The 1996 SLATE 60
The 60 largest American charitable contributions of 1996.

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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

40. HERBERT IRVING--$10 million to COLUMBIA-PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTER (N.Y.) for cancer research. Irving is co-founder of Sysco Corp., the United States' largest food distributor.

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40. EUGENE LANG--$10 million challenge gift to the Eugene Lang College of the NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH (N.Y.). The gift is the largest given to the university.

40. LEONARD LAUDER--$10 million to the UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA for international studies from the president of the Estée Lauder Cos. The gift will support the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies, which was established in 1983 by Lauder, his brother, Ronald, and their mother, Estée.

40. WILLIAM LAURIE--$10 million to the UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI for a new basketball arena from this former high-school basketball coach, who breeds and trains horses and is married to the daughter of Wal-Mart co-founder James "Bud" Walton. Laurie and his wife NANCY are both fans of college basketball, and became aware of the university's need for a new arena while traveling to "away" games and seeing the modern facilities on other campuses. Laurie's only stipulation on the gift is that students be better accommodated--that is, that they be given access to more and better seats.

40. R. CLAYTON MCWHORTER--$10 million to the Samford Pharmacy School at SAMFORD UNIVERSITY in Alabama from this 1955 graduate. McWhorter is the retired chairman of Columbia/HCA, the nation's largest investor-owned hospital company. The pharmacy school has been renamed the McWhorter Pharmacy School in honor of his family. The gift is the largest received by the school from a living individual and is thought to be the largest gift made to any pharmacy school by a living individual.

40. WARREN V. (PETE) MUSSER--$10 million to LEHIGH UNIVERSITY (Pa.) for program support, the largest single donation to the university from an individual. Musser is chairman of the board, president, and CEO of Safeguard Scientifics in Wayne, Pa. He has committed $5 million to need-based financial aid for students, beginning with the class entering this fall; $3.5 million for the Musser Entrepreneurs Scholars Program; and $1.5 million as a challenge grant to complete fund raising for Taylor Gymnasium renovations.

40. LOIS POPE--$10 million to the MIAMI PROJECT TO CURE PARALYSIS (based at the University of Miami). This is the largest private gift to spinal-cord research on record. The gift will be paid over the next five years, and will endow 20 research fellowships. Pope is the widow of the founder of the National Enquirer.

40. BERNARD RAPOPORT and AUDRE RAPOPORT--a gift estimated at not less than $10 million to the College of Liberal Arts at the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN.

40. HENRY P. SLANE--$10 million to BRADLEY UNIVERSITY (Ill.) from the retired chief executive officer of the Peoria Journal Star. The gift will be used to support the university's communications and fine-arts college, as well as to endow a communications-technology fund, a professorship, and scholarships for financial aid. Slane is an alumnus of Yale University.

40. ROY VAGELOS and DIANA VAGELOS--$10 million to the UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA for the Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. Roy Vagelos is chairman of the board of trustees of the university.

40. SAM WYLY--$10 million to the UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN BUSINESS SCHOOL to expand its Executive Education Center. Wyly graduated with an M.B.A. in 1957 and then founded a series of businesses that includes Sterling Software and the Michaels Stores chain. Business School Dean Joseph White called it the largest gift made toward a dedicated building at the school. Wyly described it as a payback to Michigan for getting him started in an entrepreneurial career.

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