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

65. PAULINE LEWIS HAYWORTH--$2 million to QUEENS COLLEGE (N.C.) from this alumna of the class of 1950.

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65. INGE RENNART and IRA RENNART--$2 million to NEW YORK UNIVERSITY from this trustee and her husband, the president of the Renco Group, a holding company, to establish the Lillian Vernon Global Faculty Residence.

65. STEPHEN DAVID ROSE and MARILYN GADDIS ROSE--$2 million to the STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON for program support.

65. THE WILLIAM HEWLETT FAMILY--$2 million for MENLO COLLEGE (Calif.) for program support.

65. THOMAS P. JOHNSON--$2 million to ROLLINS COLLEGE (Fla.) for a campus center from the former co-owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team.

65. 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.

65. 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.

65. 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.

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

65. 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.

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