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

61. EMERY STOOPS and JOYCE KING-STOOPS--$2.25 million to the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA for a professorship at the School of Education.

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62. THOMAS E. SWIFT III and DOTTIE SWIFT--$2.2 million to the SHELTON SCHOOL AND EVALUATION CENTER from the owner of Swift Property Co., a real-estate investment firm, and his wife. The school serves learning-disabled students in the Dallas area. The gift, the largest in the school's 20-year history, will be used for a capital-expansion program, for scholarships, and to expand the school's use of computer and multimedia technologies. The Swifts have two children at the school, where Swift is a volunteer. Swift is a trustee and donor of the Louise T. Swift Foundation.

62. WARREN NELSON and PAT NELSON--$2.2 million to CARROLL COLLEGE (Mont.) from the co-owner of the Club Cal-Neva Casino and his wife, for unrestricted use.

64. ROBERT WEHR and JAMES R. WEHR--$2.1 million to SOUTHWEST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY to build a new hall for the marching band from the founder of Aaron's Automotive Products and his son, a real-estate investor.

65. EDWARD ARNOLD and SUZANNE ARNOLD--$2 million commitment to the UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME to endow the directorship of the university libraries from these Lebanon, Pa., residents. Arnold is chairman, president, and CEO of Arnold Industries and a 1961 Notre Dame graduate. The Arnolds have five children. A previous gift from the couple made possible the libraries' E.H. and Suzanne Family Endowment for Germanic Studies.

65. SCOTT M. BLACK and BARBARA C. BLACK--$2 million to JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY from the founder and CEO of Delphi Management Co. and the president of the Barbara Scott Gallery, respectively, for a chair in economics at the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.

65. BUD CRAY and RICHARD CRAY--$2 million to BENEDICTINE COLLEGE (Kan.) from the sons of the late founder of the Midwest Grain Products Co. for a new center for entrepreneurial studies. Bud Cray is a resident of Atchison, Kan., and Richard Cray lives in Kansas City, Mo.

65. GEORGE M.C. FISHER and ANN FISHER--$2 million to the UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN for two professorships and for uses to be determined, from the chairman, president, and CEO of Eastman Kodak and his wife.

65. JOSEPH B. GLIDENHORN and ALMA GLIDENHORN--$2 million to the UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND AT COLLEGE PARK for a center for the performing arts.

65. ADRIAN HARMON and MARGARET HARMON--$2 million to CENTRAL MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY from the chairman emeritus of the Mercantile Bank of Warrensburg and a former board member and secretary at Central Mortgage Bancshares to establish the eponymous College of Business and Economics.

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