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

111. THE FAMILY OF DAVID C. SMITH--$1.3 million to the UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN AT MADISON for new greenhouses from the family of this late chairman of the university's Agronomy Department.

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112. CHARLES J. PRIZER and DOROTHY PRIZER--$1.25 million to the UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN to endow a chair in chemical engineering from a former vice president of Rohm & Haas and his wife.

113. PERSHING E. MacALLISTER and BECKY MacALLISTER--$1.2 million to CARROLL COLLEGE (Wis.) from the chairman of the board of MacAllister Machinery and his wife for endowment and capital improvements.

113. ALAN B. SLIFKA and FAMILY--$1.2 million to BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY (Mass.) for programs to promote greater understanding between Arab and Jewish Israelis. The gift will establish the Sylvia and Joseph Slifka Israeli Coexistence Endowment Fund, which will provide undergraduate scholarships to an Israeli Jew and an Israeli Arab annually. The Slifka family of New York are real-estate developers and investment managers.

113. NORMAN NITSCHKE--$1.2 million to the UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO from this retired engineer for a new auditorium at the College of Engineering.

113. DARWIN WIEKAMP and DOROTHY WIEKAMP--$1.2 million to INDIANA UNIVERSITY AT SOUTH BEND from the CEO of Valley American Bank and Trust Co. and his wife to equip a new classroom building.

113. LAWRENCE E. LAMB--$1.2 million to the KANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT from this newspaper columnist and physician-author, who has attended to astronauts and presidents. Dr. Lamb, a resident of Santa Barbara, Calif., has established this charitable remainder trust to honor promising University of Kansas Medical School graduates.

113. ROBERT B. HAAS and CANDICE J. HAAS--$1.2 million to establish a named visiting professorship in corporate finance law at the HARVARD UNIVERSITY Law School from this 1972 alumnus, a partner in a Dallas, Texas-based private investment firm, and his wife, founder and co-owner of the publishing firm Directories On The Go Inc.

119. MARIAM CANNON HAYES--$1.1 million to QUEENS COLLEGE from this member of the class of 1937.

119. DAVID HICKS and ANN HICKS--$1.1 million to the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA for scholarships.

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