Women's Philanthropy--Women's Issues: 81 entries from December 2009

During the process of research I've been doing related to women's philanthropy, I've recently become aware of an extraordinary individual who contributed greatly to the impact of women's philanthropy and what has been accomplished by this group of individuals. Resources and material have been archived through the University of Michigan website. I have included tributes to Ann Castle at the beginning of a list of women donors who have made exceedingly generous donations during the past decade. Most of this list is from 2000 forward, with the notable exception of women from earlier generations. Quite obviously this list is not exhaustive since other generous gifts from earlier years have not been included. I'm indebted to the archives for retaining this information so that I may share it with you in honor of the funding support these women have provided during the last decade.

Tributes to Ann Castle

SOURCE: http://www.women-philanthropy.umich.edu/tributes/index.html

Ann Castle's friends and colleagues at the University of Michigan are proud to recognize her important work on the vital role of women in philanthropy. Michigan was Ann's childhood home, and she and her family have had many strong ties to the University of Michigan. Ann had served as a consultant to help rebuild the research program of the University of Michigan Office of Development. She spoke to the University development community on two occasions about her research on women and philanthropy. She advised our Institute for Research on Women and Gender about funding sources. Ann was invited to work full-time in U-M development, but the success of her many other endeavors, including this excellent Web resource, proved too strong a pull in other directions.

Ann Castle of Deansboro, New York, died Tuesday, February 22, 2000 at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Utica, after a short illness. Ann was born October 10, 1951 in Addison, Michigan, daughter of Dennis L. (Jiggs) and Marjorie Ann Voorhees Castle. She grew up in Addison, Adrian, and Ann Arbor, Michigan and graduated from local schools. She earned a bachelor's degree from Smith College and a master's degree from Harvard Divinity School. During these years, she worked as an administrator at Medicine in the Public Interest and as a development assistant at Smith College and Harvard Divinity School. In 1988, she became Director of Development Research at Wellesley College. The following year, she became Director of Development Research at Harvard University, where she remained until 1997. In August 1991, she married Richard Hughes Seager in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and the two lived in Cambridge, MA. In 1997, Ann became Director of Development Research at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY, where Richard had been named Associate Professor of Religious Studies.

For the last two years, Ann worked as an independent consultant in Development Research, working for Slate.com at Microsoft, the United Nations Foundation, and the White House Conference on Philanthropy. She was a member of the Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement, serving as its president from 1992-93, and of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. She was editor of Philanthropic Digest and a nationally recognized authority on women and philanthropy.

Ann Castle, a Leader in Women's Philanthropy, Will Be Missed

Women's Philanthropy Institute News, May 2000

by Andrea Kaminski

Women's philanthropy lost a leading voice in February. Within less than a week, Ann Castle fell ill, was diagnosed with leukemia, and died from complications of the disease. As former director of development research at Harvard University and Hamilton College, Ann's intelligence and research skills were matched only by her dedication to the cause of advancing philanthropy especially by women. A decade ago, Ann began to compile a bibliography of articles, books, dissertations and other resources dealing with the topic of women and philanthropy. She made her impressive Women and Philanthropy Bibliography available at no cost to anyone who asked. In 1998, she posted her Women and Philanthropy Resource Page on the Internet (www.women-philanthropy.net) through Hamilton College. This resource is an invaluable collection of literature titles, Internet resources, organizations, and vignettes of women's giving. And this was not part of her job; it was her passion. She did it as an act of love. "Ann Castle contributed so very much to the dignity and worth of ethical prospect research, and her focus on women was a special added gift. I am truly saddened for the loss to our community, yet lightened by memories of knowing her, talking with her, and generally dreaming about the possible. Through her gifts, she was a gift," said Patricia Lewis, President of the Women's Philanthropy Institute Board of Directors. In 1998 Ann left her work in development research to devote her energies to writing, speaking, and consulting for educational and other nonprofit organizations internationally. Among her many clients were the United Nations, the White House, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Ann Castle was "the cheerful dynamo behind The Slate 60," according to Jack Shafer her publisher at the on-line Slate magazine. "There would be no Slate 60 without Ann. She was already a recognized authority on philanthropy - especially women and philanthropy - in 1996, when Ted Turner floated the idea of ranking philanthropists, Forbes 400-style," Shafer said in his editorial announcing the 1999 list. Turner wanted to motivate the super-rich by creating a list to "honor the generous and shame the stingy." "Our search for such a list-builder quickly brought us to Ann ... At our request, she dipped into her database and produced the first Slate 60 which ran in December 1996. Ever since, we've run her quarterly and annual reports of America's biggest givers," Shafer explained. Ann also contributed her expertise in philanthropy to Texas Monthly, which has run a similar list, and to the White House as it planned its first-ever conference on philanthropy. Ann Castle is survived by her husband, Richard Seager; her parents; and a sister. The family has asked that memorials be sent to: Friends of the Smith College Libraries, Neilson Library, Northhampton, MA 01063 © 2000, Women's Philanthropy Institute This editorial was published in the May, 2000 issue of "Women's Philanthropy Institute News" and is reprinted here, by permission. >>Visit their Web site

WOMEN DONORS

SOURCE: http://www.women-philanthropy.umich.edu/donors/index.html
Women donors give to all causes, organizations and institutions. They create colleges - as Sophia Smith did in 1871 - and they create women's funds - as Peg Yorkin did with her $10 million gift in 1991. They fund the study of girls' athletics - as Dorothy McNeill Tucker did in 1994 with a $1 million gift to the University of Minnesota and they fund art museums - as Beatrice Cummings Mayer did with $7.5 million to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

They fund science - as Albina du Boisrouvray did when she gave $20 million to the Harvard School of Public Health to fund projects affecting children with AIDS and they help save the planet's environment - as Harriet Bullitt and Patsy (Priscilla) Bullitt Collins did when they decided to give most of their $375 million fortune to fund environmental causes. They raise money for politics - as Merle Chambers and Swanee Hunt did when they created "Colorado's Million Dollar Day" to support the 1992 Clinton-Gore campaign and they fund high tech projects - as the anonymous woman donor did when she gave $1 million to Pine Manor College to network academic, residential, library and administrative computing and to link the College to external information sources. They fund performing arts - as Irene Diamond did with $10 million to the Juilliard School - and girls' schools, as Fiona Biggs Druckenmiller did with her $10 million gift to Spence.

Ealeen R. Abelle
2001 - Donated at least $1 million to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for a professorship in the College of Commerce and Business Administration.

Joy Abbott
2007 - Made a pledge of $6 million to the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University (Philadelphia). The donation will help fund the new Center for Musical Theater. The pledge will come through rights and royalties from the estate of Ms. Abbott's late husband, George Abbott, the writer and director of Broadway musicals, including Damn Yankees and On Your Toes.

Lois Bates Acheson
2005 - Ms. Acheson, a 1937 graduate of Oregon State University, left a $21 million bequest to her alma mater for its College of Veterinary Medicine. The majority of the gift will support the college's endowment and $1.5 million will establish a professorship. The veterinary college did not exist when Mr. Acheson was student at the University. But her love of animals motivated her to endow a scholarship for students of the college in 1980. Ms. Acheson owned Black Ball Transport, a ferry service that runs from Washington State to British Columbia.

Helen Guinn Adams
2005 - Ms. Guinn, of Fayetteville, AK, left an $8.7 million bequest to the University of Arkansas (Little Rock) for Medical Sciences. She was a 1929 graduate of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, and she owned a flower shop in conjunction with her husband, Roy. The gift came from the sale of Berkshire Hathaway stock.

Genevieve Albers
2002 - Donated $7.5 million through her estate to Seattle University for scholarships and for the School of Business and Economics.

Pauline M. Alt
2002 - Ms. Alt made a $1.5 million bequest to D'Youville College (Buffalo, NY) for campus construction and renovations. She was a professor of education at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain.

Carol A Ammon
2006 - Donated $8.5 million to Adelphi University (Garden City, NY) to create a professorship in childhood education in the School of Education, to endow scholarships for undergraduate and graduate education students, and to pay for campus improvements. Ms. Ammon, who earned an MBA at Adelphi in 1979, is founder and chairman of Endo Pharmaceuticals in Chadds Ford, PA.

Anne C. Anderson
2001 - Mrs. Anderson died in 2000 at the age of 94. She left $33.4 million to the Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network to support the hospital's teaching activities and programs. During her lifetime, she also gave the hospital $1.5 million to endow a chair in Surgery. Mrs. Anderson's late husband, Carol, was an engineer at Air Products and Chemicals, Trexlertown, PA.

Audrey G. Anderson
2007 - Ms. Anderson, who died in 2006 at the age of 98, left a $1.2 million bequest to Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA to endow scholarships for art, business administration, math and English.

Barbara Dodd Anderson
2007 - Ms. Anderson pledged $128.5 million to the George School, a Quaker boarding school in Newtown, PA. Beginning in September 2007 the school will receive $5 million a year through a trust for 15 years and then $10.7 million annually for the last five years. Ms. Anderson's fortune comes from stock in Berkshire Hathaway. Working closely with school officials, Ms. Anderson decided that $2 million of the annual $5 million payment will endow financial aid for needy students and another $2 million will endow salaries for the school's faculty and staff members. A 1950 alumna of the George School, she said she donated the money to honor her late father, a professor who taught Warren Buffett, founder of Berkshire Hathaway Company, at Columbia University School of Business. She said she also donated the money to honor teachers at the George School who had comforted and supported her, when as a student in the 1940s, her mother had been ill. Ms. Anderson's previous gifts to the George School include a total of $9.8 million, including $5 million for the school's library.

Elizabeth Milbank Anderson
(1850-1921) Created the Milbank Memorial Fund in New York to fund children's aid and community health centers

Miriam Jay Andrus
2002 - Ms. Andrus of Baltimore left a $2.3 million bequest to Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore) to support a geriatrics center at Bayview Medical Center. She earned her master's degree from the university in 1934.

Anonymous Woman Donor
2000 - A $3.5 million pledge from an alumna who wishes to remain anonymous went to Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY for a scholarship program for low-income Kentucky residents who have demonstrated leadership at school or in the community.

Anonymous Woman Donor
2000 - The University of Wyoming has received a $2 million donation from an anonymous female donor. The gift will be used to fund the University's American Heritage Center, which researches and preserves Western political documents. Specifically, $500,000 will be given to fund the Alan K. Simpson Institute for Western Politics and $1.5 million will be put into a trust fund.

Barbara Cox Anthony
2002 - Donated $3 million to endow a chair at the Orthopedic Research Center, Colorado State University (Fort Collins). She is president of the James M. Cox Jr. Foundation in Atlanta.

Martha B. Apgar
2006 - Donated $1 million to Stetson University (Deland, FL) to establish a lecture series. Ms. Apgar's late husband, John N. Apgar, Jr. founded the Somerset Tire Service in New Jersey.

Lois Ripley Arnegard
2001 - A resident of Laguna Woods, CA, Ms. Arnegard donated $1.2 million to Ripon College (WI) through a bequest to create a scholarship in honor of her father, Edwin Arthur Ripley. She was a stock market investor who died in December 2000.

Adrienne Arscht
2005 - Ms. Arscht, Chairman of Total Bank in Miami, FL made a $2 million pledge to Goucher College (Baltimore) to establish a program on ethics and leadership. The gift will honor her mother, Roxana Cannon Arscht, a judge in Delaware and a 1935 graduate of Goucher. Ms. Arscht made the pledge through the Arscht-Cannon Fund, part of the Delaware Community Foundation, in Wilmington.

Roxana Cannon Arsht
2001 - A retired judge for the state of Delaware, Mr. Arsht donated $2 million to the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) to create the S. Samuel Arsht Professorship for corporate law in honor of her late husband. He was a partner with Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell in Wilmington, DE.

Bula Buck Arveson
2002 - A resident of Portland, OR, Ms. Arveson donated $5 million through a bequest to establish an endowment at the Casey Eye Institute, part of the Oregon Health & Science University. The gift will fund research on macular degeneration.

Marie Aull
2003 - A naturalist, Ms. Aull donated $3.8 million through her estate to the Dayton Foundation to augment the endowment of the Aullwood Audubon Center and Farm. She died in August 2002.

Louise C. Averill
2000 - A resident of Mission Hills, KS, she made a $42 million pledge to Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS) to establish the Louis C. Averill Research Chair for feline diseases at the College of Veterinary Medicine. Her late husband was a cardiovascular surgeon.

Helen Dupies Bader
2001 - Donated $1.3 million from her estate to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas for research and treatment of arthriti

Mary Beth Baird
2004 - Made a $3 million bequest to the University of North Texas (Denton) for the department of biological sciences and a $1.2 million unrestricted bequest from the joint estate of Mrs. Baird and her husband, Mellon C. Baird, of Austin, TX. Mr. Baird was the former chairman of Delfin Systems, a technology company, and both he and his wife were graduates of the university.

Constance M. Baker
2001 - Donated $1 million to Indiana University at Indianapolis for the Center on Philanthropy.

Mary Collier Baker
1999 - A resident of Des Moines, IA, and a schoolteacher, she made a $5.2 million bequest from her estate to Northern Virginia Community College for unrestricted use. She was the widow of Raymond Baker, a director of Pioneer Hi-Bred International.

2000 - Donated $1 million through her estate to the University of Sioux Falls, SD to endow car maintenance. Her husband, Raymond, was a director of Pioneer Hi-Bred International.

Kathleen Banbury
2002 - Donated $1 million through a bequest to the University of Toronto to endow a chair for molecular research at the Faculty of Medicine. She was a resident of St. Catharines, Ontario.

Dorothy Cruikshank Banckstrand
2003 - Made a $1.8 million bequest to Scripps College (Claremont, CA) to endow a chair in gender and women's studies at her alma mater.

Mildred Barber
2000 - Gave a $2.5 million bequest to University of Massachusetts Amherst to endow an economics chair in honor of her mother, Helen Sheridan. A former economist with the U.S. Department of Labor in Washington, she died in October, 2000 at the age of 78.

Lorraine Walker Bardsley
2001 - Donated $1 million to Russell Sage Colleges for renovation projects.

Ann Barshinger
2004 - Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA received $10 million from Mrs. Barshinger for a life sciences building. Her husband, Richard, was a 1943 graduate of the college and former owner of the Red Lion Milling Company. He died in 2001. Mrs. Barshinger's gift will match a $10 million grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the building.

Maryjane Mayhew Barton
2006 - Left $2 million from her estate to the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, PA. She was a professional harpist whose gift will endow a professorship in harp studies and scholarships for students. Ms. Barton, who died in 2005, graduated from Curtis in 1936.

Wanda Bass
2006 - Mrs. Bass, chairman of the board of directors of the First National Bank & Trust Company of McAlester, OK donated $1 million to Oklahoma City University. The gift will be used to purchase and install wireless technology throughout the Wanda L. Bass School of Music. The music school was named after her for gifts she donated in 2002, including 105 Steinway pianos valued at $2.1 million. In addition, Mrs. Bass donated $400,000 for an endowment to maintain them. Later in 2002 she donated $8 million to help build a music center at the University, where she has been a trustee. Mrs. Bass' daughter graduated from the music school in 1979.

Virginia Basso
2004 - Bequeathed an estimated $13 million to Saint Meinrad Archabbey and School of Theology in St. Meinrad, IN. $4 million of the amount was designated for construction of a guest house and retreat center. The remainder will be disbursed over the next ten years.
Her husband Raymond, was an employee of Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis.

Sally Beaman
2001 - Donated $9 million to Belmont University (Nashville) for a student center expected to be completed in 2003. Her late husband, Alvin G. Beaman, founded the Beaman Pepsi Cola Bottling Company, a car dealership and several Tennessee radio and television stations.

Lucille Stewart Beeson
2001 - Mrs. Beeson was a resident of Birmingham, AL who died in January 2001 at the age of 95. She made an $11 million bequest to Samford University in Birmingham to endow scholarships at the university's nursing school and to establish the Dwight and Lucille Beeson Exceptional Scholars Program named for Mrs. Beeson and her later husband, a retired insurance executive. The scholars program will provide scholarships for 30 to 50 graduates of Alabama high schools each year. Mrs. Beeson also bequeathed an estimated $150 million to benefit 13 Birmingham-area charities, ranging from the Salvation Army to the Baptist Hospitals Foundation, the Birmingham Humane Society and the Alabama Zoological Society. In her will, she directed that the donation be used to endow a perpetual trust, which will pay out a portion of its interest to each of the groups.

Isabel Benham
2001 - Donated $5 million to Bryn Mawr College for building projects.

Elinor B. Tourville Bennett
2007 - Left a $6.8 million bequest to The University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT. The bequest will be used to create a fund to make available no-interest loans to help students pay for their education. Ms. Bennett, who inherited her money, died in 2006 at the age of 86.

Rosemary H. Benning
2004 - A native of Pebble Beach, CA, Mrs. Benning donated $10 million in unrestricted funds to the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, CT. She was married to Arthur E. Benning, who graduated from the school in 1930 and was the president of the Amalgamated Sugar Company in Utah.

Sadie F. Berkson
2007 - Ms. Berkson left a $1 million bequest to the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL. The gift will support scholarships and the Reserve Reading Room at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. Ms. Berskon died in 2006. Her husband graduated from the law school in 1918.

Alice Betts
2007 - Left a $1.2 million bequest to the University of California at San Francisco to support Alzheimer's-disease research and the study and treatment of arthritis. She died in 2006 at the age of 89.

Dorothy Beverly
2001 - Ms. Beverly donated $1.3 million through her estate to the University of Evansville, Evansville, IN for scholarships.

Josephine Long Biddle
2004 - A Dallas resident, Ms. Biddle left a $1 million bequest to establish two chairs in age-related macular degeneration research at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.

Beatrice Stahl Biggs
2007 - Left a $1 million bequest to Hobart and William Smith Colleges (Geneva, NY) to endow a scholarship for students who demonstrate academic achievement and financial need. A 1926 alumna of the college, Ms. Biggs died in 2004 at the age of 100.

Marcia Billhartz
2007 - Donated $1 million to the Anderson Hospital (Maryville, IL) to support cancer research, patient care and services, education and community outreach at the hospital's cancer center. She is the widow of Warren Billhartz who was the founder and chairman of FCB Banks, Collinsville, IL. Mr. Billhartz died last year at the age of 79.

Ilse Bing
2001 - Ms. Bing, a New York photographer, made a $1.5 million bequest to endow scholarships for chamber music students at Wichita State University, KS.

Lizzie Palmer Bliss
(1864-1931) A co-founder of the Museum of Modern Art, New York

Annette Bloch
2007 - Donated $1 million to the University of Kansas Hospital (Kansas City, KS) to support patient care at the hospital's new cancer center. Her last husband, Richard, co-founded H&R Block, the tax-preparation and financial services business in Kansas City, MO.

Frances Cherney Boggs
2001 - Ms. Boggs left a $2 million bequest to endow a scholarship fund at the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School, GA. A resident of Atlanta, GA, she had inherited money from her family.

Jane H. Booker
2003 - Through the charitable foundation established on her death in 1994, Ms. Booker established a $2 million chair in canine genetics at the Seeing Eye (Morristown, NJ). The organization trains dogs to aid blind people.

Ellen Warren Scripps Booth
(1863-1948) Co-founder of the Cranbrook Foundation in Detroit, Michigan

Lillian Booth
2003 - Donated $2 million to the Actor's Fund of America (New York) to support the fund's nursing home and assisted-living facility in Englewood, NJ. Her husband Ferris Booth was a private investment counselor.

Lila Mae Bornhoeft
2007 - Gave a $2 million unrestricted gift to the Swedish Covenant Hospital (Chicago, IL) to honor her late husband. Mr. Bornhoeft, who died in 2003 at the age of 92, was a retired accountant in Willamette, IL.

Betty Boutselis
2002 - Donated $2 million to St. Anselm College (Manchester, NH) in honor of her late husband, John, an alumnus and surgeon from Columbus, OH. The gift will endow a scholarship fund.

Ann S. Bowers
2002 - A former vice president of human resources at Apple Computer and director of personnel for Intel, she donated $5 million to Grinnell College (Iowa) to help renovate a science building. Her late husband Robert N. Noyce co-founded Intel.

Ruth McLean Bowers
2006 - Donated $1 million to the Cancer Therapy and Research Center, San Antonio, TX for a new center for breast cancer research.

Lee Frances Bowler
2005- Ms. Bowler, who died in 2004, donated $1 million to Bacone College (Muskogee, OK). Her bequest will endow nursing student scholarships with priority given to American Indian students. Ms. Bowler, who died in 2004, lived in Washington, DC and worked in public relations for the United States Postal Service.

Mary Ann Boyd
2001 - Ms. Boyd, a former nurse at the Baptist Health Medical Center at Little Rock left a $3 million bequest to the Baptist Health Foundation, Little Rock AK. She left another $3 million to the Central Arkansas Radiation Therapy Institute Foundation in Little Rock for unrestricted use. Her late father, John Boyd, owned more than 3,500 acres of Arkansas timberland and was a partner in the Boyd & Nichols General Store. The bequest will support the medical center's cardiovascular program.

Helene K. Bracken
2002 - Donated $2.5 million from her estate to Sandhills Community College for programs in nursing and the health sciences.

2000 - A resident of Pinehurst, NC who died in 2000 at the age of 88, Mrs. Bracken made a $2.4 million bequest to Sandhills Community College (Pinehurst, NC) for the college nursing and health-science programs. Her late husband was a physician.

Deborah A. Bricker and Kelly A. Rosen
2001 - A $1 million gift went to the Goodman Theatre, Chicago from Mrs. Bricker, chairman of the theater's board and her daughter, Kelly A. Rosen. The gift will support a theater program for children.

Johnnie Cordell Breed
Has contributed to the following organizations:

· $2 million to University of South Florida from her and her husband

· $1 million to Columbia College of South Carolina, 1995, to be used in part to update technology across the campus

· $1 million to Columbia College of South Carolina, 1993, to kick off the campaign and build a leadership center

Dana Broccoli
2003 - A resident of Beverly Hills, CA, Mrs. Broccoli donated $2 million to endow a chair in oncology at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Mrs. Broccoli's late husband, Albert, produced many of the James Bond Films.

Charlotte Killmon Wright Brown
2000 - A bequest of $6,080,000 from the estate of Ms. Brown of San Antonio will go to Goucher College (MD) for scholarships. She was a private investor.

Hermione K. Brown
2001 - A lawyer at Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown in Beverly Hills, CA she donated $1 million to Occidental College, Los Angeles to support literature programs. The gift honors her husband, Louis M. Brown, a professor of law, who died in 1996 at the age of 87.

2001 - Donated $1 million to Occidental College for programs in European literature.

Linda Brown
2000 - Linda Brown, of the Abbott and Linda Brown Foundation, has donated $1.5 million to the Center of Achievement for the Physically Disabled at Cal State Northridge. She is a CSUN alumna. The gift will be used to build four pools for the Center, which assists 600 disabled students yearly with therapy and training.

Catherine Wolfe Bruce
(1816-1900) $50,000 in 1889 to purchase a telescope for the Harvard College Observatory and $124,275 over the remainder of her life

Carolyn Bryan and her late sister, Dorothy Warnell
2004 - Donated forest land valued at $6.1 million to the University of Georgia (Athens) for the School of Forest Resources. Their father, Daniel B. Warnell, was president of Pembroke State Bank, GA and he owned large tracts of land. He was a state senator and representative.

Rebecca Randall Bryan
2001 - Ms. Bryan donated $1.8 million from her estate to Coastal Carolina University for support of programs.

Doris Buffet Bryant
2000 - The older sister of billionaire investor Warren Buffet, Doris Buffet donated more than $6.2 million to needy people through her Sunshine Lady Foundation, based in Morehead City, NC.

Helen King Brydle
2003 - A resident of Hunting Valley, OH who owned an insurance agency, Ms. Brydle made a bequest of approximately $4 million to the Animal Protective League (Cleveland) for unrestricted use. Part of the gift - $3 million - has already been received and the remainder, estimated to be more than $1 million, will be distributed after Ms. Brydle's estate is settled. Ms. Brydle also donated $3 million to the Holden Arboretum, Kirtland, OH for endowment.

Nettie Bullis
2001 - A resident of Macedon, NY, Ms. Bullis donated $12.3 million through a bequest to establish the Bullis Advised Fund at the Rochester Area Community Foundation, NY. She was a retired corporate secretary and investor who died in 1979 at the age of 86.

Jan Bullock
2001 - A gift of $1 million from Mrs. Bullock of Austin, TX went to create the Jan and Bob Bullock Distinguished Chair for Science Education. The funds were form the campaign fund of Mrs. Bullock's late husband, Bob, who served as lieutenant governor, comptroller, and secretary of the state of Texas. He was also a member for the Texas House of Representatives.

Sandra Bullock
2005 - Ms. Bullock, the popular actress, donated $1 million to the American National Red Cross (Washington, DC) for relief efforts in response to the tsunamis disasters in Asia.

Frances P. Bunelle
2003 - The Community Foundation Serving Coastal South Carolina (Charleston) received a $34 million bequest from Mrs. Bunnelle, who died in 2000 at the age of 95. Her first husband was Charlie Peace, the owner of the Greenville News-Piedmont. Ms. Bunelle designated the funds for organizations in Georgetown County, reserving part of the money for annual gifts to the Pawleys Island Rescue Squad in Pawleys Island and to the St. Frances Humane Society, the Tara Hall Home for Boys, and the Tidelands Community Hospice, all in Georgetown.

Elsie Hoffman Burkhart
2006 - Ms. Burkhart left a $1.5 million bequest to Medcenter One, Bismarck, ND to support rural health care programs, including cancer and cardiac research, as well as scholarships at the Medcenter One College of Nursing. Ms. Burkhart was a retired nurse at the San Diego Veteran's Administration Hospital.

Audrey Steele Burnand
2007 - Donated $10 million to the Zoological Society of San Diego for its Elephant Odyssey complex, which will also include California condors, jaguars, lions, tapirs and other animals.

Susan Buckley Butler
2006 - A retired partner at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and based in Bermuda, Ms. Butler donated $1 million to Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN) to build archives documenting the history of women who taught and studied at the university.
2004 - Donated $3.65 million to Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN) to endow a chair in the Center of Leadership Excellence. She is a retired consulting executive.

Marie M. Callahan
2005 - Ms. Callahan, a scientist and researcher in Rochester, NY, left a $1.5 million bequest to Nazarath College in Rochester NY for a reading clinic and other support. She had inherited much of her money from her brother, Arthur J. Callahan. A 1930 graduate of the college, she died in 2003.

Miriam Noble Camp
2004 - Made a $3.5 million bequest to St. Margaret's McTernan School Waterbury, CT.
Her husband, Orton, owned Platt Brothers and Company (Waterbury). Mrs. Camp died in 2003 at the age of 102.

Ann Campbell
2001 - Established the John B. Campbell Professorial Chair in the College of Business at Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ. The $1 million gift honors her late husband, a former chairman of Mannington Mills.

2001 - Donated $1 million to Rowan University for a chair in business.

Kelly and Shirley Campbell
2001 - Gave $1.5 million to Rowan University for the library.

Isabella Walton Cannon
2002 - Made a $1.4 million bequest to her alma mater, Elon University, Elon, NC, for student programs.

Evelyn D. Cassatt
2008 – A high school teacher in Kansas, Ms. Cassatt left an $8.5 million bequest to the Wichita State University Foundation (Kansas). The donation will be used to renovate and equip the Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic, endow professorships in the department of communication sciences and disorders, and support clinical services, faculty development and the Regional Institute on Aging. A private investor, Ms. Cassatt died in 2007.

Marcy Peterson Carsey
2002 - Ms. Peterson donated $7.5 million to the University of New Hampshire (Durham) to establish the Carsey Institute for Effective Families and Communities. A 1966 graduate of the university, she is the producer of such television shows as The Cosby Show and Roseanne.

Deborah Carstens
2007 - Pledged $20.3 million to eight charities, including: $3.3 million each to the Arizona Community Foundation (Phoenix) and the YMCA of San Diego County, CA. Gifts of $750,000 apiece will go to The Telluride Foundation and the Denver Foundation, both in Colorado. The bulk of Ms. Carstens' donation will go to trusts created by her and her late husband, William. Ms. Carstens in the principal of Gunslinger Political Consulting in Washington and Phoenix.

Marie Fletcher Carter
2001 - A $1.5 million gift from Mrs. Carter of Bettendorf, IA went to Cornell College (IA) to help build a new pedestrian mall. Her late husband Archie was a civil engineer and graduate of the college.

Pauline Carter
2000 - A $2 million bequest went from Pauline Carter of Salem, NC to the Winston-Salem Foundation, NC. A former employee at the R.J. Reynolds factory, she made a fortune from the tobacco company's stock to establish the Sam N. and Pauline H. Carter Fund, which will support programs in Winston-Salem.

Lucille A. Carver
2006 - A resident of Muscatine, IA, Mrs. Carver donated $5 million to the Center for Macular Degeneration at the University of Iowa Foundation, Iowa City to establish a non-profit genetic testing laboratory. The facility plans to develop a test for every gene known to cause a hereditary eye disease.

Berneice Castella
2000 - A gift of $6 million from the estate of Mrs. Castella went to the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, TX for research on aging. Mrs. Castella died in 1999. Her late husband founded W. F. Castella & Associates, a San Antonio engineering company.

Dale Cavalletto
2003 - Donated $2.5 million through a bequest to the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara (CA) to create a law scholarship fund in honor of her husband, George A. Cavalletto, who died in June 2000. Mr. Cavalletto was founder of Cavalletto, Webster, Mullen, and McCaughey, in Santa Barbara.

Theresa M. Caygill
2006 - A resident of Walnut Creek, CA, Ms. Caygill donated $2.5 million to the John Muir Health Foundation (Walnut Creek) for a new building for the John Muir Medical Center.

Dolores Freeman Cerro
2005 - Ms. Cerro donated $21 million to nonprofit organizations in the area of Bakersfield, CA where she lived. Recipients include California State University at Bakersfield and St. Francis Church. Ms. Cerro and her husband, Victor, earned their money through banking and farming. Ms. Cerro died in 2004.

Isotta Cesari
2004 - A resident of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Isotta Cesari made a bequest of $1.2 million to The Nature Conservancy of Michigan for acquiring, protecting, and maintaining land in Michigan. Mrs. Cesari, who immigrated to the United States from Germany, via Italy, lived throughout the United States with her beloved husband, Lamberto, before settling in Ann Arbor in the 1960s, where he became a professor of Mathematics and she a writer, poet and translator. Her greatest ambition was to be a person of action.

Jennifer A. Chalsty
2006 - Donated $5.1 million to the Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, NJ to help build its Center for Learning and Teaching. Ms. Chalsty, a member of the Center's Board of Trustees, is a former high school teacher.

Helen Snell Cheel
2005 - Ms. Cheel of Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ left a $27 million bequest to Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY. Approximately $16 million will go to support the university's endowment. The remainder will fulfill previous pledges to campus facilities. Mrs. Chell also left $16.5 million to the Emma Willard School in Troy, NY for its endowment. Ms. Cheel also left $5.7 million to the Canton-Potsdam Hospital in New York where her mother was a board member in the 1920s. The unrestricted bequest will be used for the hospital's endowment. A 1923 graduate of Emma Willard, Ms. Chell inherited some of her wealth from her father, Bertrand H. Snell, a U.S. congressman and businessman who lived in Potsdam, NY. Ms. Cheel died in March, 2005. Her last husband, Harold W. Cheel, was an engineer and real estate developer.

Theresa M. Cheng
2007 - Ms. Cheng gave $2.5 million to Mercy Health Foundation, Oskosh, WI to endow a fund to support an international medical outreach program, the center's neurosurgery program, and other projects. Dr. Cheng is a neurosurgeon at Affinity Mercy Medical Center in Oshkosh.

Marjorie Chester
2006 - Donated $1 million to the Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY to support a newly renovated education center. She is a freelance writer in East Hampton.

Marcene H. Christoverson
2006 - Donated $2 million to Florida Southern College, Lakeland, FL to construct a building to house the college's programs in languages, literature and other humanities. A trustee of the college, Mr. Christoverson is chairman of St. John Associates in New York.

Lucille Clarke
2003 - Made a $1.4 million bequest to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers International (New York) to support scholarships for mechanical engineering students. Her father was the late Charles W. E. Clarke, who was vice president and director of the United Engineers and Constructors, Philadelphia.

Michelle R. Clayman
2006 - Ms. Clayman donated $3 million to Stanford University in California to endow the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Ms. Clayman earned an MBA at Stanford in 1979 and is the founder and managing partner of New Amsterdam Partners in New York City.

Harriet Jemima Winifred Clisby
(1830-1931) Founder, Women's Educational and Industrial Union, Boston (1871)

Suzanne F. Cohen
2006 - Donated $2 million to the Baltimore Museum of Art. She is the former president of the Board of Trustees of the museum. Her gift will be divided equally to support the museum's new free admission policy and the endowment for contemporary art exhibits.

Cynthia Green Colin
$1 million to Radcliffe College (MA) for its capital campaign. The gift was earmarked to strengthen communication between Radcliffe and its alumnae and friends

Lois M. Collier
2006 - Mrs. Collier pledged $10 million to the Salvation Army of Greater New York, New York City for the expansion of two day-care centers in the Bronx as well as for programs and endowment. Her late husband was Reginald B. Collier, founder of Research Systems, an advertising research company in Evansville, IN. Mr. Collier died in 2004. Mrs. Collier is now the Chairman of Research Systems, also known as ARSgroup.

Adele S. Collins
2001 - A resident of West Bend, WI, Mrs. Collins made a $1.1 million bequest to the University of Wisconsin at Washington County (West Bend). The gift will establish a bachelor's degree program in nursing. Her husband, Curtis, was a former president of First National Bank of West Bend, now M&I First National Bank.

Elizabeth Jarvis Colt
A major nineteenth century philanthropist, Mrs. Colt gave the funds to build the Colt Memorial Wing of the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford, CT.

Mary Ellen Lawrie Conney-Higgins
2001 - A resident of Chicago, she is a 1964 graduate of Seaton Hill College (Greensburg, PA) and a director of the Cashel Foundation in Chicago which supports programs that benefit children in poor families. She donated $1 million to Seaton Hill to endow a scholarship fund for students who demonstrate academic excellence and financial need.

Susan E. Cooper
2007 - Ms. Cooper donated $7 million to the Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills, MI to support an anthropology hall, programs, salaries and operation. Ms. Cooper's father, Robert E. Flint, was the former chairman of Flint Ink in Detroit.

Helen Copley
Has contributed to the following organizations:

· $1 million to the University of San Diego for a scholarship fund from the chairman of Copley Press and the publisher of the San Diego Union-Tribune, 1995

· $2.5 million to the San Diego Symphony Orchestra, 1992

Harriet Corbett
2000 - A Portland resident, she left $4.3 million from her estate to Lewis & Clark College, Oregon, to help purchase an 18-acre estate. She was the great granddaughter of Henry Winslow Corbett, a US Senator and founder of First National Bank of Oregon.

Patricia Corbett
2000 - Ms. Corbett created a $2 million endowment for the Corbett String Quartet in Residence program at Northern Kentucky University

Camille Cosby
2005 - Ms. Cosby will endow 16 scholarships at the St. Frances Academy, Baltimore MD with a $2 million donation. More than 70 percent of students at the school live below the poverty line. The wife of the entertainer Bill Cosby, Camille Cosby attended an elementary school in Washington run by the order of nuns that now operates St. Frances Academy.

Ruthe B. Cowl
2003 - A resident of Laredo, TX, Mrs. Cowl donated $1 million to establish a center on Yiddish culture and Jewish identity at the National Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, MA. Mrs. Cowl and her late husband, Jack, owned Cowl's Music Center, in Laredo.

Frances M. Craig
2006 - A 1949 home economics graduate of Iowa State University (Ames, IA), Ms. Craig left a bequest of $12 million to support a discretionary endowment for the university's president and will endow a professorship in chemistry. Ms. Craig was a retired secretary for Greyhound Bus Lines, in Elgin, IL. She received an inheritance from her parents in 1991. She died in November, 2006 at the age of 79.

Mary Lucretia Wareham Creighton
1878 - Creighton University was founded by her $100,000 bequest.

K. Patricia Cross
2002 - Donated $2.5 million to Illinois State University, Normal, IL to endow the Cross Chair in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. She is a professor emeritus of the University of California at Berkeley.

2001 - Ms. Cross donated $2.5 million to Illinois State University for a chair in teaching and learning.

Marion Buckelew Cullen
2006 - Westminster Choir College of Rider University (Princeton, NJ) received a $5 million pledge from Ms. Cullen, for a new building. A retired civilian assistant with the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit, she was a trustee of the College from 1983 to 1989.

Phyllis E. Dake
2002 - Pledged $1.3 million to Albany Medical Center (NY) to endow a professorship and a research fellowship at the Neurosciences Institute. A resident of Saratoga, NY, she is executive vice president of Stewart's Shops, which runs a chain of convenience stores and makes ice cream and other dairy products. Mrs. Dake has Huntington's disease, a neurological disorder.

Verna B. Dauterive
2008 – Pledged $25 million to the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. The donation has not yet been allocated by the university. She is a retired principal of Franklin Avenue Elementary School in Los Angeles. Ms Dauterive met her late husband, Peter, at USC. He was the president of the Founders Savings & Loan Association in Los Angeles.

Gladys Gwendolyn Davis and Vivian Davis Michael
2001 - Gladys G. Davis and Vivian D. Michael donated $18.4 million from their estates to West Virginia University, Morgantown, where the two sisters had attended school. Gladys Gwendolyn Davis, who died in January, worked for the federal government in Washington before her return to Morgantown. Vivian Davis Michael, who died in 1998, was a stock market investor and a social studies teacher in Monogalia County, WVA. Of their total donation, $16.2 will go for scholarships, professorships and other programs at the agriculture school. The remainder will support the colleges of law and creative arts and the university's libraries.

Aletha Tente Dawson
2005 - Ms. Dawson, who died in 2003, left $1.8 million to Samford University (Birmingham, AL) for student scholarships. Ms. Dawson inherited most of her money, which derived from Coca-Cola stock.

Mary Lee Lowe Dayton
2006 - A graduate of Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY), Ms. Dayton donated $5.5 million to her alma mater to renovate the Mildred R. Wimpfheimer Nursery School for research in early childhood education. Ms. Dayton's late husband, Wallace C. Dayton, was president of Dayton Development Company which ran the retail chain that became Target, based in Minneapolis.
2004 - Ms. Dayton donated $1.5 million to install air conditioning in the alumnae house at Vassar College.

Isoble (Robin) Degnan
2007 - Through her estate, Ms. Degnan pledged $1 million to the University of Missouri at Columbia, MO. A former classical concert pianist, Ms. Degnan graduated from the university in 1948 with a bachelor's degree in music performance. Her husband, James, was a real estate developer in Pasadena, CA. He died in 2003.

Christel DeHaan
2003 - Co-founder of Resort Condominiums International (Indianapolis), Ms. DeHaan donated $8.6 million to the University of Indianapolis for capital improvements and to endow a chair in the Center for Aging and Community.

Countess Henrietta de Hoernle
2007 - Pledged $1 million to the Caldwell Theatre in Boca Raton, FL for its capital campaign to build a new theatre. The Countess' late husband, Adolf, was a German count.

Valerie Delacorte
2001 - A resident of North Palm Beach, FL, her late husband, George, founded Delacorte Publishing. She made a $1 million donation for the George and Valerie Delacorte Gallery, which will exhibit the museum's collection of Renaissance and Baroque art. Ms. Delacorte is a trustee of the museum.

Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany
2000 - The Delany sisters of Mount Vernon, NY made a $1 million bequest to create a scholarship fund at St. Augustine's College (NC) in honor of their father, Bishop Henry B. Delany, a former vice-principal at the college. The Delany sisters, who graduated from the college in 1910 and 1911, were co-authors of the book "Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years."

Zola Desmond
2001 - Ms. Desmond donated $2.2 million through her estate to Washburn University for the support of programs.

Ruth DeYoung
2002 - Made a $1.6 million bequest to Westmont College (Santa Barbara, CA) for an endowment and capital improvements. A secretary from San Mateo, CA, she was an alumna of the college.

Irene Diamond
Has contributed to the following organizations:

· "a huge gift" in the early 1990's to fund AIDS research, based in NYC

· $10 million to the Juilliard School in New York

Betty Greer Dillon
2003 - A former bank teller in Mason City, IA who died in 2001, Ms. Dillon left bequests in the form of Lee Enterprises stock, including: $2.1 million to Cornell College (Mount Vernon, IA) to support scholarships for students of communications); $1.56 million to Mercy Medical Center (Mason City, IA) to be used to help cancer patients; and $1.56 million to the North Iowa Area Community College (Mason City) to provide college scholarships and loans for local high-school graduates.

Eugenia J. Dodson
2006 - Ms. Dodson, who died in 2005 at the age of 100, left $23.5 million to the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She also left $12.1 million to the Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. Ms. Dodson specified in her will that her money was to be spent on research focused on finding cures for diabetes and cancer. Her two brothers died from complications related to diabetes and Ms. Dodson herself survived a bout of lung cancer long before she died. A former beauty salon owner, she was the widow of J. Enloe Dodson, a civil engineer who owned a partial interest in a limestone quarry in Indiana. Ms. Dodson inherited $200,000 when he died and invested that money.

Lucille Donchess
1999 - Mrs. Donchess made a bequest from her estate for $4.1 million to Wyoming Seminary (PA) for restricted use. She was the widow of Joseph Donchess, former chief surgeon at U.S. Steel.

Margaret Donovan
2001 - A resident of Medina County, OH, she donated $1 million to the University of Akron (OH) for a professorship for women in engineering. Her late husband, Robert E. Donovan, was an executive with Babcock & Wilcox

Trudy Doyle
2001- Mrs. Doyle, a resident of Reno, NV donated $1 million to the Orange Coast College Foundation, Costa Mesa CA to help build an arts building that will house galleries and a cafe. Mrs. Doyle's late husband, Frank, was a real estate developer.

Mary Anna Palmer Draper
(1839-1914) In 1886 she established the Henry Draper Memorial in honor of her late husband to finance a study of stellar spectra at the Harvard College Observatory, supported this for thirty years, and provided for it in her will.

Georgia Easton
2003 - Made a $3 million bequest to the Community Foundation of Waterloo, Cedar Falls and Northeast Iowa (Waterloo) to establish a fund for art and cultural programs, historic preservation and health programs for children and adults. Her late husband, James, had been an investor and member of the Board of Directors of the Waterloo Savings bank. An interior designer, Mrs. Easton died in January 2003.

Elise Elliott
2003 - Donated $4 million through a bequest to Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR for programs and scholarships in the College of Arts and Sciences. Ms. Elliot died on March 18, 2003.

Katherine D. Elliott
2006 - Ms. Elliott donated $1.25 million to construct a studio arts building at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY. She is chief operating officer of Peter Asset Management, a hedge fund in New York.

Lottie B. Ellis
2000 - A bequest from the estate of Miss Ellis provided $3.3 million to the Blue Grass Community Foundation (KY). A discretionary fund will provide scholarships for students from Boyle County, KY who wish to attend colleges and universities in the state. Miss Ellis was a hotel bookkeeper and an investor.

Edith Erker; Katharine Erker
2005 - Wichita State University (KS) received a $1.1 million bequest from the Erkers'estates to endow a professorship. Edith, who died in 2000, worked for several law firms and for an oil-and gas-drilling company. Her sister, who died in 2002, worked as a secretary for a local construction company.

Jeane Erley
2004 - Donated $2 million to the University of Illinois Foundation (Urbana) to create a leadership development program in the College of Business on the Urbana-Champaign campus.

Dorothy Leib Harrison Wood Eustis
(1886-1946) Founder, "Seeing Eye" to train dogs to assist blind people

Barbara Humes Euston
2006 - A resident of Pittsfield, MA, Ms. Euston left a $4 million bequest to Miss Hall's School. She was a 1929 graduate of the school. Ms. Euston left a $2 million bequest to the Berkshire Botanical Garden (Stockbridge, MA) for endowment. She was a past board member of the Garden. She also bequeathed $2 million to the Berkshire Medical Center (Pittsfield, MA) for endowment. Ms. Euston had served on the board of the Medical Center and as a volunteer at the hospital.

Marian Falk
2002 - Mrs. Falk donated $1 million to Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore) for biomedical engineering research. Her late husband, Ralph, owned Baxter International, a medical supply company in Deerfield, IL.

Sally Fantle
2004 - Ms. Fantle, whose family established Fantle's department store in Sioux Falls, SD left a $1.8 million bequest to Augustana College (Sioux Falls). The gift will go to the Center for Western Studies and for endowment. Ms. Fantle died in 2002. She was 93.

Leonie Faroll
2005 - Ms. Faroll, who died in 2003, left a $27 million bequest to Wellesley College, MA to renovate the college's power plant and science center. The bequest will also be used to buy equipment for the center. A 1949 alumna of Wellesley, Ms. Faroll worked as a marketing analyst at Scudder, Stevens & Clark in New York. Her wealth was derived from investing her earnings and an inheritance.

Elsa Farr
2006 - Ms. Farr left a bequest of $20 million to the Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network in Pennsylvania where she and her spouse had been treated. The gift will support professional development for nurses. Ms. Farr, who died in 2006 at the age of 96, was the widow of Harvey Farr, a co-founder and former president for the Farr Brothers and Company shoe stores, headquartered in Allentown, PA.

Louise Ferguson
2007 - Ms. Ferguson, who died at the age of 90 in 2006, left a $5 million bequest to the University of North Dakota Foundation, Grand Forks, ND. The bequest will support scholarships. Her husband, Bill, was a real state manager for the Atlantic Richfield Oil Company in Los Angeles. He died in 1978.

Alice Fiedler
2001 - Gave $8 million for the support of programs at Kansas State University.

Cynthia Gelsthope Fish
2006 - Ms. Fish, a community volunteer, gave $1 million to renovate campuses for the Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY. The gift will renovate campus space for the William Smith Centennial Center for Leadership, which will offer fellowships, scholarships, programs, and other resources. Ms. Fish graduated from William Smith College in 1982 with a bachelor's degree in psychology.

Mary Celestia Fisher
2005 - Ms. Fisher donated $8.5 million to the Children's Medical Center in Dallas to create a fund to aid in hiring pediatric physicians and to train young physicians to become clinical researchers. A resident of Frisco, TX, Ms. Fisher died in 2004. She was the founder of Consulting Actuarial Practice in Dallas.

Lawton Wehle Fitt
2002 - A resident of London, Ms. Fitt donated $1 million to her alma mater, Brown University (Providence RI) to endow an artists-in-residence program.

Jane Fitzpatrick
$1 million to the Seiji Ozawa Chair at Tanglewood/Boston Symphony Orchestra

Beverly Thomsen Fleischmann
2007 - Left a $1 million unrestricted bequest to Green Mountain College, Poultney, VT. The gift will support the college's capital campaign. Ms. Fleischmann died in 2006 at the age of 85. She graduated from Green Mountain College with an associate/s degree in liberal arts in 1939. She was the co-owner of Frech Funeral home in Dumont, NJ.

Emily Flory
2001 - A $1 million pledge from Ms. Flory of Portola Valley, CA will go to Manchester College, North Manchester, IN to help expand the college science center. Her late husband Paul was a professor at Stanford University and he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1974.

Edna Flower
2002 - A retired employee of Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, she made a $2 million bequest to the Greater Cincinnati Foundation (OH) for unrestricted use.

Nancy D. Floyd
2001 - Ms. Floyd donated $1 million to Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA to support the college's center for public policy analysis, which has been renamed for her. A resident of Sunriver, OR, she is the co-founder of Nth Power Technologies, a venture capital company in San Francisco.

Dorothy Flynn
2001 - Donated $1.65 to Bennington College for scholarships for artists in the teacher-education program.

Florence Foerderer
2001 - Left $21 million to three charities when she died in 1999 at age 73. She left $7 million each to the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia; Gallaudet University in Washington; and the Philadelphia Zoo. She inherited her money from her grandfather, Robert J. Foerderer, who founded the Vici Leather Dressing factory in Philadelphia.

Elizabeth Fogg
1892 - an estate gift to build the Fogg Museum at Harvard University to house "works of art of every description and the education and enlightenment of the people."

Jane Fonda

2001 - Donated $12.5 million for the Harvard Center on Gender and Education at Harvard University. Ms. Fonda, a former actress and fitness instructor, established the center at the graduate school of education that will study the ways in which children's development and learning are influenced by their gender, and will endow a professorship in gender studies at that center.

Susan L. Foote
2006 - Ms. Foote made a $7 million unrestricted pledge to the School of American Research, Santa Fe, NM for operational support and for the endowment. She is the outgoing chair of the Board of Managers at the School.

Hallie E. Ford
2007 - A former elementary school teacher and co-founder of Roseburg Forest Products, Ms. Ford donated $15 million to Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, OR. The gift will establish the Institute for Visual Education and will create new graduate programs in the fine arts.

She also donated $8 million to Oregon State University, Corvalis, OR to help build the Center for Healthy Children and Families and to recruit a director for the new institution. Ms. Ford made the latter donation shortly before she died on June 4 at the age of 102.

Josephine Ford
2006 - Mrs. Ford, who died in June 2005, left a bequest of $50 million to the College for Creative Studies in Detroit for its endowment. The only granddaughter of Henry Ford, who founded the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, MI, Mrs. Ford left $20 million to the Detroit Institute of Arts. The gift will go toward an endowment, a new building, and to museum operations. She also left the Institute a collection of artworks and antique furniture valued at $14.7 million. Mrs. Ford left $3.5 million to the Maine Coast Heritage Trust, Topsham, ME near where her family spent summers on the coast of Maine. She also left smaller gifts totaling $2.7 million to the above groups as well as to the Detroit Historical Society and other nonprofit groups.

Helen Ginsburg Forman
2006 - Left a $5.1 million bequest to the Rhode Island College, Providence, RI. A retired special education teacher and private investor, Ms. Forman made her bequest to benefit scholarships for dance, music and theater students and to support an endowment for a music series and the college's library. She died in 2005 at the age of 93.

Pauline Foster
2006 - Donated $5 million to endow a professorship at the Rady School of Management, University of California at San Diego. Part of the gift will fund a new building. Ms. Foster is President of the Foster Investment Group in San Diego.

Evelyn French
2006 - Left a $1.3 million bequest to the Foothill Country Day School, Claremont, CA for endowment. She was a retired first grade teacher at the school who died in 2004.

Marjorie M. Freund
2001 - Ms. Freund of Washington, DC was a retired librarian at the Library of Congress and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. She made a $2.5 million bequest to endow a scholarship fund at Lawrence University, Appleton, WI.

Ruth Freyberger
2002 - Made a $1 million pledge to Kutztown University of Pennsylvania to endow a chair in Pennsylvania German studies. She is a retired professor of art education at Illinois State University.

Adeline R. Friedman
2002 - Left a $1.4 million bequest to the University of La Verne (CA) to support construction at the college. A resident of North Hollywood, CA and former lawyer, she graduated from the university's College of Law in 1979.
2000 - made a $1.2 million bequest to the University of La Verne (CA) for unrestricted use at the College of Law.

Carol Vinkemulder Frobish
2005 - A 1949 graduate of Columbia College (MO), Ms. Frobish donated $3.1 million through a bequest to support scholarships for female students and other needs. She died in 2003. Ms. Frobish was the owner of a Chevron Corporation station in San Clemente, CA.

Gwen Frostic
2002 - Ms. Frostic, writer and publisher/owner of Presscraft Papers, Benzonia, MI donated $13 million to her alma mater, Western Michigan University for support of programs. Ms. Frostic died in 2001.

Carrie Bamberger Fuld
(1864-1944) She and he brother, Louis Bamberger, gave $8 million to create the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, where Albert Einstein was the first professor.

Margaret F. Galbraith
2006 - Left a bequest of $12 million to the Inland Northwest Community Foundation, Spokane, WA to create a fund benefiting six counties in northern Idaho. The Fund will generate grants to support children and youth, economic development, education, environmental conservation and recreational facilities. Ms. Galbraith died in 2005 at the age of 89. She had inherited money from her father, a mining and utilities industry magnate.

Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio
2002 - Ms. Gallucci-Cirio donated $1 million to Fitchburg State College (MA) for programs in Western history and Italian language and culture. She is a 1938 graduate of the college and a retired teacher whose late husband was a real-estate businessman.

Lillian Garner
2007 - Ms. Garner donated $38 million through a bequest from her estate to the Jewish Home and Care Center Foundation, Milwaukee, WI to support medical care for residents who lack family members or money. Her family founded the Northwestern Weiss Woodwork Corporation in Milwaukee and the Phoenix furniture Corporation in Sheboygan, WI. She also donated furniture, paintings and other items to the home. A resident of La Jolla, CA, Mrs. Garner died in July 2007 at the age of 95.

Mary Elizabeth Garrett
(1854-1915) A large gift to found the Johns Hopkins Medical School in Maryland on the condition that it admit women

Ann Nields Garstin
2000 - Mrs. Garstin met her husband on a 1929 study-abroad trip sponsored by the University of Delaware and bequeathed $10 million to that institution for scholarships. Mrs. Garstin's husband, Geoffrey, a retired executive at E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company, died in 1976. Mrs. Garstin died in 1999. She left no stipulations on who may receive the scholarships.

Audrey S. Geisel
2007 - Ms. Geisel made a $2 million pledge to the Zoological Society of San Diego to build a walkway in the zoo's new Elephant Odyssey exhibit complex. She also donated $1 million to the University of California - San Diego (La Jolla). She is the widow of Theodor Geisel, the children's author known as “Dr. Seuss.” The gift will endow a librarian's position. Ms. Geisel is president of the Dr. Seuss Foundation and of Dr. Seuss Enterprises, both in La Jolla, CA.

Ms. Geisel's other donations include:

2001 - $1 million to the La Jolla Playhouse (CA) to build two rehearsal rooms

Virginia Gilder
$2 million for students at Giffen Elementary School in Albany, NY to attend private schools if they so choose.

Virginia L. Gladding
2003 - Donated $1.4 million through her estate to Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, to support scholarships for female undergraduate and graduate students.

Evelyn Grollman Glick
2000 - A professional golfer and resident of Baltimore, she left $1.6 million for the University of Maryland at Baltimore School of Pharmacy and School of Medicine.

Sherry Gold
2006 - Donated $1 million to the Albany Law School, Law Clinic and Justice Center, New York to endow a program that serves poor clients and chronic illnesses and provides training on legal rights. Ms. Gol's husband, Barry A. Gols, was a 1970 graduate of the law school and a partner at Thuillex, Ford Gold Johnson & Butler, Albany. He died in 2002.

Rachel Mirsky Golding
Her $40 million estate to Yeshiva University, the largest gift in the University's 107-year history and believed to be the largest one-time gift to higher education under Jewish auspices, according to university officials.

Susan Gottlieb
2006 - Ms. Gottlieb made a gift of approximately $1 million to the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association to expand and renovate its facilities. She is president of Greenview, a Los Angeles real estate management company.

Helen Gowan
2002 - Gave $10.2 million through her estate for support of programs to the University of Rochester.

Charlotte G. Gragnani
2005 - Left a $9.6 million bequest to Georgetown University, Washington, DC for cancer research and a new laboratory facility at its Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. Ms. Gragnani, who died in 2004, was originally from Lanham, MD where she worked as a medical secretary. Her late husband, Francis L. Gragnani, started a Coca-Cola bottling franchise in Japan.

Katharine Graham
2005 - Former publisher of The Washington Post , Ms. Graham left a $5.5 million bequest to the University of Chicago. The majority of the gifts - $4 million - will be used for a program to attract and support faculty members in the liberal arts. The remainder will support a residence hall and other needs. Ms. Graham, who died in 2001, was a 1938 graduate of the university and a member of its Board of Trustees.

Elizabeth Stuart James Grant
2001 - Folllowing her death in 1990, Mrs. Grant donated $1.5 million through her trust to the Averett College (Danville, VA) for technological improvements, to train faculty members to use technology, and to create the Institute for Learning and Research. She owned the Danville Register and the Danville Bee, now the Danville Register and Bee.

Elizabeth Berry Gray
2000 - She endowed the Elizabeth Berry Gray Endowed Chair of Surgery at the School of Medicine, Wright State University, OH for $2 million. She is the daughter of Loren M. Berry, who founded the Berry Company, which developed the "yellow pages."

Meg Greenfield
2000 - A former editorial-page editor for the Washington Post, Meg Greenfield's bequest provides $2,900,000 to the University of Washington for the classics department. Ms. Greenfield, who died of lung cancer in May 1999, had a deep interest in classics and had been donating scholarship money to UW's classics department for years. The bequest comprises a $1.75 million scholarship/fellowship endowment, Ms. Greenfield's summer home on Bainbridge Island, WA, and a $500,000 endowment to maintain the home.

Esther Boyer Griswold
2001 - Made an unrestricted bequest of $6.5 million to American International College.

Helen V. Groot
1996 - $1.2 million to the Fort Wayne Community Foundation (IN) to create a scholarship fund for Fort Wayne High seniors who can't afford to attend college from this woman who had lived "a modest, frugal life."

Lorene Potchernick Haddow
2000 - A resident of San Antonio, TX, she made a bequest of $1 million to Texas Lutheran University for unrestricted use. Her family owned a sporting-goods store.

Stacey Halpern
2005 - Made a $70 million pledge to the Cleveland Clinic with her mother Sydell Miller and sister Lauren Spilman, for a new cardiac center. Ms. Spilman's parents founded Matrix Essentials located in Solon, OH. Her father, Arnold, died in 1992. The firm manufactures hair and beauty products.

Dorrance H. Hamilton
2006 - Pledged $25 million to Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia for a new building to house academic programs in medicine, nursing and physical and occupational therapy. Part of the pledge, $5 million, was paid in 2005. The remainder will be paid at $5 million a year for the next four years. A trustee of the university, Ms. Hamilton is the granddaughter of John T. Dorrance, a chemist who invented condensed soup for the Campbell Soup Company in 1897.

Nancy Hamon
2006 - Ms. Hamon donated $10 million to Presbyterian Healthcare System, Dallas, TX to support its expansion project including a new intensive care unit, parking facilities, technology and other additions to the six hospitals. She had previously donated $3 million to the same hospital in 2002 for new MRI technology. She is the wife of the late Jake Hamon, founder of Hamon Oil Company in Dallas. Both Ms. Hamon and her late husband were treated at the hospital.

2005 - Donated $1.5 million to establish the George N. Peters Center for Breast Surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. Ms. Hamon made the pledge, a challenge gift, in honor of Dr. Peters, who was once her doctor. Her late husband, Jake, founded Hamon Oil Company in Dallas.

2004 - Donated $1 million to the University of Texas at Dallas to endow a chair in aesthetic studies. She is the wife of the late Jake Hamon, found of Hamon Oil Company, Dallas.

Ellen M. Hancock
2000 - Made a $5 million pledge to Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY to establish the Hancock Center for Emerging Technologies where students will learn about and experiment with new forms of information technology. She is a trustee of the college and chair of Exodus Communications of Santa Clara, CA, a company that provides Internet services.

Elizabeth Handley
2005 - A $2.6 million bequest from Ms. Handley of Carmel, CA, went to the Viewpoint School, Calabasas, CA to augment the Joseph and Elizabeth Handley Endowment of American Historical Studies. Ms. Handley, who died in 2004, had inherited the bulk of the money.

Mary L. Harding
2003 - Made a bequest of approximately $2 million to the Children's Medical Center in Dallas to benefit indigent patients. She was a professor emeritus at Southern Methodist University School of Law (Dallas).

Hilda Hardy
2001 - Mrs. Hardy made an unrestricted $7.5 million gift through her bequest to Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. Her husband, Robert C. Hardy, graduated from the college in 1925.

Iva M. Hargett
2001 - A $1.2 million bequest from Iva M. Hargett of Hamilton, MT will establish the Friends of the Hamilton Schools Foundation (MT) to provide college scholarships to students who attend Hamilton High School.

Anna M. Richardson Harkness
(1837-1926) After her husband's death when she was 51 years old, she gave $3 million to Yale University (1917) for dormitories, plus another $3 million in 1920 to raise faculty salaries. The second gift was made anonymously and as a challenge to the university to raise an additional $2 million on its own.

She also created The Commonwealth Fund in 1928 with $20 million. Anna Harkness made gifts to Hampton and Tuskegee Institutes, the New York Public Library, the Museum of Natural History in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Zoological Society and Columbia Physicians and Surgeons medical school.

Sybil B. Harrington
2001 - Through her estate gave $30 million to the University of Texas at Austin for an international fellowship program.

Virginia B. Hartridge
2001 - Dr. Hartridge, who was a physician at the Mayo Clinic, made a $1.1 million bequest to support education, music and other programs at the Rochester Area Foundation (MN).

Lillian Hirst Harvey
2005 - Ms. Harvey donated $2.8 million to the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Boston. The gift, which came from investments, will establish an endowment fund and will be used for general support.

Louisine Waldron Elder Havemeyer
(1855-1929) Gifts to the Metropolitan Museum of Art; helped found the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage in 1913 (later known as the National Women's Party)

Mariam Cannon Hayes
2001 - Donated $10 million to Appalachian State University to endow the School of Music, which will be named for her. Mrs. Hayes' family owned Cannon Mills, a textile company in Kannapolis, NC.

Florence Haynes
2005 - Ms. Haynes of West Medford, MA, left a $1 million bequest to the Bangor Theological Seminary (ME). The funds will be used to expand the student scholarship program at the seminary, which also has a campus in Portland, ME. Ms. Haynes worked at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

Martha Ann Dumke Healy
2006 - Made a $2 million pledge to Weber State University, Ogden, UT to support a premedical program. She is a granddaughter and heir of the late E.O. Wattis, a Utah industrialist.

Phoebe Apperson Hearst
(1842-1919) Co-founder of the National Congress of Mothers (later the National Congress of Parents and Teachers); many gifts to the University of California at Berkeley.

Teresa Heinz
Many gifts, including to the Yale University Art Gallery in memory of her late husband, Senator John Heinz, a Yale alumnus. In 1995 she made a $36 million grant to fund the Heinz Awards annually to five individuals who excel in five areas which were important to her late husband.

Marian Heiskell
2005 - Along with her sisters Ruth Holmbert and Judith Sulzberger, Ms. Heiskell donated $4 million to the City University of New York for student scholarships in its new graduate school of journalism. The donors are sisters of Arthur O. Sulzberger, the retired publisher of The New York Times, and are making the gift in his honor. They also donated $4 million to Columbia University in New York City to establish a program that will provide advanced management training to executives of news organizations.

Leona Helmsley
2007 - Ms. Helmsley, head of the Helmsley Hotel Chain, died in August 2007, leaving much of her estate - worth billions - to a charitable trust. The estate is estimated at between $4 billion and $8 billion. She did not name any non-profit groups or specific causes as beneficiaries. During her lifetime, her major contributions included $70 million to New York Presbyterian Hospital and $5 million to the American Red Cross to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Mary Porter Tileston Hemenway
(1820-1894) Boston Normal School of Gymnastics, Tileston Normal School (Wilmington, NC) and aided the work of the Hampton and Tuskegee Institutes

Katherine A. Herberger
2000 - Arizona State University's College of Fine Arts has received a $12 million gift from arts supporter and philanthropist Katherine A. Herberger - the largest personal contribution given in the school's history. Half of Ms. Herberger's gift will fund fellowships, scholarships, and summer research and arts programs, while the rest of the gift will support two faculty positions and partnerships with other community arts and education programs. In recognition of the gift, the College will bear Ms. Herberger's name.

Ada Little Herrmann
2001 - Brenau University, Gainesville, GA received a $2.5 million bequest from the estate of Ada Little Herrmann of Richmond, VA an alumna of the university, to endow a scholarship fund she created before her death.

Jean Jessop Hervey
2000 - Jean Jessop Hervey bequeathed $80 million to the San Diego Foundation. She attached no stipulations to the gift. Her late husband, James Edgar Hervey, a lawyer, had established a trust with the money he made as one of the original investors in Price Club. Shortly after his death, the business was purchased and the value of the investment soared. The Foundation made its first grant from the donation: $5-million for a new library in Point Loma to replace the one where Mrs. Hervey used to spend every Tuesday night reading with her children.

Susan Hetherington
2005 - Pledged $2 million for unrestricted support to Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore) for the Department of Population and Family Health Sciences at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. A resident of Tucson, Ms. Hetherington is a retired professor who taught at the University of Maryland Graduate School of Nursing and School of Medicine. She earned a master's degree from John's Hopkins in 1965 and a Ph.D. in 1974.

Fern M. Hettelhausen
2001 - A resident of Belleville, IL, Mrs. Hettelhausen donated $5.3 million to McKendree College in Lebanon, IN to help build a performing arts center. The gift is in honor of her late husband, Russel, who was a businessman.

Gertrude Hotchkiss Heyn
2006 - A resident of Connecticut, Ms. Heyn made a $4.9 million bequest to the American Foundation for the Blind (New York) for endowment. Her father was the inventor of the Hotchkiss stapler.

Helen Hoag
2005 - Donated $3 million to Chapman University, Orange, CA to establish the Hoag Center for Real Estate and Finance. The gift honors Ms. Hoag's late husband, C. Larry Hoag, who was a businessman from Downney, CA.

Marjorie E. Hobbis
2001 - A $5.7 million bequest from Mrs. Hobbis, of Rancho Santa Fe, CA went to the Braille Institute, Los Angeles for operating costs and programs at its San Diego location. Mrs. Hobbis was a stock market investor whose late husband, Charles, was legally blind and used the talking-book service at the institute's San Diego center. Mrs. Hobbis made two other $5.7 million bequests to the Shriners Hospital for Children in Honolulu, HI and to Unity School of Christianity, Unity Village, MO.

Judith Rosenberg Hoffberger
2007 - A Colorado restaurateur, Ms. Hoffberger has made a pledge of $1 million to her alma mater, Bennington College (VT). Her pledge will support science programs and a collaborative project with the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego. Ms. Hoffberger inherited her money.

Adelyn Hoffman
2007 - Ms. Hoffman donated $5 million to Southwestern Medical Foundation (Dallas) to support genetic and epidemiology research at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. She is the widow of Edmund Hoffman, former co-chairman of Coca-Cola Bottling Group (Southwest) in Dallas.

Ruth Holmbert
2005 - Along with her sisters Marian Heiskell and Judith Sulzberger, Ms. Holmbert donated $4 million to the City University of New York for scholarships for students attending its new graduate school of journalism. The donors are sisters of Arthur O. Sulzberger, the retired publisher of The New York Times, and are making the gift in his honor. They also donated $4 million to Columbia University in New York City to establish a program that will provide advanced management training to executives of news organizations.

Winifred Holt
(1870-1945) Co-founder of the New York Association for the Blind and many gifts to the National Institute of Social Sciences

Miriam U. Hoover
2005 - A resident of Glencoe, IL, Ms. Hoover donated $1 million to the capital campaign of the Center on Halsted, Chicago, IL. The organization is a resource center for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. She is the widow of H. Earl Hoover, who started the Hoover Company's engineering department and served as the company's chairman.

Dolores Hope
2007 - Donated $1 million to the LPGA Foundation (Daytona Beach, FL) to support a fund that provides assistance to needy members of the Ladies' Professional Golf Association and others in the golf industry. She is the widow of comedian Bob Hope who died in 2003.

Martha A. Horvath
2007 - Made a $1.2 million bequest to Saint Joseph Academy (Cleveland, OH) to endow scholarships. Her father owned a cleaning-supply company.

Maisie Houghton and Jamie Houghton
1997 - $1.25 million to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University to endow a fund for women and leadership programs for undergraduates

Helena Gabriel Houston
2001 - At the age of 96, this former elementary school teacher from Charlotte, NC has established a scholarship fund for education students at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her gift was made through a $1.3 million pledge.

Lillian Lincoln Howell
2005 - Donated $10 million to Pomona College, Claremont, CA to construct two academic buildings that will house programs in several disciplines. Ms. Howell graduated from Pomona in 1943. She owns the Lincoln Broadcasting Company in Brisbane, CA.

Janice Bryant Howroyd
2005 - Pledged $10 million to the University of Southern California in Los Angeles to support student aid programs. A member of the university's College Board of Councilors, Ms. Howroyd is owner and chief executive officer of ACT-1, a personnel-services company in Torrance, CA.

Marcia L. Hubbard
2002 - A resident of New York, her $4 million bequest went to Lancaster Country Day School (PA), for endowment. She was an alumna of the school.

Allene Hubler
2007 - Left a $4 million bequest to Baylor University to endow a chair, a professorship and scholarships in the university's ministry-guidance program. Ms. Hubler died in May at the age of 98. Her late husband, Raymond, was an electrical engineer.

Virginia Waddell Hudgins
2001 - Gave over $1.5 million from her estate to Peace College for support of programs.

2000 - A resident of Louisburg, NC who died in 1999 at age 93, her $1.5 million bequest went to Louisburg College. The bequest will go for endowment, building renovations and Learning Partners, a tutorial program for students with learning disabilities.

Voncile Bowen Huffman
2004 - Made a bequest of approximately $2 million to Central Missouri State University (Warrensburg) for scholarships.

Marie Hulbert
2006 - Donated $1 million through a bequest to Augusta State University, GA to endow academic programs. She was a retired high school biology teacher from Maine who died in 2005.

Swanee Hunt and Merle Chambers
Created "Colorado's Million Dollar Day" to fund the 1992 Clinton-Gore presidential campaign

Priscilla Payne Hurd
2005 - Donated $1.5 million to Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA to establish an endowment for student-faculty research. She is chair of the college's board of trustees.

Mary Hutto
2001 - Through her estate, Ms. Hutto donated $3.5 million for scholarships to Western Kentucky University.

Dora Donner Ide
2000 - A San Francisco woman who died in December 1998 at the age of 82, has left more than $111 million to two dozen local and national charities. According to nonprofit experts, the bequest is an early example of the kind of gift that will become increasingly common as the aging World War II generation bequeaths trillions of dollars of accumulated wealth to its heirs and society. Ms. Ide's father, William H. Donner, a steel company executive and associate of Andrew Carnegie, believed strongly in philanthropy in the tradition of the Carnegie family. The bulk of the estate went to 29 charities, including 15 Bay area groups. Ms. Ide stipulated that her gifts be earmarked for endowments, and that the organizations on the receiving end should already have an endowment at least twice the size of her donation. If they didn't meet these criteria, the money would be held by the San Francisco Foundation until the organization could meet the requirement. The gift was described as "sophisticated" by San Francisco Foundation CEO Sandra Hernandez, who added, "She understood that if you give an endowment and they don't know how to manage money it's not a good gift."

Barbara Barrow Jacobs
2006 - Mrs. Jacobs, who died in November 2006, donated $40.6 million to Indiana University in Bloomington for its School of Music. The School will be named in honor of her late husband, David H. Jacobs, an owner of the Cleveland Indians baseball team and a developer of shopping centers who died in 1992. Nearly half the gift will endow fellowships for graduate students. Another $10 million will endow undergraduate scholarships and the rest will endow faculty positions and pay for programs at the School of Music. Mrs. Jacobs and her husband were both 1948 graduates of the University. However, the gift was prompted by a request from Ms. Jacobs' grandson, David Jacobs, Jr., a graduate of the music school during the 1970s. He had attended a rehearsal of the Cleveland Orchestra only to discover that the orchestra had forgotten most of its musical scores. When he told his father about the predicament, the elder Mr. Jacobs at his son's request flew the missing music to the University in his private jet. Years later, when asked what he would like for his birthday, the younger Mr. Jacobs suggested naming the School of Music after his father, to honor his generous gesture that day.

Maurice Jameson
2005- A resident of Dallas, Ms. Jameson made a $1.23 million bequest to endow research of scleroderma and macular degeneration at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Foundation (Dallas). Her husband was William S. Jameson, an oil lawyer who died in 1998.

Mary Jarvis
2006 - Ms. Jarvis, who died in 2004, made a $4.3 million bequest to the Kansas State University Foundation (Manhattan, KS) to expand the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art at Kansas State University. Ms. Jarvis was a 1942 graduate of the university and was the first woman recipient of a bachelor's degree in landscape architecture.

Anna Thomas Jeanes
(1822-1907) From a Philadelphia Quaker family, she supported pioneering work to improve rural elementary schools for both black and white children in the southern U.S. (Negro Rural School Fund) as well as the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends

Eleanor Nicols Jernigan
2000 - A zoologist, physical therapist, and investor, she bequeathed $10 million to the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression in Great Neck, NY for endowment. Ms. Hernigan, who died in March 2000, assisted the geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan during the 1930s in his Nobel Prize-winning work on the fruit fly.

Susie Frum Jimison
2005 - Ms. Jimison, a music and voice teacher from Huntington, WVA made a $2 million bequest to West Virginia University (Morgantown) for research on Alzheimer's disease at the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute.

Ann Cobb Johnson
2004 - A resident of Spartanburg, SC, Ms. Johnson donated $2.5 million to endow a chair in the humanities and literature at Wofford College, located in Spartanburg.

Jeanne Roach Johnson
2004 - A private investor in Dallas, TX, Ms. Johnson donated $1 million to Southern Methodist University (Dallas) to endow the piano program in the Meadow School of the Arts.

Phyllis Berical Johnson
2004 - A resident of Manhattan Beach, CA, Ms. Johnson made a $1 million bequest for a scholarship fund at Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA.

Sheila C. Johnson
2007 - Donated $5 million as a partial challenge grant to CARE in Atlanta, GA as a challenge gift. She is the co-founder of Black Entertainment Television in Washington, DC. Her gift is designated for a campaign to raise awareness and support for poor women worldwide. The bulk of the donation will go to match donations by other supporters over the next two years. The remaining $1 million will go toward marketing efforts for the campaign.
2006 - Ms. Johnson pledged $5 million to the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA) to establish a center for Human services at its Curry School of Education.
2005 - Ms. Johnson donated $1 million to the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation (Springfield, NJ) for its research programs.
2003 - Donated $7 million to the New School University, Parsons School of Design (New York) to create a new design center. Ms. Johnson is a member school's Board of Governors.

Angelina Jolie
2003 - The actress made a $5 million pledge over 15 years to the Cambodian Vision in Development (Battambang, Cambodia) to help amputees and veterans of Cambodia's civil war and to set up a wildlife sanctuary in the region formerly controlled by the Khmer Rouge.

Gayden R. (Sissy) Jones
2007 - Donated $1 million to the Montreat Conference Center (NC) to endow a fund to protect and manage wilderness areas surrounding the center.

Winifred Hughes Jones
2002 -Ms. Jones made a $1.2 million bequest to the University of North Dakota Foundation (Grand Forks) for an endowment. An alumna of the university, she managed real estate holdings.

Kelly Karnes
2006 - Donated $1 million to Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN) to build a new archives and special collections library. She graduated from the university in 1935 with a degree in costume and interior design. She is the wife of the late William G. Karnes, president of the former Beatrice Foods Company in Chicago.

Ellen Philips Katz
2005 - Donated $1 million to Northwestern University, Evanston, IL to endow the directorship of the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art. A university trustee, she also serves on the board of the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City as well as other organizations.

Gail Veasman Kellogg
2001 - Gave $1 million for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Edna Kelly
2006 - A retired antiques dealer in Centerville, OH, Ms. Kelly donated artworks valued at $1.6 million to the art museum at Miami University (Ohio).

Hazel Kelly
2006 - Ms. Kelly, who died in 2005, made a $1.35 million bequest to Old Capitol Foundation, Vandalia IL to construct a campus in Vandalia of Kaskaskia College (Centralia, IL). She was a resident of Vandalia, IL.

Sarah Law Kennerly
2004 - A former faculty member at the university's School of Library and Information Sciences, Ms. Kennerly left a bequest of $42.25 million to the University of North Texas (Denton). The bequest will create up to six professorships for faculty members at the library school. Ms. Kennerly died in 2002.

Dorothy Ketman
2005 - Made a $2 million bequest to the University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA to establish a scholarship fund. She was a 1920 graduate of the University. A resident of Greenbrae, CA, Ms. Ketman died in January 2005.

Ruth L. Kilton
2004 - A resident of Warwick, RI, Mrs. Kilton made a $17 million bequest to the Rhode Island Foundation in Providence for an endowment to benefit children, elderly people and animals in that state. Mrs. Kilton, who died in 2004 at the age of 96, had worked at Amica Insurance in Littleton, RI and at the US Gutta Percha Paint Company, in Providence.

Wanda T. King
2002 - Ms. King donated $1.3 million to Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore) to endow a fund for pediatric endocrinology.

Ann Kirkwood
2007 - Bequeathed $3.3 million to the University of Nevada at Reno to endow scholarships for nursing students. Ms. Kirkwood died in 2006 at the age of 85. She studied at the university from 1939-41.

Jeanette Ackerman Klarenmeyer
2004 - Donated $6,738,242 through a bequest to the Jewish Home and Hospital Lifecare System, New York, for endowment.

Dorothy G. Klasen
2004 - Made a bequest of $3.3 million to the Greater Cincinnati Foundation to establish two unrestricted funds. Mrs. Klasen, an employee of the Internal Revenue Service, died at the age of 89 in 2003.

Lois Klawon
2006 - Ms. Klawon, who died in 2005, donated $10 million to Miami University in Oxford, OH for student scholarships. A resident of Cleveland, Ms. Klawon was a 1939 graduate of the university.

Helen Way Klinger
2004 - Marquette University received $18 million from the estate of Mrs. Klinger, daughter of Sylvester B. Way.

Cynthia Knight
2006 - Donated $3.5 million to the Zoological Society of Florida, Miami, FL. The gift will support the new Tropical America exhibit at the Miami Metrozoo. A racehorse breeder in Miami and Ohio, she is the owner and president of Landon Knight Stable.

Marion Knott
2006 - A resident of Newport Beach, CA, Ms. Knott donated $3 million to Chapman University in Orange, CA for a new building to house the College of Film and Media Arts. The Knott family founded Knott's Berry Farm, a popular amusement park located in Buena Vista, CA.

2001 - Gave $2.5 million to Chapman University for support of programs.

Nancy Welch Knowles
2007 - Ms. Knowles made a $10 million unrestricted pledge to the Lyric Opera of Chicago. She is the chairman emeritus of Knowles Electronics, a manufacturing company in Chicago. The opera company will receive the gift upon Ms. Knowles/s death, and will use the money for general operating support. Ms. Knowles is a member of the opera's Board of Directors, and is also president of the Knowles Foundation, in Chicago.

Gisela Kolb
2000 - A $1 million bequest from the estate of Gisela Kolb of Louisville, KY, a professor of psychiatry, went to create the Gottfried and Gisela Kolb Endowed Chair in the Department of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine, University of Louisville, KY.

Maxine Bateman Kolb
2005 - Ms. Kolb left a $3 million bequest to Tri-State University in Angola, IN. The bulk of the gift will be used for endowment. Ms. Kolb is the wife of a former president of the University, Richard M. Bateman.

Beatrice Kornblum
2000 - A retired schoolteacher and resident of St. Louis, Ms. Kornblum's gift of $5 million established the Institute for Teaching Excellence at the School of Education, Webster University, MO.

Vera Bluemner Kouba
2000 - Through sale of an art collection as part of her estate, Ms. Kouba left $2.6 million to Stetson University for programs in art and art history.

Marion Kremen
2001 - Mrs. Kremen's trust, worth over $3 million, and a pledge of $500,000 over five years went to the California State University at Fresno for a doctoral program in education and other graduate programs. The gifts honor her late husband, Benjamin, who was an education professor at the university. She was a former elementary school teacher and principal.

Joan Kroc
2004 - Mrs. Kroc donated $1 million through a bequest to the Helen Woodward Animal Center (Rancho Santa Fe, CA).

2003 - Mrs. Kroc of Rancho Santa Fe, CA was the widow of Ray A. Kroc, the founder of McDonald's Corporation. Following her death in October, 2003 it was announced that she had made a $1.5 billion bequest to the Salvation Army for Community Centers. The gift will be divided into four equal amounts and distributed to the four geographic territories that comprise The Salvation Army in the United States. She also made a $10 million bequest to the San Diego Opera for its production fund which supports artistic programming. She also made large bequests to National Public Radio in Washington; the University of Notre Dame; and the University of Sand Diego. In addition KPBS, a public radio station in San Diego, received $5 million for its endowment from Ms. Kroc.

Ms. Kroc also contributed to the following organizations (not a comprehensive list):

· $60 million to Ronald McDonald Children's Charities in honor of her late husband, Ray A. Kroc, the founder of McDonald's Corporation. It is the largest single gift the charity has ever received.

· $25 million in 1998 to the University of San Diego to establish the Mohandas Ghandi Institute of Peace and Justice

· $18.5 million to the San Diego Hospice

· $15 million to the citizens of Grand Forks, North Dakota for recovery efforts after the disastrous spring 1997 flood

· $6 million to the University of Notre Dame (Indiana) to create the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies

$5 million in 2003 for an endowed lecture series at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego

· $3 million to the University of San Diego for student loans

· $1 million to the Betty Ford Center for the treatment of alcoholism

· $1 million to the San Diego Opera

· $1 million to the Special Olympics

· many gifts to the St. Vincent de Paul Village, which provides assistance and training for homeless people

Ann Lacy
2003 - Donated $1 million to Oklahoma City University for capital improvements. Mrs. Lacy is a stock market investor whose husband, James Alexander, is dean emeritus of the business school at OCU.

2001 - Mrs. Lacy donated $12 million through a charitable remainder annuity to Oklahoma City University for unrestricted use.

Kate Macy Ladd
(1863-1945) Created the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation.

Verona Joyner Langford
2001 - A resident of Farmville, NC who died in 2000, Verona Langford made a $5.5 million bequest to endow the library at East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.

Gladys E. Langroise
2000 - Mrs. Langroise, who died in 2000 at the age of 99, had earmarked half of the proceeds from her fund at the Idaho Community Foundation for health, education and child welfare organizations. Special consideration was to be given for four groups - Albertson College in Caldwell, ID; the Boise Philharmonic; St. Labre Indian School in Ashland, MT; and the Warm Springs Counseling Center in Boise. A committee of advisors chosen by the donor will choose the recipients of the remaining proceeds. Mrs. Langroise's husband, William H. Langroise, was a lawyer and investor, who died in 1981 at the age of 82.

Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence
2005 - Ms. Lawrence, who died in February 2005, left a $2 million bequest to the Parsons School of Design in New York. The gift will endow the Lawrence Scholars Program, named for Ms. Lawrence's late husband, the artist Jacob Lawrence. The program will provide training in art and design for low-income high-school students from the Harlem neighborhood where Mr. Lawrence was raised.

Barbara Lee
2006 - A resident of Cambridge, MA, Ms. Lee donated $1.5 million to the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Her gift will endow the Women in U.S. Politics Training Program and Lecture Series. She had established the program in 2004 with a grant of $40,000 from her foundation. Ms. Lee helped produce the �Governor's Guidebooks Series.� She is the former wife of Thomas Lee, a businessman who specialized in high profile leveraged buyouts.

Joan B. Leech
2001 - Mrs. Leech, of Neenah, WI made a $2.5 million bequest to the Community Foundation of the Fox Valley Region, Appleton, WI to create a fund to support nonprofit groups in Wisconsin. Her late husband, Fred, owned the Universal Paper Company.

Ruth Ann Leever
2000 - A resident of Waterbury, CT, Mrs. Leever gave $1 million to the Naugatuck Valley Community Technical College (CT) for renovation of the Mainstage Auditorium. Her husband, Harold, is chairman emeritus of the chemical company, MacDermid Inc.

Madelyn M. Levitt
$5.5 million to Drake University
As National Chair of The Campaign for Drake (1989-94), which raised $130 million, she was the first woman in the U.S. to chair a successful campaign of $100 million or more for a coeducational college or university. She has won numerous awards, including the NSFRE Volunteer Fundraiser of the Year Award and Outstanding Individual Philanthropist Award.

Dorsey S. Lewis
2001 - A resident of Cathlamet, WA, Ms. Lewis was a stock market investor and former data processor who died in 1998. She made an unrestricted $2.4 million bequest to the Fort Vancouver Regional Library Foundation, WA.

Francis Aicher Lewis
2003 - A $1.1 million bequest from Mrs. Lewis will establish a chair in Animal Sciences and industry and an endowment for Animal Research and education at Kansas State University Foundation (Manhattan, KS). Ms. Lewis was an alumna and former trustee of the foundation and a partner at Alfalfa Lawn Farms, a purebred Hereford business in Larned, KS.

Katherine R. (Kaye) Lillehei
2000 - Mrs. Lillehei gave a $16 million charitable lead trust to the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities medical school in the Lillehei family's name to commemorate the work of her late husband. C. Walton Lillehei was a professor of heart surgery at the university and director of medical affairs at St. Jude Medical Incorporated, manufacturer of medical devices in Minneapolis. Dr. Lillehei was also an inventor of the heart pacemaker. After her husband's death from cancer in 1999 at the age of 80, Mrs. Lillehei designated $13 million of the gift to establish the Lillehei Heart Institute and another $3 million to endow the Katherine R. and C. Walton Lillehei Chair in Nursing Leadership.

Frances Norick Lilly and Marjorie J. Norick
2002 - A $2 million pledge from Marjorie Norick and her late sister, Frances Lilly of Oklahoma City will go to Oklahoma City University to establish an arts scholarship fund and a fund to help construct and maintain an arts center. Their family owned a printing company in Oklahoma City.

Ruth Lilly
2007 - Ms. Lily donated $2.2 million to the Indianapolis Museum of Art to endow the director of horticulture's position. Her great-grandfather founded Eli Lily and Company. With this gift, she has given a total of $26.4 million to the museum.

2002 - Ms. Lilly, 87-year-old heir to the Eli Lilly pharmaceutical fortune, has created estate plans that provide an estimated half-billion dollars for Indiana nonprofit groups and several arts organizations. She made a pledge expected to total $100-million over 30 years to the Modern Poetry Association in Chicago. The Association publishes Poetry magazine. Since much of the gift is being made in Lilly company stock, its value will depend on how the company's shares fare over the next three decades. Ms. Lilly set up two remainder trusts, one of which will be paid upon her death, and three charitable lead trusts that provide annual payments to the organization starting in 2003. Ms. Lilly's gift was unrestricted; the Association said the money would be used to ensure that the magazine will be published for decades to come, to support the Association's national education programs, and to lease or purchase new offices for the Association.

Ms. Lilly also has made plans to donate to Americans for the Arts, a group in Washington, DC that promotes the arts and arts education nationwide. In addition, Ms. Lilly provided $200-million to create the Ruth Lilly Philanthropic Foundation to support nonprofit programs in Indiana. Over the past 30 years, Ms. Lilly has given more than $25 million to higher education institutions, libraries, health programs and other nonprofit groups throughout Indiana, including the University of Indiana and the Honor Society of Nursing in Indiana.

Lucille Caudill Little
2001 - Mrs. Little of Lexington KY donated $1 million to the University of Kentucky Lexington, KY to establish a fund that will help the university's fine arts library purchase books and other research materials. Her late husband was a farmer and raised thoroughbred horses.

Jeannik Mequet Littlefield
2006 - Pledged $35 million to the San Francisco Opera. Of the total, $2 million per year will go toward general operating costs and $5 million will augment the endowment. The gift appears to be the largest ever given to an opera company in the United States and is a mix of stocks and cash to be paid over five years. A member of the opera's Board of Directors for 15 years, Ms. Littlefield has previously contributed millions of dollars to the company. Her passion for opera began during her childhood in Paris. However, her husband did not share her love of the art form until, through a gift from the Littlefields, the San Francisco Opera installed supertitles to translate foreign language operas in its theatre in 1984.

Elisabeth Sloan Livingston
2002 - A resident of Brooklyn, NY, Ms. Livingston made a $3 million bequest to Helen Keller Services for the Blind, Brooklyn, NY for program support. Her late husband, John Holyoke Sloan, was a lawyer.

Sophie Irene Loeb
(1876-1929) Co-founder and first president of the Child Welfare Commission of America, 1924

Katherine Bogdanovich Loker
Has contributed to the following organizations:

· $17 million in 1998 to Harvard University for renovations of Widener Library

· $17 million in 1998 to the University of Southern California - her alma mater - for the construction of a new track stadium and to support hydrocarbon research at the Loker Hydrocarbon Institute, named in honor of her earlier major gifts to support the work of Nobel Laureate George A. Olah.

· $10 million in 1996 to Harvard University for the renovation of the lower level of Memorial Hall. Mrs. Loker's late husband was a Harvard College graduate.

Carolyn Bason Long
2007 - Donated $1 million to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro to endow scholarships and support academic programs. Her late husband, Russell, was a U.S. senator from Louisiana. Mrs. Long graduated for the University of North Carolina in 1943 with a bachelor's degree in secretarial administration.

Marjorie Loos
2000 - A resident of Pittsford, NY, she made a $1.5 million unrestricted bequest to her alma mater, Nazareth College (Rochester, NY). The funds will be used for new academic and athletic programs and the construction and renovation of campus buildings. Her husband was a vice president of Rochester Gas & Electric.

Josephine Shaw Lowell
(1843-1905) First woman member of the New York State Board of Charities, 1875

Ann Lurie
2007 - Ms. Lurie, President of Lurie investments in Chicago and a former pediatric nurse, pledged $100 million to Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Her gift will build a new facility in Chicago's Streeterville neighborhood and will support pediatric-health research. The new hospital will be named for Ms. Lurie and her late husband, Robert. It is expected to cost $850 million, with construction scheduled to begin in spring, 2008 and opening expected by 2012. A mother of six, Ms. Lurie once worked as a critical-care nurse at Children's Memorial Hospital. At Memorial Hospital, she previously endowed a professorship in cancer-cell biology and donated $1.3 million to support the Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS research. She has donated large sums to Northwestern University, including $40 million to create a medical research center and $10 million to endow the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center. She sits on the board of trustees of Northwestern. In 2002 she pledged $15 million to the University of Michigan, her husband's alma mater, to create programs in biomedical engineering and integrated microsystems. She is the president and treasurer of the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Foundation and president of Africa Infectious Disease Village Clinics, a charity she founded in 2002.

2000 - $5 million to create the Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the business school, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
1994 - $12 million to the University of Michigan to establish the Robert H. Lurie Fund in Engineering to honor of her late husband.

Helen M. Lynch
2000 - A retired high school teacher, Ms. Lynch of West Hartford, CT gave $2 million for capital needs to Saint Joseph College, West Hartford.

Christine E. Lynn
2003 - Ms. Lynn, chief executive officer and chairman of the Lynn Insurance Group, Boca Raton, FL donated $5 million to support research programs in paralysis and pelvic trauma at the University of Miami School of Medicine, Coral Gables, FL.

2001 - Ms. Lynn donated $10 million to the Nursing School at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton.

Ellen Malcolm
Founder of Emily's List, a campaign fund raising program for women Democratic candidates

Paula Garvey Manship
2001 - Donated 3 million to the Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge to help build an art museum. Her late husband published The Advocate.

Virginia Cretella Mars
2005 - Ms. Mars, a resident of McLean, VA, donated $1 million to the Wildlife Trust (Palisades, NY) for unrestricted support.

Angela Mason
2006 - A 1980 graduate of Bellarmine University, Louisville, KY, Ms. Mason made a $2 million pledge to endow scholarships for needy students at her alma mater. She is the founder of ITS Services, a technology company in Washington.

Lois W. Mathis
2002 - Ms. Mathis left $1.4 million from her estate to the University of Southern Colorado for scholarships.

Glenda Garrelts Mattes
2007 - A real estate broker from Overland Park, KS, Ms. Mattes made a $1 million pledge to Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS. The gift will endow an award to encourage students to travel internationally. A 1965 alumna of the university, Ms. Mattes earned a bachelor's degree in medical technology.

Beatrice Cummings Mayer
Museum of Contemporary Art In Chicago, 1993
$7.5 million to be used for a 15,000-square-foot Mayer Education Center within the new museum and a 300-seat auditorium. The facilities will be used to explain contemporary art to schoolchildren and museum visitors.

Fern McAlister
2001 - A resident of Los Angeles, Mrs. McAlister bequeathed $38.3 million to Children's Hospital Los Angeles for new research. The gift will establish the McAlister Clinical Research Program, which will bring scholars to the hospital. Mrs. McAlister died in February of 2001 at the age of 93. Her late husband, Harold, left a trust worth $9.8 million to the hospital when he died in 1981 at the age of 86.

Marjorie Carter McCarthy
2006 - A resident of Alleghany County, VA, Mrs. McCarthy was a former high school teacher and organist. She left five bequests of $1.4 million each to the following institutions: The American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA; The American Diabetes Association (Alexandria, VA); The American Heart Association (Dallas, TX) - all for unrestricted use; also to Dabney S. Lancaster Community College Educational Foundation (Clifton Forge, VA) for educational programs and scholarships; and to Washington and Lee University (Lexington, VA) designated for building improvements and scholarships. Mrs. McCarthy's late husband, Lawrence L. McCarthy was a 1929 graduate of Washington and Lee University.

Lois McClure
2006 - Ms. McClure donated $1 million to the Visiting Nurse Association of Chittenden and Grand Isle Counties, Vermont. She is the widow of Warren J. McClure, who owned the Burlington Free Press in Vermont.

Martha McCrory
2006 - Donated $1.5 million to the St. Andrew's Sewanee School, TN to construct a performing arts center. She is the founder and retired director of the Sewanee Summer Music Center.

Margaret McDermott
2000 - Widow of Eugene McDermott, a co founder of Texas Instruments, she gave $32 million to the University of Texas at Dallas to create the Eugene McDermott Scholars Program, which will provide scholarships to 20 outstanding college freshmen each year.

Nan Tucker McEvoy
2001 - A resident of San Francisco and former chairman of the San Francisco Chronicle, Ms. McEvoy made a $10 million gift to the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC. The donation will help renovate the Old Patent Office Building, which houses the museum and the National Portrait Gallery.

Miriam McFadden
2004 - Ms. McFadden, a retired administrator at the Ded Wallace Mental Health Center (Nashville) donated $1.2 million to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her gift will be used to recruit and retain faculty members at the School of Social work, which Ms. McFadden attended.

Cathleen McFarlane-Ross
2001 - Mrs. Ross, a resident of West Palm Beach, FL made a $1 million pledge to Pennsylvania State University (University Park). The gift will fund a professorship and a scholarship fund in materials science and engineering. Her late husband, Norris (Mac) McFarlane, owned the Macalloy Corporation in Charleston, SC.

Edna McLaughlin
2001 - Gave $2.8 million from her estate for scholarships at the Eastman School of Music.

Helen Myers McLoraine
2003 - Ms. McLoraine, a resident of Denver, made a $5 million bequest for the Scott Hamilton Cancer alliance for Research, Education and Survivorship at the Taussig Cancer Center of the Cleveland Clinic. Ms. McLoraine was a private investor in the gas and old industry. Olympic gold medalist Scott Hamilton, who was treated for testicular cancer at the Taussig Center, is among the many figure skaters she had sponsored. Ms. McLoraine died in Dallas at the age of 84 in January, 2003.

Genevieve McMillan
2007 - Ms. McMillan donated $1 million to Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD. The gift will endow a professorship in painting. Ms. McMillan donated the gift in honor of her friend Reba Stewart, a former faculty member at the college.

Carol McMurry, Gayle Kinnison and Susan Samuelson
2000 - These three daughters of Neil McMurry of Casper, WY donated $5 million to the Wyoming Community Foundation for endowment. Neil McMurry founded the McMurry Oil Company.

Ruby Vann Crumpler McSwain
2000 - Ruby Vann Crumpler McSwain of Sanford, NC gave $1.2 million to construct an education center at the J.C. Raulston Arboretum at North Carolina State University.

Gwen McWhorter
2001 - Donated $1 million from her estate to the University of Alabama at Birmingham for a chair in geriatric medicine.

Sheila Megley
2001 - Donated $1.5 million to Regis College for the endowment.

Gwen Avenell Mellinger and Michele Mellinger
2001 - Gwen and Michele Mellinger left $4.6 million from their estates for the support of programs at Houston Baptist University.

Mrs. Paul Mellon
2001 - Donated $1 million from her estate to the Rhode Island School of Design for scholarships and for programs to increase the diversity of the student body.

Janice Mendelson
2006 - Donated $2.2 million to Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, TX to establish an endowment for the International Folk Culture Center. A resident of San Antonio, Ms. Mendelson is a retired Army surgeon.

Pauline Mergenthaler
2001 - A $2.5 million gift from the trust of Mrs. Mergenthaler has gone to Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, MD, for renovations. She died in 1986 at the age of 91. Her father invented the Linotype printing machine.

Shirley A. Meyer
2000 - Donated $1 million to the Monroe County Community College (MI) to endow arts programs. Her father-in-law, August F. Meyer, founded Monroe Auto Equipment Company.

Vivian Davis Michael and Gladys Gwendolyn Davis
2001 - Vivian D. Michael and Gladys G. Davis donated $18.4 million from their estates to West Virginia University, Morgantown, where the two sisters had attended school. Gladys Gwendolyn Davis, who died in January, worked for the federal government in Washington before her return to Morgantown. Vivian Davis Michael, who died in 1998, was a stock market investor and a social studies teacher in Monogalia County, WVA. Of their total donation, $16.2 will go for scholarships, professorships and other programs at the agriculture school. The remainder will support the colleges of law and creative arts and the university's libraries.

Ann Eickenroht Miller
2005 - Ms. Miller left a $1 million bequest to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas). A real estate developer in Texas, she died in 2000. The bequest will be used to establish a scholarship fund in the name of her son, Edmund Eickenroht.

Sydell Miller
2005 - Made a $70 million pledge to the Cleveland Clinic with her two daughters, Lauren Spillman and Stacie Halpern, for a new cardiac center. Ms. Miller has said that her gift was made to show gratitude for care that family members had received. Ms. Miller and her husband Arnold, who died in 1992, founded Matrix Essentials located in Solon, OH. The firm manufactures hair and beauty products.

Marilyn Monter
2006 - Ms. Monter is vice president of the Holiday Organization, a real estate development company located in Westbury, NY. She donated $1 million to Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY for campus improvements and scholarships for students in the Honors College and the School of Law. Ms. Monter is secretary of the University's Board of Trustees and a 1976 alumna of Hofstra Law School.

Gratia (Topsy) Montgomery
Contributed the following gifts:

· $5 million to build a Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull research vessel at the Wood Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2000

· $3 million for a coastal research vessel at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, 2000

· $5 million to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (MA) to endow the Coastal Research Center from this South Dartmouth, MA resident, 1996

Darla Moore
2004 - Ms. Moore pledged $45 million to the University of South Carolina at Columbia for endowed professorships, renovations and scholarships at the school of business. She is executive vice president of Rainwater, an investment company in Fort Worth, TX. She said she would provide $15 million after the university matches that sum with financing from other sources. The university will have to raise the additional $30 million from private sources to get the rest of the gift. Ms. Moore, who grew up in Lake City, SC is a trustee of the university and gave the business School $25 million in 1998.

Kate C. Moore
2003 - A speech pathologist in Massachusetts, Ms. Moore donated $2 million to Planned Parenthood Federation of America New York in the form of an unrestricted charitable trust. She died in June 2002.

Blanche Swift Morris
2001 - A $1.5 million bequest from Ms. Morris of Chicago went to Saint Xavier University, (Chicago) for capital improvements and endowment.

Ann Morse
2007 - Left $6 million from her estate to the University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA) to support study abroad scholarships for needy students. Ms. Morse's late husband, John, was an alumnus of the university and a partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, a New York law firm. He died in 2004 at the age of 94. Ms. Morse died in 2006 at the age of 86.

Shirley Kaufman Morse
2001 - Ms. Morse donated $1.2 million from her estate to Goucher College for scholarships.

Margaret Mosher
2000 - Donated $3 million to Johns Hopkins University to create a center for corneal-disease research at the Wilmer Eye Institute. A resident of Santa Barbara, CA, she is the widow of Samuel B. Mosher, founder of Signal Oil and Gas Company of Los Angeles.

Lady [Anne Radcliffe] Mowlson
1643 - To establish the first scholarship fund at Harvard College

Nancy Baird Mulheren
2004 - A 1972 graduate of the college and a member of the college's Board of Trustees, Ms. Mulheren donated $2.5 million for a new residence hall at Roanoke College, Salem, VA. She is a resident of Rumson, NJ

Patricia L. Naegele
2005 - Ms. Naegele, a resident of Midland, MI donated $3 million to Northwood University, Midland, MI to renovate residence halls and for other projects. Ms. Naegele, who is a member of the university's board of Trustees, is the widow of Robert Naegele, a group vice president and director of Dow Chemical Company. He died in 2000.

Patricia N. Nanon
2006 - Ms. Nanon made a pledge of property valued at $2 million to The Yard, an artists’ residence and performance venue on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, in Massachusetts. She is the founder and artistic director of The Yard (Chilmark, MA).

Evelyn Stefanson Nef
2003 - A psychotherapist and author in Washington DC, Ms. Nef donated $3 million to the Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, MA to promote research and professional development related to psychotherapy.

Wilma Wise Nelson
2000 - A $2 million bequest from the estate of Wilma W. Nelson of Shoreline, WA went to the University of Louisville, KY for unrestricted use.

Josephine Louise LeMonnier Newcomb
(1816-1901) Washington & Lee University, the Confederate Orphans' Home (Charleston, SC) and $100,000 to create H. Sophie Newcomb College of Tulane University in 1887

Myrtis L. Nims (Jeri)
2002 - Donated $10 million to the University of New Orleans to endow 20 scholarships in the art program and to help construct an art gallery.

Jo Bowen Nobbe
2004 - Mrs. Nobbe bequeathed $16 million to the Community Foundation of Sarasota County, in Sarasota, FL where she endowed a fund for scholarships and educational programs. Wife of the late Allen Wirtz Nobbe, a lawyer in Washington, Ms. Nobbe died in January 2004 at age 92.

Marjorie J. Norick and Frances Norick Lilly
2002 - A $2 million pledge from Marjorie Norick and her late sister, Frances Lilly of Oklahoma City will go to Oklahoma City University to establish an arts scholarship fund and a fund to help construct and maintain an arts center. Their family owned a printing company in Oklahoma City.

Betty Moroney Norsworthy
2003 - Through a charitable lead trust, Ms. Norsworthy donated $2 million to the Dallas Zoo to build an otter exhibit. She is the granddaughter of George Bannerman Dealey, who was president of the Dallas Morning News. Ms. Norsworthy died in 2001 at the age of 83.

Katharine M. Norton
2002 - A resident of Rapid City, SD, she made a $1.3 million bequest to the University of South Dakota (Vermillion) to endow a scholarship for undergraduate students from South Dakota. A 1936 graduate of the school, her late husband was a geologist.

2001 - Ms. Norton donated $1.3 million through her estate to the University of South Dakota for scholarships.

Agnes K. O'Donnell and Margaret E. O'Donnell
2000 - Sisters and schoolteachers residing in Northampton, MA, they bequeathed $2.4 million from their estates for endowment to the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts.

Rosie O'Donnell
2001 - A $1 million donation from comedian rosie O'Donnell has gone to the American Red Cross, Washington, DC for the group's disaster-relief fund to aid victims of the New York Trade Center terrorist attacks.

Kathryn O'Keefe
2000 - A 1939 graduate of Hollins University, Roanoke, VA, she donated $1 million to her alma mater to establish the O'Keefe Chair in Communications Studies.

Mary Bryant O'Neal
2001 - A $1.2 million bequest from Mrs. O'Neal went to the Danville Area Community College Foundation (IL) to establish the Mary and Frank O'Neal Library Endowment to support the library of the Danville Area Community College. Mrs. O'Neal died in 2002 at the age of 76. She and her husband owned Woodbury's Book Store in Danville.

Deb Olson
2001 - Ms. Olson donated $1 million to Mount Marty College for religious studies and philosophy.

Pam Omidyar
2006 - Ms. Omidyar donated $1 million to the Friends of the World Food Program (Washington, DC). She is the founder and chairwoman of HopeLab, a nonprofit organization in Palo Alto, CA that develops technology to help chronically ill children through food aid operations in Darfur, Sudan. She is the wife of Pierre Omidyar, founder and chairman of eBay.

Anne F. Oostendorp
2008 – A pediatric radiologist, Dr. Oostendorp left a $2 million bequest to the Christian Reformed World Missions (Grand Rapids, MI) and Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (Grand Rapids). The gift will support Christian education in ministries and will be divided evenly between these affiliated groups. Dr. Oostendorp died of cancer last year at the age of 66.

Silvia Balslew Page
2004 - Donated $1.5 million to Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland) to establish a professorship in ophthalmology.

Mary Joan Palevsky
2006 - A Los Angeles philanthropist, and former wife of computer tycoon Max Palevsky, Ms. Palevsky donated $200 million from her estate to the California Community Foundation. The fund supports the arts and human development, including community revitalization, education and health care. The gift was made without stipulation, and it came as a surprise since her only other donation to the foundation was $2,200 for a shortage of textbooks in the Los Angeles public schools. Ms. Palevesky gave more than $9 million over the years to the University of California at Los Angeles and donated a collection of about 650 Islamic art objects to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1973. Her will leaves $1.1 million to the museum, $1 million each to Mount St. Mary’s College, the National Partkinson’s Foundation and the United Negro College Fund. She also left 40 smaller bequests to other organizations.

Lizzie Pitts Merrill Palmer
(1838-1916) Founder, the Merrill Palmer Institute of Human Development and Family Life (Detroit)

Dorothy Dent Park
2004 - Ms. Park of Ithaca, NY donated $7 million for the School of Business at Ithaca College, NY. Ms. Park's late husband, Roy, founded Park Communications in Ithaca and served as chair of the college's board of trustees for many years.

2003 - A $5 million gift from Ms. Park will go to the North Caroline State University (Raleigh) to support a new alumni center.

Genevieve Patrick
2000 - Her bequest of $9 million to the University of Vermont will endow scholarships and research in health and the environment. Her late husband, Robert, was chairman of Rock of Ages Corporation.

Alice M. Keesberry Paulsen
2003 - Ms. Paulsen donated $2 million to the Wellness Community-Central Indiana (Indianapolis) through a bequest in the form of a charitable lead trust. The center provides support services for people with cancer and their families and friends. A resident of Indianapolis, Ms. Paulsen died in January 20002 at the age of 96.

Adele Warden Paxson
2001 - Donated $7 million through a bequest to the Academy of Vocal Arts (Philadelphia) for endowment and renovations. Her mother, Helen Corning Warden, founded the school.

Theodora Peigh
2006 - A rancher in Reno, NV, Ms. Peigh donated $12.6 million to the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California-Davis to set up an endowment for student scholarships.

Florence E. Perry
2001 - Ms. Perry donated $10.5 million to Purdue University for a chair in mechanical engineering.

Susan L. Perry
2005 - Baker University (Baldwin, KS) received a $1 million donation from Susan L. Perry to endow a professorship in the history of the American West. A resident of Albuquerque, Ms. Perry has served on the university's Board of Trustees.

Margaret Thiele Petti
2002 - Owner of a restaurant in Portland, Ms. Petti donated $4 million through a bequest to the Oregon Health & Science University Foundation (Portland) to support corneal research at the University. The bequest will endow chairs in ophthalmology and corneal service at the Casey Eye Institute.

Jo Ann and Sherrill Pettus
2000 - Donated $2.5 million to Southern Methodist University for a chair in American political

Joan Galbreath Phillips
2001 - An alumna and former chair of the board of trustees at Ohio University (Athens), Mrs. Phillips donated $41 million to help renovate the university's stadium. She is a resident of Columbus, OH. Her husband was J. Wallace Phillips, a lawyer for John W. Galbreath and Company, a real estate company founded by Mrs. Phillips' father.

Edna Bennett Pierce
2000 - A resident of Wilmington, DE, Mrs. Pierce gave $2.5 million to West Virginia University for programs and graduate scholarships at the Department of Chemistry and at Eberly College for the university libraries. Her late husband, C. Eugene Bennett, was a chemist and real estate developer.

Joanne Pochobradsky
2004 - Ms. Pochobradsky left a bequest of nearly $3 million to Coe College (Cedar Rapids, IA) for academic programs and endowment. A paralegal and 1948 graduate of the college, she died in 2003 at the age of 76.

Grace M. Pollock
2006 - Mrs. Pollack made a $15 million gift to the Lion Foundation in the Camp Hill School District, Camp Hill, PA designated for the performing arts programs at Eisenhower Elementary School. A resident of Camp Hill, Mrs. Pollack was a model and Broadway dancer. She was married to S.W. Pollock, a mechanical engineer who worked on the Manhattan Project. He was later vice president at AMP, in Harrisburg, PA. Mr. Pollock died in 1997.

Dorothy A. Pontious
2004 - A 1935 graduate of the college and former employee of Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Ms. Pontious donated $1.5 million to Chatham College (Pittsburgh) to endow a faculty chair.

Lois Pope
2002 - Ms. Pope donated $2 million to the Disabled Veterans' LIFE Memorial Foundation (Washington) to help build a memorial in Washington to honor America's disabled veterans. Her late husband, Generoso Pope Jr. founded the National Enquirer.

Kitty King Corbett Powell
2004 - A 1938 graduate of the college, Mrs. Powell donated $3 million to Sweet Briar College (VA) to renovate and expand the library. Her late husband, Ben, was executive vice president and chief counsel for Brown & Root.

Nancy Priest
2001 - A resident of Westfield, NJ and a university trustee, Ms. Priest donated $1.5 million to Drew University, Madison, NJ to build a rotunda and entrance to a new arts center.

Susan Pritzker
2005 - Ms. Pritzker, a resident of Chicago, donated $3 million to Pitzer College (Claremont, CA) for a new residence hall. Ms. Pritzker is chair of the college's Board of Trustees, and her family owns the Hyatt Corporation.

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Helen Walker Raleigh
2006 - Ms. Raleigh, who died in August of 2006 at the age of 87, left a $10 million bequest to the Rhode Island Foundation, Providence, RI. The gift includes $3 million to support research on and treatment of macular degeneration, and $3 million to support humane animal care, programs and services and “no kill” shelters. An additional $2.5 million will support conservation of indigenous trees in Rhode Island. Her late husband James C. Raleigh was a real estate appraiser in Providence, RI. He died in 1997.

Sarah E. Johnson Redlich
2007 - Donated $10 million to St. Lawrence University (Canton, NY) for the Science building which will be named after her. She also donated $1.8 million toward the position of department head in the Department of Conservation Biology. Ms. Redlich graduated from the university with a bachelor’s degree in biology in 1982. She is the owner of Spike and Annie, a children's clothing manufacturer and retailer in Burlingame, CA. Her husband, Christopher, is the chairman of the Marine Terminal Corporation, a company that manages stevedores and terminals in Oakland, CA.
2005 - Ms. Redlich donated $2.5 million to the Ethel Walker School, Simsbury, CT to construct and endow a riding ring and to support the school's capital campaign. She is a trustee of the school.

Elizabeth Mills Reid
(1858-1931) The American Red Cross and the Mills Memorial Hospital in San Mateo, California

Mary Bryan Reitch
2001 - A resident of Wood County, TX, she left $3.9 million through her estate to the Texas Woman's University in Denton, TX. She was a 1928 graduate of that University, then called the College of Industrial Arts. She died at the age of 92.

Betty Rendle
2000 - A $1,000,000 bequest from her estate will establish an athletic center and scholarships at the University of Wyoming. She was secretary to former Wyoming governor Stan Hathaway.

Margaret Rey
For her ninetieth birthday, the co-author of the "Curious George" books made two $1 million gifts - one to Beth Israel Hospital (Boston) and one to the Boston Public Library

Inger Rice
2006 - Pledged $2 million to Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond) to help construct an education outreach Building at the Niger and Walter Rice Center for Environmental Life Sciences. Ms. Rice and her late husband donated 343 acres to the university to build the center. Mr. Rice was a senior vice president at Reynolds Metals in Richmond and an ambassador to Australia.

2001 - Ms. Rice made a $4 million pledge to Virginia Commonwealth University. The donation consisted of land valued at $3.2 million and a charitable lead trust expected to generate $1.8 million for the university.

Florence Rigdon
2000 - Donated $1 million to California State University to construct the first building at the university's Coachella Valley campus. She is a dressmaker and painter.

Marilyn Whitsitt Rinehart
2006 - Ms. Rinehart donated $2 million to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to endow a professorship in natural products chemistry. She is the wife of the late Kenneth L. Rinehart, Jr. a professor of chemistry at the university.

Ann S. Riwchun
2001 - At her death in 1999, a $1 million bequest from this former president of the Buffalo Association for the Blind went to endow the Meyer H. Riwchun Professorship of Ophthalmology. The bequest honors her late husband, an ophthalmologist who maintained a private practice and taught at the university.

Sylvia H. Robb
2007 - Left a $1.8 million bequest from her estate to the University of California at Irvine. Her gift will endow a discretionary fund at the School of Medicine and will support the university’s library. Ms. Robb died in 2006 at the age of 97

Lora Robins
2000 - A resident of Richmond, Mrs. Robins gave $7 million to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond) to design, install and maintain a three-acre sculpture garden next to the museum. Her late husband's family founded the A.H. Robins pharmaceutical company.

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
(1874-1948) Co-founder, the Museum of Modern Art in New York

Grace Crum Rollins
2000 - A $5 million gift from Grace C. Rollins of Atlanta went to Emory University to establish the O. Wayne and Grace Crum Rollins Endowment Fund. She is the widow of O. Wayne Rollins, who founded the Rollins Company, a consumer-services company that includes the subsidiary Orkin Exterminating Company.

Elizabeth M. Ross
2001 - Donated $10 million to the graduate school of Ohio State University for the heart hospital in honor of her husband, Richard M. Ross, an alumnus and former president of Ross Laboratories in Columbus.

Violet Bica Ross
2004 - A retired teacher, Mrs. Ross donated $3.5 million to Washington & Jefferson College (Washington, PA) for its capital campaign. Her husband founded the L. Clayton Ross, Company in Ohio.

Louise Rossi
2007 - Ms. Rossi, who died in February 2007 at the age of 99, had worked as a bookkeeper for the C.L. Taylor Electric Company, St. Helena, CA. She bequeathed $12.5 million to the University of California - Davis through the sale of her ranch for viticultural research. This gift will be used to purchase equipment for the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science, will create one or more professorships, and will endow research on improving the production and flavor of grapes and wine.

Pleasant Rowland
2001 - Through the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation, Ms. Rowland donated a $2 million challenge grant to Ten Chimneys, the historic Wisconsin estate created by theatre legends Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. Ms. Rowland, who recently retired from Pleasant Company, is the creator of the American Girl brand, a line of books and products dedicated to teaching young girls about American history. She is also a major supporter of the arts in Wisconsin, and has had a life-long interest in the preservation and restoration of historic properties.

Barbara Peterson Ruhlman
2003 - Made a $1 million pledge over five years to establish an endowed chair in outdoor education at the Laurel School for girls, Shaker Heights, OH. Half of the gift will come from a foundation which was established by Mrs. Ruhlman's father. She is a member of the school's Board of Trustees and president of the Thomas F. Peterson Foundation in Cleveland.

Jean E. Russell
2008 – Made a $2 million unrestricted pledge to Cornell College (Mount Vernon, Iowa). The gift will endow a professorship in molecular biology and will be used for unrestricted support. A former professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Ms. Russell graduated from Cornell in 1965 with a bachelor’s degree in biology.

Wanda Russo
2001 - A resident of Fairfield, CT, Mrs. Russo donated $1 million to establish the Robert D. Russo, Sr. Scholarship Fund at Fairfield University, CT. The Fund honors her late husband, a former chairman of the radiology department at St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport, CT and a former university trustee who died in 1999.

Yvonne Arnoult Ryan
2001 - A former professor at Dillard University in New Orleans, Ms. Ryan died in 1999. She received a bachelor's degree and master's degree from Tulane University, where she endowed a professorship for $2.3 million

Margaret Olivia Sage
(1828-1918) The Russell Sage Foundation (NY)

Sarah H. Sayler
2001 - Donated $3.3 million to the League for People with Disabilities (Baltimore, MD) in memory of her late husband, Monroe H. Schoss.

Karla Scherer
2006 - Donated $1 million to endow lectures and programs for the Chicago Humanities Festival. She is a former director of the R.P. Scherer Corporation in Troy, MI.

Katherine Hackstaff Schlegel
2006 - A Los Angeles resident, Ms. Schlegel died in 2003. She left a $15 million bequest to Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, CA for an endowment to be named for her father, John D. Hackstaff, who died in 1960. The majority of funds will endow scholarships ($10.2 million). Another $2.2 million will endow the Jacobs Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership.

Madeline Thomas Schneider
2005 - Mrs. Schneider, a former technical aide at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, left a $25 million bequest to the Findlay-Hancock Community Foundation in Findlay, OH. The gift will establish a fund to benefit civic and nonprofit organizations in Hancock County, OH. She bequeathed an additional $5 million to the Culver Academies that her husband attended and $2.5 million to the Blanchard Valley Health Foundation, Findlay, OH. Mrs. Schneider, who died in January 2005, made the money through her investments in stocks and bonds.

Eleanor Busch Schnitzel
2007 - A former administrative engineer and resident of Newburgh, NY, Ms. Schnitzel left a $41 million bequest to the Lenoir-Ryne College (Hickory, NC). The gift will endow its library and enable the college to join the Appalachian College Association. A 1940 alumna of Lenoir-Rhyne, Ms. Schnitzel graduated with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. She died in 2005 at the age of 86.

Margaret Schreffler
2006 - Mrs. Schreffler made a $2.3 million bequest for a field of interest fund to benefit elderly people through the Centre County Community Foundation, State College, PA. A resident of Pleasant Gap, PA, Mrs. Schreffler died in 2001 at the age of 99. She worked with her husband in the family's trucking and automobile business.

Jean Schulz
2007 - Ms. Schulz donated $4 million to Sonoma State University (Rohnert Park, CA) for its capital campaign to build a music center. She is the widow of the late cartoonist Charles Schulz, creator of the comic strip Peanuts. Ms. Schulz earned a bachelor’s degree in English from the university in 1968. She is the president of the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, CA. The Schulzes previously gave $1 million to the music center project.

Margaret K. Schumo
2005 - Donated $4.8 million to fund a new fitness center at Albright College, Reading, PA. She is a real estate developer and owner of Spruce Lane Development Company in Hamburg, PA.

Marcelle S. Schwartz
2006 - Ms. Schwartz left a $1.5 million bequest to the City of Hope Cancer Center in Duarte, CA. The gift will support cancer research on the immune system. A travel agent who lived in Los Angeles, Ms. Schwartz fought breast cancer during her own life. She died in 2005.

Marie Schwartz
2006 - A former reporter at the Washington Post, Ms. Schwartz donated $1 million for a contemporary art gallery housed in the lobby of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Ms. Schwartz serves on the opera company’s board of directors. Her husband, Arnold Schwartz, was the founder of the Paragon Oil Company in New York. He died in 1979.

Dorothy McIlvain Scott
2006 - Donated $10 million to the Baltimore Museum of Art to endow operations and programs for its collection of American painting, decorative arts and sculpture. She donated much of her own art collection to the museum in 1981 while supporting the design of a new gallery space for those works. Ms. Scott inherited her fortune. She has been a trustee of the museum since 1977.

Ellen Browning Scripps
(1836-1932) Scripps Institute of Oceanography Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation Scripps College for Women

Eileen Sears
2005 - Ms. Sears, who died in 2004, left a $3.8 million bequest to the University of Dayton (OH) to augment a scholarship fund that she and her husband had started. She was a teacher of music and education in the Dayton Public Schools and at the University of Dayton. Her husband also taught at the University of Dayton (his alma mater) before working for Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.

Zelda E. Segal
2003 - Ms. Segal, who died in February 2003, donated $3 million through a bequest to establish an endowment for educational programs at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, New York.

Florence Davis Sewell
2001 - Mrs. Sewell set up a charitable remainder trust worth nearly $24.9 million, which will benefit eight Chicago charities. She died in 2000 at the age of 95 and was married to Ike Sewell who founded the Pizzeria Uno, Pizzeria Due, and Su Casa restaurant chains. The Northwestern Memorial Hospital Foundation will receive $6.15 million to endow the Florence and Ike Sewell Museum in the hospital's main building. Other Chicago groups that will receive portions of the bequest include the Fourth Presbyterian Church, $4.92 million; Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, $3.96 million; the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, $2.46 million; the Chicago Historical Society, $2.46 million; the Art Institute of Chicago, $1.23 million; the Lincoln Park Zoo, $1.23 million; and the Illinois Masonic Medical Center Foundation, $1.23 million. The Multiple Sclerosis Society, in New York, will receive $1.23 million.

Mary A. Shanley
2001 - A native of Fort Myers, FL, and a former office manager, Mrs. Shanley made a $2.5 million bequest to the Southwest Florida Community Foundation, Fort Myers. Her late husband was an engineer. The fund will provide college scholarships to students who graduate from high schools in Lee, Charlotte, and Henry Counties.

Pauline Agassiz Shaw
(1841-1917) Causes ranging from women's suffrage to the kindergarten movement

Muriel Siebert
Siebert Entrepreneurial Philanthropic Plan

Luella Slaner
2003 - Ms. Slaner made a $1 million bequest to the Asian Studies program at Purchase College of the State University of New York.

Helen Farr Sloan
2007 - Ms. Farr, who died in 2005 at the age of 94, left a $6.9 million bequest of cash and artworks to the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE. A painter, Ms. Sloan’s gift will endow the curation and educational programs of the museum. Ms. Sloan’s husband John was a prominent painter who died in 1951.

Bertie Deming Smith
2005 - A resident of Alexandria, LA, Mrs. Smith pledged a total of $6.5 million to spur funding for an ambitious ten-year strategic plan called "Composing Our Future," at Mary Baldwin College (Staunton, VA). The first installment of $2 million will be spent on campus planning and facilities. Having attended Mary Baldwin for two years in the mid-1940s, Mrs. Smith is the sister and aunt of women who are also alumnae. She is a trustee emerita of the college's board of trustees, having served for more than 30 years until 1996. Among her many gifts, she and her family established the first endowed chair (business management) created by a women's college in the South in 1979. The Bertie Murphy Deming Hall Fine Arts Center on Mary Baldwin's campus also bears her name. Her father was the founder of Murphy Oil Corporation. Mrs. Smith is now married to Joe Smith, former Publisher of the Alexandria Daily Town Talk in Louisiana.

2005 - Ms. Smith donated $6 million to Tulane University (New Orleans) for endowment and for the Murphy Institute of Political Economy. A resident of Alexandria, LA, Ms. Smith is a member of the Tulane University President's Council. Her late husband, John W. Deming, was a 1944 graduate of the Tulane Medical School who served on the university's Board of Administrators.

Mignon C. Smith
2005 - A $5 million gift from Ms. Smith of Washington will establish a chair of integrity in Business at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. Ms. Smith's father was president and CEO of Avondale Mills, a textile company that has operations in several Southern states.

Sarah Horne Smith
2007 - Ms. Horne left a $3 million unrestricted bequest to the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta. A portion of the gift ($200,000) will endow a scholarship for Moving in the Spirit, a local arts organization. Ms. Horne died in 2002.

Sophia Smith
1871 - $393,105 to create Smith College in Massachusetts

Vera C. Smith
2007 - Ms. Smith left a $4.3 million bequest to Joliet Junior College Foundation, Joliet, IL. Ms. Smith, who died in 2006 at the age of 102, was retired director of admissions and records at the college. Her bequest will create an endowment for scholarships and programs.

Catherine G. Spaar
2001 - A $4.4 million bequest from the estate of Catherine G. Spaar went to Tulane University, New Orleans, LA for scholarships in engineering and to renovate the engineering facilities. Her late husband, William H. Spaar, worked as an engineer in the US Army. Mrs. Spaar who died in November, 2000, was a resident of San Antonio, TX.

Janet Wittan Spear
2001 - A resident of Gastonia, NC, Ms. Spear donated $1 million to Hollins University, Roanoke, VA for the biology department. She is an alumna of the university who ran a flower shop in Philadelphia.

Velma Speight-Buford
2003 - North Carolina A&T State University received $1.1 million in land and other assets from Velma Speight-Buford, a retired high school teacher and former director of alumni affairs at the University.

Hilma Speights
2005 - Ms. Speights left a $4.1 million bequest to Clark College Foundation (Vancouver, WA) for nursing education. Ms. Speights, who died in 2004, was a resident of Washougal, WA. She spent most of her career working for Alcoa.

Ellin Leslie Prince Lowery Speyer
(1849-1921) The New York League of Women Workers, the Working Girls' Vacation Society, the Nursery for Colored Children and the New York Women's League for Animals

Lauren Spilman
2005 - Made a $70 million pledge to the Cleveland Clinic with her mother Sydell Miller and sister Stacie Halpern, for a new cardiac center. Ms. Spilman's parents founded Matrix Essentials located in Solon, OH. Her father, Arnold, died in 1992. The firm manufactures hair and beauty products.

Lucile Spriggs
2007 - Ms. Spriggs left a $1 million bequest to the University of Wisconsin at River Falls to support scholarships for students who demonstrate leadership skills. She was a 1938 alumna of the university, graduating with bachelor’s degrees in social students and English. Ms. Spriggs died in 2005 at the age of 88.

Irma C. Sprinkle
2001 - Former assistant to the president of Marion College and former assistant to the dean at Emory and Henry College, Emory BA, Mrs. Sprinkle donated $1.3 million to Hampden-Sydney College (VA) to establish the Willis McCollum Sprinkle scholarship in memory of her late husband. He was a medical doctor and a graduate of Hampden-Sydney.

Mary Jane Stamm
2008 – Left a $6 million bequest to the Oregon Health and Science University Foundation (Portland) to support scholarships for medical students. An obstetrician and gynecologist in Castro Valley, CA, Dr. Stamm graduated from the university in 1943 with a medical degree. She died in 2007 at the age of 91.

Jane Eliza Lathrop Stanford (1828-1905) and Phoebe Hearst
1900 - "Two Women's Gifts of Twenty-Five Millions" was the headline of a newspaper article describing the gifts of Jane Stanford and Phoebe Hearst to Stanford University

Mary Wallace Stanton
2004 -Through a bequest of $2.34 million, Ms. Stanton of Baltimore endowed professorships at the school of medicine at The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

Jean Louise Stellfox
2005 - Ms. Stellfox, who died in 2003, made a bequest of $1.5 million to Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA) to sponsor writers to speak at the college. Ms. Stellfox taught English at a high school in Shamokin, PA. She made her money from investments.

Dorothy Stentz
2005 - Ms. Stentz of Carmel, CA left a $4.7 million bequest to the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Boston) for general support.

Caroline Phelps Stokes (1854-1909) and Olivia Egleston Phelps Stokes (1847-1927)
The Tuskegee Institute and the Phelps-Stokes Fund

Judith Sulzberger
2005 - Along with her sisters Marian Heiskell and Ruth Holmbert, Ms. Sulzberger donated $4 million to the City University of New York for scholarships for students attending its new graduate school of journalism. The donors are sisters of Arthur O. Sulzberger, the retired publisher of The New York Times, and are making the gift in his honor. They also donated $4 million to Columbia University in New York City to establish a program that will provide advanced management training to executives of news organizations.

Margaret Surbeck
2002 - A resident of Atherton, CA, she donated $2.1 million from her estate to Northwestern College (Iowa) for scholarships. The gift will expand a scholarship established in 1984 by Mrs. Surbeck and her late husband, who was a lawyer in New York.

Ann Swindells
2005 - Donated $5 million to the Church Divinity School of the Pacific (Berkeley, CA) to endow a chair in Old Testament Studies. Ms. Swindells is a resident of Portland OR and Rancho Mirage, CA. Her husband, Bill, is a retired executive of Willamette Industries, the lumber products company in Portland, OR.

Valeria Symington
2004 - A farmer who died in Leesburg, VA in August 2003 at age 87, Ms. Symington left approximately $19.5 million to five organizations, including $2.5 million each to Temple Hall Farm, the Oatlands Plantation, The Ida Leed Recreation Center, Loudoun County Day School, and the Rust Library all located in Leesburg. The residual trust of her estate, which is valued at approximately $7 million, will be settled within the next several years. The farm, library and recreation center will each receive 25 percent of the settled trust and the other two groups will receive 12.5 percent of it.

Juliana Curran Terian
2007 - Ms. Terian donated $5 million to Pratt Institute, New York to help construct its Design Center. The Center will house the institutes of communications, fashion, and industrial and interior-design programs. Ms. Terian is chairman of the Rallye group, an automobile dealership in Roslyn NY.

Ruth Price Thomas
2001 - A resident of Aurora, NY, Mrs. Thomas left a bequest worth more than $40 million to two institutions of higher education and five other nonprofit groups. Cornell University in Ithaca, NY and Wells College in Aurora will each receive approximately $20 million for endowment. Mrs. Thomas died in August 2001. She had founded a company in New York that designed retail displays. Her husband was Leonard Brinton Thomas, who worked in the legal department of pharmaceutical manufacturer, Pfizer.

Anna Bryant Thompson
2004 - Donated $10 million to Emory and Henry College, Emory, VA for a scholarship fund. Ms Thompson, who owned a dress shop in Richmond, VA died in November 2003 at the age of 98. Her father had attended Emory and Henry College.

Flora L. Thornton
2006 - Donated $5 million to the University of Southern California - Los Angeles for a new building at the Thornton School of Music. Ms. Thornton is a trustee of the University.

Clara Toppan
2006 - Bequeathed 160-acre ranch to the University of Wyoming in Laramie following her death in 2001. A certified public accountant, Ms. Toppan graduated from the university with a bachelor’s degree in accounting in 1931. He ranch, which has been sold for $16 million, was located near the Grand Teton national park in Wilson Wyoming. The proceeds will support the university’s rare books library and endow scholarships for undergraduate accounting students as well as student athletes.

Ruth A. Trout
2005 - A 1936 graduate of Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA), Ms. Trout left a bequest in excess of $5 million to the college to endow the purchase, exhibition and preservation of art works at the college's Trout Gallery. The gallery was established in 1983 though support from Ms. Trout and her sister. A teacher and librarian for the Harrisburg School District in Pennsylvania, Ms. Trout died in 2004.

Annie Vogel Tschoepe
2003 - Mrs. Tschoepe made a bequest of at least $4 million in land and other assets to Texas Lutheran University (Seguin) to support the construction of a building for the College of Professional Studies. She died in March, 2002.

Lucy Tull
2006 - Ms. Tull left $5.3 million to Salisbury University (MD) to endow scholarships for nursing and pre-medical students. The gift will also fund faculty development and equipment in the nursing department. Ms. Tull, who inherited her money, died in 2006 at the age of 95.

Anne C. Twaddle
2005 - Donated $1,033,266 through a bequest to the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Boston). The gift will be used for the Angell Animal Medical Center. Ms. Twaddle died in 2002.

Katherine Leidy Unger
2004 - A high school English Teacher, Ms. Unger donated $3.5 million for the Hoover Library at McDaniel College (Westminster, MD). She is a 1932 graduate of the college.

Gail Patrick Velde
2004 - Ms. Velde, who died in 1980, left $1 million from her estate to provide scholarships and honoraria to members of the Delta Zeta Foundation (Oxford, OH). An actress, she was a former vice-president of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Caroline Cramer Voss
2002 - Ms. Cramer made a $2 million bequest to the University of Southern Colorado (Pueblo) for music scholarships. She was a music store owner with her late husband and was a private investor.

Gladys and Honey Waldman
2006 - The sisters donated $1.5 million to Emerson College (Boston) to endow a professorship in theater arts. Honey Waldman is a 1946 graduate of the college. She is the owner of the Bouwerie Land Theater in New York City and the Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center in Nyack, NY.

Madam C.J. Walker
(1867-1919) Entrepreneur, philanthropist and social activist and the daughter of former slaves, Sarah Breedlove Walker created jobs and economic opportunities for thousands of women and men through the hair care and cosmetics company she founded in 1905, and is considered the first self-made American woman millionaire. Walker used her wealth to support many social causes, organizations and institutions that improved the lives of women and African Americans, including the NAACP, the YMCA, the YWCA, and several colleges and schools.

Helga Wall-Apelt
2006 - An art collector and resident of Sarasota, FL, Ms. Wall-Apelt pledged at least $8 million and a collection of art works to the John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art at Florida State University in Sarasota. The total value of the gifts is expected to be more than $50 million, including the value of the art, cash donations and other money she had pledged to support the gallery's operation. Ms. Wall-Apelt has requested that the cash donation be used to help the museum expand its facilities and be added to the museum's endowment.

Haya Wallace
2006 - Ms. Wallace, who died in April 2006, left a $4 million gift from her estate to endow professorships in writing and reporting at the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon. The gift includes art and artifacts from Ms. Wallace’s collection which will go to the university’s museum of art. Mr. Wallace, a journalist, was a 1950 graduate of the school of journalism. He died in 2004.

Martha Walter
2002 - Left an unrestricted bequest of $2 million to the University of Dayton (Ohio) to build a center for visual and the performing arts. She inherited stock in Bank One (formerly Winters National Bank) from her father.

Barbara Walters
2002 - Donated $1 million to Sarah Lawrence College for the visual-arts center. She is an alumna of the College.

Helen R. Walton
2006 - Mrs. Walton, who is the widow of Sam M. Walton, founder of Wal-Mart, has donated $20 million to the University of the Ozarks, Clarksville, AK. Her gift will create a teacher education program, support new faculty positions and establish both a loan and scholarship fund. It will also supplement the University's endowment fund.

Margaret Murray Washington
(1865-1925) Founder, National Association of Colored Women, Washington,D.C. 1896

Florence Weaver
2006 - Ms. Weaver, a librarian at BF Goodrich in Richfield OH, left a $3.8 million bequest to the Summa Health System of Akron, OH. The gift will support cardiac treatment and research at Akron City Hospital. Ms. Weaver’s husband, Wilfred, had undergone heart surgery at the hospital.

Virginia Frances Webb
2007 - Left a $1 million bequest to Baylor University Waco, TX to establish an endowment for the Martin Museum of Art and Mayborn Museum’s Traveling exhibit Program. A retired teacher who lived in Texas, Ms. Webb died in 2005 at the age of 95.

Virginia Webbert
2006 - Ms. Webbert, who died in 2004, left a $2.7 million bequest to Wellesley College, MA for financial aid for students majoring in economics or music. Ms. Webbert was a 1935 graduate of the college. A resident of Washington, she served as the Indonesian desk officer for the U.S. Commerce Department.

Pauline Evetts Weinberger
2006 - Ms. Weinberger, who died in 2002, left a $2.8 million bequest to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. The bequest will provide clinical and research programs. Ms. Weinberger, a resident of Dallas, was the wife of Adolph J. Weinberger, the founder of a company that became part of the Eckerd Drugs chain.

Carole Weinstein
2007 - Donated $9 million to the University of Richmond (Virginia) to support the international studies program. A former trustee, Ms. Weinstein graduated from the university in 1963 with a bachelor’s degree and in 1977 with a master’s degree - both in English. She is vice chairman of Weinstein Properties, a real estate management firm in Richmond.

Virginia Weiss
2005 - Ms. Weiss of Baltimore donated $2 million to the Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore) for a new heart institute. The institute will be housed in a cardiovascular and critical-care facility

Margaret Wepner
2007 - A retired executive secretary in Illinois state government, Ms. Wepner died in 2005 at the age of 91. Through a bequest from her estate she left $1.1 million to endow a professorship in political science, a faculty excellence award, and scholarships.

Doris Hageman Whalen
2002 - Ms. Whalen donated $1.2 million to Oregon State University for scholarships and for the library.

Mary Mildred Whalen
2006 - Ms. Whalen, who died in 2004, left a $6.3 million unrestricted bequest to the Santa Rosa Children's Hospital Foundation in San Antonio, TX. She had been an elementary school teacher in San Antonio.

Meg Whitman
2002 - Ms. Whitman donated $30 million to Princeton University for a new residential college.

Eleanor Elkins Widener
1911 - $3 million to Harvard University to build the masterpiece of the University's library system, Widener Library

Audrey L. Wilder
2003 - Widow of the filmmaker Billy Wilder, she donated $5 million to build a movie theater at the UCLA Hammer Museum that will hold public screenings of films in the university's film and television archives.

Blanche Willner
2003 - Ms. Willner's family made a $1 million gift in her name to Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel). The gift will support academic programs for high school students, scholarships for graduate students and scientific research. Ms. Willner died in September 2002. Her husband, Albert, is president of the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science, in New York.

Marcia Belmar Willock
2006 - Made a $1 million pledge to the State University of New York at Oswego to endow a professorship in finance. She earned a degree in elementary education at the university in 1950. A resident of Cumberland Foreside ME, she is an investor.

Louise Wheelock Willson
2004 - Ms. Willson, whose family founded Pioneer HiBred International, a seed-producing company in Des Moines that was purchased by DuPont, left bequests totaling $21 million to 12 organizations. Most of the bequests were designated for arts organizations, including: $5 million to the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, Hartford, CT and to the Madeira School in McLean, VA, from which she graduated in 1948. She also donated $2 million to the New Britain Museum of American Art, in Connecticut. The following groups each received $1 million: The Connecticut Opera Association, Hartford, CT; Hartford Hospital; The Hartford Stage Company; the Hartford Symphony Orchestra; the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in Norfolk, CT and to the Westminster School, Simsbury, CT.

Penelope Perkins Wilson
2005 - A resident of Malvern PA, MS. Wilson donated $5.8 million to Bennington College (VT) for campus improvements. She is a trustee of the college and is the owner of The Grand, a hotel in Big Timber, MT.

Rosemary Wilson
2005 - Donated $5 million to the Juilliard School, New York City, for its capital campaign. She is the widow of the composer Meredith Wilson, a Juilliard alumnus.

Oprah Winfrey
2006 - Ms. Winfrey donated $50 million to the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy Foundation, Chicago, to pay construction and operating costs for the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls - South Africa, in Henly-on-Klip, South Africa. The private academy is designed to serve grades 7 thorough 12 and incorporate leadership education in a rounded liberal-arts curriculum. The academy, which opened in early 2007, will help women prepare to take leadership roles in South Africa.

In addition, during 2006 Ms. Winfrey donated $5.9 million to Oprah’s Angel Network in Chicago for operating costs. She established the nonprofit organization in 1998 to encourage other celebrities and her fans to donate to charity. She pays the organization’s administrative costs so all money donated from others can go directly to charitable causes. Ms. Winfrey donated an additional $2.4 million to other nonprofit groups.

Other gifts from Ms. Winfrey include:

2004 - $1 million to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH.

Eula Goss Wintermann
2001 - Through her estate, Ms. Wintermann donated property valued at $4.5 million to the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston for support of programs.

Maude Woods Wodehouse
2003 - Real estate heiress Maude W. Wodehouse left a total of $122 million to 16 charitable organizations and schools in Hawaii, where she owned a ranch on the Island of Hawaii. The widow of Cenric N. Wodehouse, whose grandmother founded the Victoria Ward real estate company in Honolulu, Ms. Wodehouse died at the age of 87 in July 2003. The couple had no children.

Ms. Wodehouse bequeathed charitable trusts to the following institutions:

$18 million to The Bishop Museum, Honolulu to endow the museum which specializes in natural history, culture and natural resources in Hawaii.
$18 million to the Punahous School (Honolulu) for faculty support for programs at this college preparatory school. Ms. Wodehouse graduated from the school in 1933.
$9 million to the Hawaii Community Foundation (Honolulu) to support programs that help prevent child abuse and neglect.
$9 million to the Nature Conservancy of Hawaii (Honolulu)
$2 million to the American Cancer Society Hawaii Pacific.
Additionally, the estate created a $6 million charitable remainder trust to benefit the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association (Honolulu), the American Red Cross-Hawaii State Chapter (Honolulu), Christ Episcopal Church (Kealakekua, HI), the Daughters of Hawaii (Honolulu), the Hawaii Lions foundation (Honolulu), the Hospice of Kuna (Kailua-Kona, HI), the Institute for Human Services (Honolulu), and the Iolani School (Honolulu).
Hawaii Preparatory Academy (Kamuela) and the Hawaiian and Pacific Islands Division of the Salvation Army (Honolulu) have also received trusts from the estate, but declined to reveal the size of their gifts or how they will be used.

Emma Carola Woershoffer
(1885-1911) $750,000 to Bryn Mawr College, her alma mater

Julie A. Wrigley
2007 - Ms. Wrigley donated $10 million to Arizona State University (Tempe) to endow four professorships in renewable - energy systems, sustainable business practices, global environmental change, and complex-systems dynamics. Ms. Wrigley is president of Wrigley Investments, Sun Valley, ID. The company invests in stocks, hedge funds, and fixed income securities. In 2004, Ms. Wrigley gave $15 million to establish Arizona State’s Global Institute of Sustainability of which she now serves as co-chair. He late husband, William, was president of the William Wrigley, Jr.

Dorothea E. Wyatt
2008 – Left an $8 million bequest from her estate to the University of Michigan – Flint. Ms. Wyatt was one of the university’s original faculty members and a professor emerita of history. The gift will endow a professorship in history, support scholarships and faculty research, and help create connections between the history program and the communities in and around Flint.
Ms. Wyatt died in 2007 at the age of 98.

Dot Wyatt
2007 - Ms. Wyatt donated $1 million to the Cape Fear Botanical Garden (Fayetteville, NC). The gift will be used for expansion of the facility including a new visitors’ Pavilion, exhibits, and educational programs. She is Vice President of Valley Auto World, a car dealership started by her late husband, John, in Fayetteville, NC.

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Lenor Zeeh
2007 - Donated $1 million to the University of Wisconsin at Madison to support the Lenor Zeeh Pharmaceutical Experiment Station. The station will be a research and development laboratory at the university’s School of Pharmacy. Ms. Zeeh is a retired director and vice president of Rennebohm Drug Stores in Madison.

Helen Zell
2005- Ms. Zell donated $5 million to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor to increase graduate student fellowships and stipends in the M.F.A. program in creative writing. Her gift will also create a fund for the Zell Visiting Writers Lecture Series, and will endow the directorship of the creative-writing program. Ms. Zell, whose money stems from investments, graduated from the university in 1964.

Marilyn Ziering
2006 - Donated $3.25 million to the Los Angeles Opera to produce a series of music performances by composers affected by the Holocaust, including Franz Schreker, Viktor Ullmann, Kurt Weill and Alexander Zemlinsky.