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

91. RALPH LEATHERBY and ELEANOR LEATHERBY--$1.5 million to CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY for a Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics.

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91. RUTH STRICKER-DAYTON and BRUCE DAYTON--$1.5 million to MACALESTER COLLEGE to help build a new residence hall, which will be named in her honor. Ruth Stricker-Dayton is a trustee of the college and a businesswoman. One of the features of the hall will be a center for health and wellness. Stricker-Dayton is a 1957 Macalester graduate and is the founder, owner, and director of The Marsh, a center for balance and fitness in Minnetonka, Minn. In 1975, she was diagnosed with lupus, an chronic disease in which inflammation of connective tissue and membranes around joints and muscles makes movement painful. She founded The Marsh 10 years later. In 1994, she received the Healthy American Leader Award in recognition of her leadership in the mind-body approach to wellness.

91. JOHN MELLENCAMP--$1.5 million to INDIANA UNIVERSITY for an indoor-sports practice facility. The building, paid for with $6 million in private funds, is called the John Mellencamp Pavilion.

91. WILLIAM THUMEL JR.--$1.5 million to the UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE (Md.) for undergraduate- and graduate-student scholarships in business. This is the largest gift in the school's 72-year history. Thumel is a 1969 graduate of the university and donated the money in honor of his father. The university has said it will name the building that houses the Merrick School of Business for William Thumel Sr. William Thumel Jr. is the founder of Abacus Temporary Services, the nation's fourth-largest temporary-employment-services company.

91. RICHARD E. O'LEARY and ANN O'LEARY--$1.5 million to the UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN to endow a fund in the College of Education.

91. JOHN O'QUINN--$1.5 million to help build a counseling center for sexually abused children from this Houston attorney. The O'Quinn donation is the largest single gift the center has received to date.

91. WILLIAM F. REILLY--$1.5 million for merit scholarships to the UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME.

108. MASON RUDD and MARY RUDD--$1.4 million to the UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE (Ky.) from the founder of Rudd Equipment Co. and his wife, for a chair in the School of Medicine neurology department.

109. LOWELL ANDREAS and NADINE ANDREAS--$1.4 million to MANKATO STATE UNIVERSITY (Minn.) from the chairman of the executive committee of the board of the Archer Daniels Midland Co. and his wife to build an experimental theater for student actors and other artists.

110. TEVE CHEHEYL--$1.4 million in cash, equipment, and services to DARTMOUTH COLLEGE (N.H.) from this 1967 alumnus and his company, BayNetworks. This gift from the retired senior executive as well as a similar one from his BayNetworks colleague VAHRAM ERDEKIAN '71 will speed up the delivery of network services and access to Internet resources.

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