Thanks a Million ’98
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$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. Mr. Hicks, a co-founder, the chairman, and the CEO of the investment firm Hicks, Muse, Tate, and Furst, is a member of the UT System Board of Regents.
Jeffrey A. and Nancy Cain Marcus
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. The gift is in recognition of the care one of Mrs. Marcus’ friends received at UT-Southwestern. Mr. Marcus, the founder and chairman of Marcus Cable, the ninth-largest cable TV company in the United States, is a member of the Southwestern Medical Foundation’s board of directors.
W. A. “Tex” and Deborah Moncrief
Fort Worth, $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. Mr. Moncrief, an oilman, is a past donor to UT-Southwestern.
Michael L. Rosenberg
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. Mr. Rosenberg, who formerly owned a wholesale wine and liquor business in New York, is a member of the board of UT-Southwestern’s private referral hospital, Zale Lipshy University Hospital.
Alex and Patti Munson
Lubbock, $1.1 million
$1.1 MILLION to TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY. $500,000 will fund undergraduate scholarships for women’s basketball, $400,000 will create an endowment to pay the salary of the women’s basketball coach, $100,000 will be used for the athletic academic-services building, and $100,000 will pay for programming at KOHM, the campus classical music station. Dr. Munson is a child psychiatrist and the vice president of the Canyon Lakes Residential Treatment Center, a private adolescent psychiatric hospital.
William E. Armentrout
Dallas, $1 million
$1 MILLION to SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY to establish an endowed scholarship fund at its Edwin L. Cox School of Business. Mr. Armentrout worked for most of his career as a supervisor at SEDCO, the world’s largest drilling contracting firm.
Robert and Laura Kyle Baker
Lubbock, $1 million
$1 MILLION to TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY’s Museum of Texas Tech to pay for the creation of scientific publications. Mr. Baker is the museum’s director of natural sciences and its curator of mammals and vital tissues. Dr. Baker, a Texas Tech alumna, is an associate professor of patient care in the Department of Community Medicine at the university’s Health Sciences Center.
Ed and Nelda Benninger
San Antonio, $1 million
$1 MILLION to TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY to fund programs at its colleges of business administration and arts and sciences. Mr. Benninger, a Texas Tech alum, is the former president and chief financial officer of Valero Energy Corporation.
Jane O. Burns
Lubbock, $1 million
$1 MILLION to TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY to create the Jane O. Burns Endowment, which will fund scholarships and a professorship in accounting at its College of Business Administration. Mrs. Burns is a professor emeritus of accounting at Texas Tech.
William P.Hobby
Houston, $1 million
$1 MILLION to SOUTHWEST TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY, in San Marcos, to endow a public service academy and a professorship in public service that will bear his name. “I’m familiar with what the various schools offer in this area,” says Mr. Hobby, a former lieutenant governor of Texas, “and I think Southwest Texas State University is an excellent program. I’m glad to have the opportunity to support it.”
Edmund and Adelyn Hoffman
Dallas, $1 million
$1 MILLION to the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER AT DALLAS to endow a professorship. Mr. Hoffman, the former co-chairman of the Southwest Coca-Cola Bottling Group, is a trustee of the Southwestern Medical Foundation. One of the Hoffmans’ sons, Dr. Richard Hoffman, graduated from UT-Southwestern’s medical school.
J. L. and Sydney Huffines
Dallas, $1 million
$1 MILLION to the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER AT DALLAS to support cancer research. Mr. Huffines, who owns five automobile dealerships, is a trustee of the Southwestern Medical Foundation. “This contribution might help the quality of life of some people in the future,” he says.
James R. “Buzz” Hurt and Betsy Triplett-Hurt
Odessa, $1 million
$1 MILLION to TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY to fund programs at its School of Medicine. Mr. Hurt is a rancher. Mrs. Triplett-Hurt is a former journalist and a national chair of the university’s capital campaign.
Ronald and Carole Krist
Houston, $1 million
$1 MILLION to the SHRINERS BURNS INSTITUTE, in Galveston, to establish the Krist-Mlakar Endowment for Burned Children. Mr. Krist, a Houston attorney, represented a three-year-old boy who was badly burned when his family’s pickup was involved in a crash. The boy’s doctor was Joseph Mlakar, of the Shriners Burns Institute. “We were so moved by his God-like love for the children that we wanted to do what we could,” Mr. Krist says.
John Muse
Dallas, $1 million
$1 MILLION to BIRDWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, in Tyler—one of the largest donations ever made to a public school in the U.S.—for capital improvements. “I went to school there, and there are still great kids and great teachers there,” says Mr. Muse, a co-founder and the chief operating officer of Hicks, Muse, Tate, and Furst, “but the building is woefully inadequate, and the temporary buildings made the playground inadequate.”
Gary Petersen
Houston, $1 million
$1 MILLION to TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY’s College of Business Administration. Mr. Petersen, a Texas Tech alumnus and a member of its Chancellor’s Council, is a managing director and co-founder of EnCap Investments.
Phil and Victoria Price
Lubbock, $1 million
$1 MILLION to TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY to be split between its School of Mass Communications and its Vietnam Center. The Prices are Texas Tech alums and members of its Chancellor’s Council. Mr. Price is the president of Price Communications Group, an advertising agency.
E. M. “Manny” and Rosalyn Rosenthal
Fort Worth, $1 million
$1 MILLION to the BASS PERFORMANCE HALL, in Fort Worth, to fund construction of the sky-blue Rosenthal Great Dome. Mr. Rosenthal was the CEO of Standard Meat Company, which his father founded in 1937. In 1983 the company merged with Consolidated Foods, which later became Sara Lee.
Deion Sanders
Dallas, $1 million
$1 MILLION to his church, the POTTER’S HOUSE, in Dallas, to build a youth center. Mr. Sanders plays for the Dallas Cowboys.
Tom III and Dottie Swift
Dallas, $1 million
$1 MILLION to the SHELTON SCHOOL AND EVALUATION CENTER, in Dallas, where their sons are enrolled. The Swifts own Swift Property, a real estate investment firm.
Robert Dan “Heavy Cat” and Ann Thompson
Lubbock, $1 million
$1 MILLION to TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY to fund graduate fellowships in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources. Mr. Thompson, an alum, is an agent at Massachusetts Mutual Insurance.
Eugene and Susan Vaughan
Houston, $1 million
$1 MILLION to VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, in Nashville, Tennessee, to pay for the expansion and renovation of the Sarratt Student Center. Mr. Vaughan, a Vanderbilt alumnus, is a founding principal of the investment counsel firm Vaughan, Nelson, Scarborough, and McCullough.
John and Lisa Walker
Houston, $1 million
$1 MILLION to TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY to endow a chair at its College of Business Administration. Mr. Walker, an alum, is the president of EnerVest Management.
Dennis and Cindy Wall
Lubbock, $1 million
$1 MILLION to TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY to endow a chair at its College of Education. Mr. Wall is the regional manager for Aetna Life Brokerage, an insurance and financial services agency. The Walls’ daughters are graduates of Texas Tech, as is Mr. Wall.
Harry and Kayla Weitlauf
Lubbock, $1 million
$1 MILLION to TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY to endow scholarships and a chair in the Department of Cell Biology and Biochemistry. The Weitlaufs (he, chair of the department; she, an alum of the university) are doctors.
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