocery-store chain in Williamsville, N.Y., his wife, Joan, and their family, to establish a professorship in dermatology and to support cancer research and education programs.

San Diego State U.: $3-million from Jack R. Filanc, founder and chairman of the J.R. Filanc Construction, an Oceanside, Calif., company that builds water-treatment facilities, and his wife, Jane, to create a program in construction engineering and management. The couple gave the money to honor their daughter, Julia, who graduated from the university in 1979, and who died last year.

U. of Arizona, Eller College of Management (Tucson): $3-million from Robert McCord, chairman of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, in Phoenix, and his wife, Sharon, an investment broker at Coldwell Banker, for scholarships.

U. of California at San Diego: $1-million from Gary E. Jacobs, managing director of Jacobs Investment Company, a real-estate development firm in San Diego, and his wife, Jerri-Ann, for fellowships for graduate students in the Division of Social Sciences.

U. of Iowa Foundation (Iowa City): $1.5-million from Robert E. Youle, a commercial litigation lawyer at Sherman & Howard, in Denver, to establish a professorship in antitrust and trade regulation at the U. of Iowa College of Law. Mr. Youle earned his law degree at the college in 1976.

U. of Michigan Museum of Art (Ann Arbor): $1-million pledge from Cheng-Yang Chang, a retired Ann Arbor urologist, for a gallery that will showcase Chinese art. The museum plans to name the gallery for Dr. Chang’s wife, Shirley, who died in January. Dr. Chang, who completed his residency at the university’s medical school in 1967, also gave the museum more than 30 traditional Chinese paintings by his father, Ku-Nien Chang.

U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: $1-million pledge from George Steinbrenner, principal owner of the New York Yankees baseball team, and his family, to renovate Boshamer Stadium, where the university baseball team plays its home games.

U. of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia): $5-million from Daniel S. Och, president of the Och/Ziff Capital Management Group, an asset-management firm in New York, to establish a professorship at the Wharton School.

Weill Medical College of Cornell U. (New York): $7.25-million from Howard P. Milstein, chairman of New York Private Bank & Trust, and president and chief executive officer of Emigrant Savings Bank, in New York, and his wife, Abby, to establish a chemical-biology program focused on infectious diseases and build a chemistry facility. Mr. Milstein is a member of the college’s Board of Overseers.

Western Michigan U. (Kalamazoo): $2-million pledge from an anonymous donor who lives in Michigan. The donor stipulated that the money be used by the College of Fine Arts to hire a new faculty member, pay for new technical equipment, and support scholarships in the dance department.

White County Memorial Hospital Foundation (Monticello, Ind.): $3.5-million pledge from Pat McVady, the owner of Coast to Coast Transportation, in Monticello, for a new medical-office building. The money will be paid out over the next 15 years.

—Compiled by Maria Di Mento