The Also-Rans
Other known gifts of over $1 million in 1996

Introduction

The 1996 SLATE 60
The 60 largest American charitable contributions of 1996.

The Also-Rans
Other known gifts of over $1 million in 1996.

Competitive Generosity 101

11. HAROLD ALFOND and TED ALFOND--$3 million to ROLLINS COLLEGE (Fla.) for a new athletics complex from the founder of the Dexter Shoe Co. and his son.

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12. DALTON McMICHAEL--$3 million to ELON COLLEGE (N.C.) for undergraduate programs. McMichael is a Rockingham County textile manufacturer who is chairman of Mayo Yarns Inc. The gift is the largest in the school's 107-year history. McMichael's daughter, Gail Drew, is on Elon's board of trustees; his grandson, William Drew, graduated from Elon in May. His grandson and step-grandson are also Elon students. McMichael is a 1938 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and had also made several gifts there, including money to help build a research department in the School of Dentistry and a faculty chair in the School of Business.

13. MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG--$3 million to HARVARD UNIVERSITY from this Business School alumnus to endow the William Henry Bloomberg Professorship in honor of his late father. The new chair will support research, teaching, and course development in the fields of philanthropic policy and practice, public service and volunteerism, and management of non-profit and public institutions. Five of the university's faculties--Arts and Sciences, Business, Divinity, Government (the Kennedy School), and Law--will share the professorship. Bloomberg is the founder of Bloomberg Financial Systems. His $55 million gift to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins, in 1995 was one of the largest gifts every made to higher education.

14. ALPHONSE FLETCHER JR.--more than $3 million to HARVARD UNIVERSITY to establish a university professorship from the 1987 graduate and chairman and CEO of Fletcher Asset Management Inc. in New York City. Fletcher is a trustee of the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, the New School for Social Research, and the Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival. He has also served as chairman of the New York campaign of the United Negro College Fund.

15. HELEN FRASER and RICHARD FRASER--$3 million to the (Boston) MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS for the restoration, care, and maintenance of the museum's Garden Court, which has been closed to the public since 1983. The donation is the second to the museum's current campaign. The gift makes the Frasers, who've contributed more than $3.1 million to the capital drive, the most generous donors to the campaign. The Garden Court will be renamed the Helen and Richard Fraser Garden Court. It is located at the center of the museum and will reopen in Spring 1996.

16. BURTON GROSSMAN and MIRIAM GROSSMAN--$3 million to JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (Md.) from the chairman and CEO of Grupo Continental and the president of Jack's Chocolate Chip Cookie, respectively, for blindness-prevention research and to create a professorship at the Wilmer Eye Institute.

17. JOAN B. KROC--$3 million to the UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO (Calif.) for student loans from this McDonald's heir.

18. JACK RICHMOND and MARGE RAYMOND--$3 million to the UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN from this retired district sales manager and his wife for athletics and other programs.

19. THOMAS PHILIPPE and JOAN PHILIPPE-- $3 million to INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY for the performing-arts center.

20. RAYMOND P. LAVIETES--$3 million to HARVARD COLLEGE for the support of the college's basketball program and a major renovation of the Briggs Athletic Center from this alumnus of the Class of 1936.

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