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

46. 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.

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

46. 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.

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

46. 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.

46. THE MEYERHOF FAMILY--$3 million pledge to JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY to support several parts of the university's $900 million fund-raising campaign. Meyerhoff is a Johns Hopkins trustee who previously established an endowed a professorship in Near Eastern Studies at the university as well as a cancer prevention center at the university's School of Public Health.

57. LENOX BAKER JR. and FRANCES WATT BAKER--$2.5 million to DAVIDSON COLLEGE (N.C.) in support of the departments of biology and psychology, the life sciences. The money will go toward the construction of the planned Watson Life Sciences building. Lenox Baker, a member of Davidson's class of 1963, is a cardiothoracic surgeon in Norfolk, Va., and Frances Baker, like her mother before her, is a pediatrician. The Watt and Baker families have a long association with Davidson stretching back to 1897 when Frances Baker's father matriculated as a freshman in the class of 1901. The entire life sciences complex will be named in honor of the Bakers' father, Dr. Lenox D. Baker, Sr. and Dr. James Watt.

57. IVAN GORR--$2.5 million to the UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO College of Business Administration (Ohio) from the retired president, chairman, and CEO of Cooper Tire and Rubber Co.

57. DAVID KOCH and BARBARA KOCH--$2.5 million to the UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS (Minn.) from the chairman of Graeco Inc. and his wife for a chair in Catholic Studies and scholarships for students majoring in Catholic Studies.

60. THE MORRIS WASSERSTEIN FAMILY--$2.3 million to the HARVARD UNIVERSITY Law School to create a professorship in the area of public-interest law. The grant is the third major gift the family has made to the Law School since 1990. This is the first chair in public interest at the law school. The Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Summer Fellowship Program was created in 1992. Wasserstein's son, Bruce Wasserstein, is an alumnus of the law school's class of 1970. One of Morris Wasserstein's daughters, Wendy Wasserstein, is the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning playwright.

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