HONORABLE MENTIONS
Other known gifts of over $1 million in 1996.

Introduction

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

HONORABLE MENTIONS
Other known gifts of over $1 million in 1996.

The Top 10 Anonymous Gifts of 1996

New 1997 Gifts

8. THE REV. MARTA JOAN SUTTON WEEKS--$6 million to the UNIVERSITY OF UTAH for a new College of Mines and Earth Sciences Building in honor of her father, a petroleum geologist. The Rev. Weeks is a priest in Miami in the winter and in Midvale, Utah, during the summer.

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12. JAMES MICHENER--$5.5 million to three cultural institutions in Doylestown, Pa., the novelist's hometown. Through the Michener Marital Trust, established by Michener and his late wife MARI, he pledged $3.5 million to the endowment of the JAMES A. MICHENER ART MUSEUM, to which he had previously donated $2.5 million. The MERCER MUSEUM and the BUCKS COUNTY FREE LIBRARY, both of which Michener credits with stirring his imagination as a youngster, will each receive $1 million. The best-selling author has donated more than $100 million to libraries, universities, and museums over the course of his 40-year career, and was named the National Society of Fund Raising Executives' Outstanding Philanthropist for 1996.

13. JAMES L. BARKSDALE--$5.4 million from the president and CEO of Netscape Communications Corp. to his alma mater, the UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI, to start an honors program to be called the McDonnell-Barksdale Honors College. The university said the gift will help it attract the state's brightest students and keep them from going elsewhere.

14. ARTHUR BLANK--$5 million to BABSON COLLEGE (Mass.) from this alumnus of the class of 1963. Blank is the co-founder of Home Depot.

14. WILLIAM BOND JR.--$5 million to the UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME (Ind.) from this alumnus and senior partner in the Memphis, Tenn., investment and asset management firm Bond, Johnson & Bond. The gift underwrote the nearly completed renovation and expansion of the architecture building at the university--the building has been renamed Bond Hall. The gift was kept anonymous until recently. Among his other gifts was one of $1.2 million, made in 1984, to establish the Montedonico Fellowship master's degree program in architecture in honor of his mother, Rose Montedonico Bond.

14. ANTHONY CAPOZZOLO--money, sculpture, real estate, and personal possessions, valued at $5 million, to the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN COLORADO from this Palm Springs, Calif., retired choreographer and producer, for performing-arts programs, scholarships, and an annual arts and music festival.

14. ELAINE DANNHEISSER--Seventy-five works by some of the most fashionable artists of the last few decades, a collection valued at more than $5 million, have been given to New York City's MUSEUM OF MODERN ART. The gift includes paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, installations, and video art. The works come from Dannheisser's private collection and from the Dannheisser Foundation, a nonprofit organization she and her husband founded in 1975 to support the arts. Dannheisser, who for years has been a passionate collector of what she calls "tough art," was recently elected to the board of the museum.

14. FRANK M. DOYLE FAMILY--$5 million to endow a scholarship fund for students in the HUNTINGTON BEACH UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT (Calif.). It is believed to be the largest scholarship gift to an Orange County high-school district. Frank M. Doyle developed thousands of Huntington Beach homes and several shopping centers in the 1960s and 1970s. Since moving to Reno two decades ago, he often talked about giving back to the community that had given him so much. Since Doyle's death last Mother's Day, his widow, TRUDY, has tried to turn his dream into a reality. Doyle attended Fordham and Rutgers universities, but left before graduation because of family responsibilities.

14. FREDERICK ERB and BARBARA ERB--$5 million to the UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Business School to bridge the gap between environmentalists and the business community. Both Erbs are alumni of the university. Frederick Erb inherited, and later sold, the Erb Lumber Co. chain, now based in Birmingham, Mich. The Erb Institute will be administered by the Business and Natural Resources schools.

14. WILLIAM T. FITZGERALD--$2.5 million to the UNIVERSITY OF AKRON (Ohio) from the retired president and CEO of Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. to establish an institute for entrepreneurial studies in the College of Business Administration. ALSO--$2.5 million to the University of Akron from this alumnus of the class of 1950 to establish the William T. and Rita Fitzgerald Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies with the College of Business Administration. This is the largest individual gift ever made to the university in its 125-year history. TOTAL: $5 million.

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