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$2 MILLION to the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN for minority scholarships. The Jamails say they hope the gift will reverse a trend of lower minority enrollment at the university and its law school.
The Family of Kathleen C. and Floyd Cailloux
Kerrville, $10 million
$10 MILLION to the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS M.D. ANDERSON CANCER CENTER, in Houston, for cancer research. “Our family wanted to give a gift to something worthwhile in Texas,” says Kenneth Cailloux, the couple’s son. “Genetic research could help make great strides in treating cancer.” The late Floyd Cailloux was the chairman and majority stockholder of Keystone International, a valve manufacturer.
Raymond D. Nasher
Dallas, $7.5 million
$7.5 million to DUKE UNIVERSITY, in Durham, North Carolina, to help build the Nasher Museum of Art. “I went to Duke and was on the board,” says Mr. Nasher, a banker, a developer, and an art collector. “I always thought the one thing it lacked was a cultural center.”
John and Julie O’Quinn
Houston, $7.5 million
$6 MILLION to the UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON to fund the expansion of Robertson Stadium. Mr. O’Quinn, an alumnus of the U of H Law Center and a member of the U of H System Board of Regents, is a trial lawyer who was part of the State of Texas’ tobacco litigation team.
$1.5 MILLION to Houston’s CHILDREN’S ASSESSMENT CENTER, a facility where sexually abused children are treated and counseled.
Donald J. and Linda J. Carter
Dallas, $7 million
A total of $7 MILLION to the TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN, in Dallas, to create the Christi Carter Urschel Family Resource Center, which is named for their daughter. Half of the gift came directly from the Carters; the other half came from the Donald J. and Linda J. Carter Fund of the Communities Foundation of Texas. Mr. Carter is the chairman emeritus of Home Interiors and Gifts, which was founded by his late mother, Mary C. Crowley.
John P. McGovern
Houston, $6.5 million
$6.5 MILLION to DUKE UNIVERSITY’s School of Medicine to help fund the McGovern-Davison Children’s Health Center. Dr. McGovern, a Duke alumnus, made the gift in tribute to his mentor, the late Dr. Wilburt Cornell Davison, who was the first dean of Duke’s School of Medicine. “When I was in medical school and throughout my medical career, Dr. Davison was my hero, benefactor, and best friend,” says Dr. McGovern, the founder of the McGovern Allergy Clinic, the largest private allergy clinic in the U.S. “He remains so.”
Harold Riley
Austin, $6 million
$6 MILLION to SOUTHWESTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, in Fort Worth, the largest gift in its history. Mr. Riley’s father, the Reverend Ray Riley, studied at the seminary in the forties. Mr. Riley is the chairman, founder, and CEO of Citizens Insurance.
Jack S. and Laura Lee Blanton
Houston, $5 million
$5 MILLION to the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN’S JACK S. BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART. “The University of Texas desperately needs and deserves a museum that will support its mission of excellence in research and teaching,” says Mr. Blanton, who is the president of Eddy Refining Company and a past chair of the University of Texas System Board of Regents.
Paul B. Loyd
Houston, $5 million
$5 MILLION to SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY, in Dallas, for the construction of an all-sports center. The building will be named for Loyd, an SMU alumnus and the chairman of R&B Falcon Corporation, which specializes in oil and gas offshore drilling.
Ellison Miles
Dallas, $3.5 million
$3.5 MILLION to the DALLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION for the construction of the Ellison Miles Geotechnology Institute at Brookhaven College, in Farmers Branch. Mr. Miles, an oilman, is the foundation’s director emeritus.
Jeff Condit, Jim Condit, John and Tina Condit
San Antonio, $3 million
$3 million to TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY, in Lubbock, to fund programs at its colleges of business administration and home economics. Messrs. Condit, who are brothers, co-own Domicile, a property management company; they and Mrs. Condit all graduated from the university.
John L. and Anne W. Marion
Fort Worth, $3 million
$3 MILLION—the value of Georgia O’Keeffe’s home at Ghost Ranch and twelve surrounding acres—to the GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Marions (he, the former chairman of Sotheby’s; she, a Tandy heiress) bought the home and land and donated them to the museum, which they founded in November 1995.
John J. and Rebecca Moores
Houston, $3 million
$2 MILLION to SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY, in San Diego, California, to fund the construction of its new tennis facility. Mr. Moores, who founded BMC Software in 1980, is the majority owner of the San Diego Padres.
$1 MILLION to the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO to help fund its proposed college-prep charter school.
Margaret McDermott
Dallas, $3 million
$3 MILLION to the HOCKADAY SCHOOL, in Dallas—the largest gift in the private school’s 85-year history—to establish the Eugene McDermott Headmistress Chair. Mrs. McDermott’s late husband was a co-founder of Texas Instruments. Their daughter attended Hockaday; their granddaughter is enrolled there now.
Harold Simmons
Dallas, $2.19 million
$1.2 MILLION to SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY to endow four full-tuition scholarships in the President’s Scholars program. Mr. Simmons, a banker, has served on the executive boards of SMU’s Edwin L. Cox School of Business and Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences. $990,000 to the PARKLAND HEALTH AND HOSPITAL SYSTEM, in Dallas, to fund the creation of a violence intervention and prevention center.
Perry R. and Nancy Lee Bass
Fort Worth, $2 million
$2 MILLION to the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN’s JACK S. BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART. Mr. Bass, a UT alumnus, is the president and director of Perry R. Bass, Inc., an investment company.
Nancy Hamon
Dallas, $2 million
$1 MILLION to renovate the fifth floor of the downtown DALLAS PUBLIC LIBRARY and to create the Nancy and Jake L. Hamon Oil and Gas Resource Center. “My husband was a friend of the library from way, way back when he first came to Dallas,” says Mrs. Hamon. “And he worked with them a lot and he read prodigiously, and that was one of his favorite charities.”
$1 MILLION to the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER AT DALLAS to expand the Southwestern Center for Breast Care. She originally pledged $500,000. When she received a thank-you letter with her name misspelled as “Hammon,” she sent a note to the executive director of the center pledging another gift. “If one ‘M’ is worth $500,000,” she wrote, “two ‘M’s should be worth $1 million.”
William W. and Margot Winspear
Dallas, $2 million
$2 MILLION to the UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS, in Denton, the largest gift in its 108-year history. $1.4 million will go to the university’s new performing arts center to help fund the construction of the four-hundred-seat Lyric Theater. The remainder will be used to endow music scholarships. Mr. Winspear is the CEO of Associated Materials, a home-improvement company.
John Ferris
Dallas, $1.5 million
$1.5 MILLION to TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY for scholarships at its College of Business Administration. Mr. Ferris, a Texas Tech alumnus, is a senior vice president of Everen Securities.
Roy M. Huffington
Houston, $1.5 million
$1.5 MILLION to SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY’s Edwin L. Cox School of Business to endow a chair in finance in honor of Mr. Huffington’s wife, Phyllis Gough Huffington. Mr. Huffington, an SMU alum, is the chairman and president of Roy M. Huffington, Inc., an international petroleum operations company.
William P. Clements, Jr.
Dallas, $1.25 million
$1.25 MILLION to the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER AT DALLAS to help recruit outstanding young scientists in response to a $25 million challenge by an anonymous donor in 1997. A two-time governor of Texas, Mr. Clements is the founder of Southwestern Drilling Company.
Thomas O. Hicks
Dallas, $1.25 million
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