201. LLOYD and LEOTA DUNN–$1.25 million to VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (Tenn.) to establish a chair in educational assessment at the university’s Peabody College from these Las Vegas residents.
201. FRED S. and JUNE KUMMER–$1.25 million to the UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT ROLLA, from the chairman of Hospital Building and Equipment Corp. and his wife, to renovate the Butler-Carlton Civil Engineering Building.
201. PERRY MORGAN–$1.25 million to the CHRYSLER MUSEUM OF ART (Va.), $1 million of which must be matched by other donations. Morgan is the former publisher and executive editor of the Virginian-Pilot newspaper in Norfolk.
204. LEE and DOLORES HARTZMARKand FAMILY–$1.2 million to the TEMPLE-TIFERETH ISRAEL (Beachwood, Ohio), from this securities dealer and his wife. They were inspired to make their gift after visiting a children’s library at a synagogue in Florida. The gift funded the Lee and Dolores Hartzmark Library, including separate adult and children’s libraries, with computer workstations, an aquarium, and a puppet theater. The Hartzmarks’ children funded the Hartzmark Room, a community room for prayer, study, worship, and family celebrations.
204. EVANDER HOLYFIELD–$1.2 million to WINDSOR VILLAGE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH in Houston to build a prayer center dedicated solely to the practice of communicating with God. The heavyweight boxing champion is a devout Christian.
204. TIMOTHY B. and LISA NELSON ROBERTSON–$1.2 million pledge to the UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA from the president and CEO of International Family Entertainment of Virginia Beach and his wife, to build a modern media-studies program. The gift includes $500,000 to endow a new Robertson Professorship in Modern Media Studies and $700,000 to a state-of-the-art multimedia facility to be named for the Robertsons.
204. ALBERT J. SPEH–$1.2 million to the FENWICK HIGH SCHOOL in Oak Park, Ill., from this 1937 alumnus. Speh, a trustee of the school, is co-founder of May & Speh, a national information-management and direct-marketing firm. Fenwick is a Roman Catholic school run by priests of the Dominican order.
208. WRIGHT W. and ANNIE REA CROSS–An additional $1.1 million to their earlier planned gift to the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI to establish an endowment fund. The endowment will fund scholarships for more than 10 Cross Scholars annually. “I wanted to give this additional amount because of my satisfaction with the other donation,” said 81-year-old Wright Cross, who owned Corrosion Test Supplies, Corrosion Materials, and Wright Engineering Inc. and sold them in 1981 for $8 million.
208. PAUL K. KELLY–$1.1 million to the UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA to renovate the Writers House at 3805 Locust Walk. Part of the gift will be used to rewire the building for desktop publishing. The house will be renamed the Kelly Writers House in honor of the donor’s parents. Kelly is a 1962 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania College and a 1964 graduate of the Wharton School. He is president and CEO of Knox & Co., an investment-banking firm.
210. C. HERBERT AND PAULINE EMILSON–$1.05 million to the WILDLANDS TRUST OF SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS toward the purchase of two ecologically and historically significant properties near the headwaters of the North River in Marshfield. The purchase saves the properties, which include the region’s largest freshwater tidal swamp, from residential development, ensuring that 800 acres of the North River’s headwaters valley will be preserved. The Emilsons are trustees of the Emilson Charitable Foundation Trust.
211. MADISON and LILA SELF–$1,012,500 to KANSAS UNIVERSITY from the chairman of Tioga International and president of Allen Financial Inc. and his wife, for a fellowship endowment for graduate students. The fund, which they started in 1989, now totals $20 million.
