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

41. TIMOTHY HULTQUIST and CINDY HULTQUIST--$2 million to MACALESTER COLLEGE (Minn.) to endow a professorship in the social sciences in memory of Professor Theodore Mitau. Hultquist is a graduate of Macalester's Class of 1972 and chair of the college's board of trustees. He is an advisory director of the investment banking firm Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc. in New York City, and joined the Macalester board of trustees in 1985.

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42. DESMOND LEE JR.--$2 million to establish a remainder trust for the ST. LOUIS ART MUSEUM'S exhibition program. The museum will be able to borrow from the trust, paying interest, to help present special large-scale exhibitions. In accordance with Lee's wishes, the museum will provide 10,000 free tickets to disadvantaged children and half-price tickets to students for each show mounted with money from the trust. After Lee's death, and once the principal has grown to $3 million, the museum will be free to use the trust to purchase works of art.

43. RALPH LANDAU--$2 million to the MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY from the former chairman and CEO of Halcon International for a professorship in chemical engineering.

44. FRANK SARTZ--$2 million to the PALMER COLLEGE OF CHIROPRACTIC in Davenport, Iowa, for scholarships.

45. GERALD E. MCGINNIS--$2 million to the UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN for the chairman of Respironics Inc. for the Department of Medical Engineering laboratory.

46. JEFFREY J. MILLER and PAULA MILLER--$2 million to the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA to establish a chair in the School of Public Administration. The chair will be named the Jeffrey J. Miller Chair in Government, Business, and the Economy.

47. IONE PIPER--$2 million to the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION to endow the dean's chair, to be known as the C. Erwin and Ione L. Piper Dean's Chair in Public Administration, in Piper's husband's memory. Piper earned the school's first doctoral degree and was the first chief administrative officer of the City of Los Angeles, the city's highest non-elected official. The school's current dean, Jane G. Pisano, will be the first to hold the new chair.

48. SOSLAND FAMILY FOUNDATION--$2 million to HARVARD UNIVERSITY from this Kansas City family to endow the directorship of the Expository Writing Program and to establish the Sosland Prize for outstanding first-year writing. Founded in 1872 at the urging of university President Charles W. Eliot, the program is the oldest writing program in the United States. Three generations of the Sosland family have attended Harvard.

49. CAROLYN SMITH and her sons DAVID, ROBERT, DUNCAN, and FRED--$2 million to JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY for a chair in electrical engineering at the university's Whiting School of Engineering. Smith's late husband, Julian Smith, was the founder of WBFF-TV and the Sinclair Broadcasting Group.

50. MARJORIE TIEFENTHALER and LORIN TIEFENTHALER--$2 million to the UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN AT MADISON. The gift will establish chairs in real estate and English--departments that reflect the lifelong interests of the Tiefenthalers.

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