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. JEFFREY J. MILLER and PAULA MILLER--$2 million to the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA to establish a chair in the School of Public Administration. The chair will be named the Jeffrey J. Miller Chair in Government, Business, and the Economy.

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65. IONE PIPER--$2 million to the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA School of Public Administration to endow the dean's chair, to be known as the C. Erwin and Ione L. Piper Dean's Chair in Public Administration, in Piper's husband's memory. Piper earned the school's first doctoral degree and was the first chief administrative officer of the City of Los Angeles, the city's highest non-elected official. The school's current dean, Jane G. Pisano, will be the first to hold the new chair.

65. SOSLAND FAMILY FOUNDATION--$2 million to HARVARD UNIVERSITY from this Kansas City family to endow the directorship of the Expository Writing Program and to establish the Sosland Prize for outstanding first-year writing. Founded in 1872 at the urging of university President Charles W. Eliot, the program is the oldest writing program in the United States. Three generations of the Sosland family have attended Harvard.

65. CAROLYN SMITH and her sons DAVID, ROBERT, DUNCAN, and FRED--$2 million to JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY for a chair in electrical engineering at the university's Whiting School of Engineering. Smith's late husband, Julian Smith, was the founder of WBFF-TV and the Sinclair Broadcasting Group.

65. MARJORIE TIEFENTHALER and LORIN TIEFENTHALER--$2 million to the UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN AT MADISON. The gift will establish chairs in real estate and English--departments that reflect the lifelong interests of the Tiefenthalers.

86. HAROLD McMASTER, HELEN McMASTER, and PHILIP GARDNER--$1.98 million to the UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO for a professorship in orthopedic biomedical engineering. McMaster, a resident of Perrysburg (Ohio), is chairman of the board of Solar Cells, a company that develops alternative energy products. Gardner is president of Findlay Industries.

87. ERNEST MARIO and MILDRED MARIO--$1.9 million to DUKE UNIVERSITY (N.C.) from the CEO of Alza, a therapeutic drug-delivery-systems company, to fund the Levine Science Research Center and for an endowed chair at the business school.

88. THE GREENSPUN FAMILY--$1.7 million to the UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA AT LAS VEGAS and its College of Urban Affairs for scholarships and professorships. The gift brings to $5 million the total that the family has given the university. The Greenspuns own the Las Vegas Sun, a daily newspaper.

89. WILLIAM WIRTZ and JERRY REINSDORF--nearly $1.6 million from the owners of Chicago's new United Center to MALCOLM X COLLEGE in Chicago. The gift, the largest financial commitment from a private donor in the school's 85-year history, was announced at a news conference in which Chicago Bulls chairman Reinsdorf and Chicago Blackhawks owner and president William Wirtz endorsed a poster-sized check for $1,585,000. The money donated to the school, one of the seven city colleges of Chicago, will be used to support academic and athletic programs. Jerry Reinsdorf is president, donor, and trustee of JMR Charities Inc.

90. MAJOR-GEN. RAYMOND E. MASON and MARGARET MASON--more than $1.6 million to OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY as part of the university's "Affirm Thy Friendship" campaign. The gift was made through the couple's Raymond E. Mason Foundation, and is designated to three areas: the Major-Gen. Raymond E. Mason Jr. Endowed Professorship in Military History, the Raymond E. Mason Sr. Endowed Professorship in Transportation and Logistics in the Fisher College of Business, and the building campaign at the Fisher College.

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