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

40. FRANKIE HARRELL and STAN HARRELL--$4 million to METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES in Tampa, Fla., to help finance a major expansion of its facilities. The expansion, called Project Uplift, will provide a comprehensive care center for homeless and at-risk families and individuals. Harrell, a longtime supporter of Metropolitan Ministries, said the couple's gift already has spurred others to help the charity raise the $20 million it needs to pay for the project.

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42. STEVEN HAZY and CHRISTINE HAZY--$3.5 million to DIXIE COLLEGE (Utah) for the School of Business.

42. YASUHISA TSUZUKI and KIMIKO TSUZUKI--$3.5 million pledge to HARVARD UNIVERSITY Graduate School of Education (Mass.), which will focus on early childhood development viewed from an international perspective and will support scholarship and research activities and travel grants. Yasuhisa Tsuzuki is president, and Kimiko Tsuzuki vice president, of the Tsuzuki Integrated Educational Institution in Japan, a group of schools founded 40 years ago by Yasuhisa Tsuzuki's parents.

42. STEVEN UDVAR-HAZY and CHRISTINE UDVAR-HAZY--$3.5 million to DIXIE COLLEGE to construct the Erno and Etel Udvar-Hazy School of Business from this Hollywood, Calif., co-founder of International Lease Finance Corp. and his wife.

42. ROBERT J. VLASIC--$3.5 million to the UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN to endow the deanship of the College of Engineering.

46. 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.

46. 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.

46. 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.

46. 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.

46. RICHARD FRASER and HELEN 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.

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