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June 1999
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Dennis O'Shea
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Largest Gifts to Johns Hopkins

This is a listing of the largest single gifts and pledges ever made to The Johns Hopkins University and/or to The Johns Hopkins Hosptial.

*$100 million -- Michael R. Bloomberg to the University for all of the academic divisions, the Milton S. Eisenhower Library, and student facilities on the Homewood campus, and to the Hospital and the University's School of Medicine for the cancer buildings inititative, completed 1998. (Mr. Bloomberg is a 1964 graduate of the Whiting School of Engineering and chair of the University Board of Trustees.)

*$50 million -- Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund to the University for the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences endowment, 1992. (Mr. Krieger is a 1928 graduate of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.)

*$20 million -- R. Champlin and Debbie Sheridan to the University for the Milton S. Eisenhower Library, 1994. (Mr. Sheridan is a 1952 graduate of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and a trustee of the University.)

*$20 million -- Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation to the Hospital for the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Building (clinical cancer building), 1995. (This is the largest single gift ever received by the Johns Hopkins Hospital.)

*$20 million -- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations to the University for the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health at the School of Public Health, 1999.

$17.7 million -- Glenn Stewart to the Hospital for unrestricted use, 1982.

*$17 million -- Whitaker Foundation to the University to create a biomedical engineering institute, 1998.

*$15 million -- Anonymous donor to the University for endowment and renovation of facilities in the basic sciences, School of Medicine, 1996. (The donor is an alumnus of the School of Medicine.)

$14.6 million -- Elizabeth Banks and her family to the University for unrestricted use, 1989.

$13 million -- The Hodson Trust to the University for a multi-use building on Homewood campus, 1999.

*$10 million -- Bunting Family to the Hospital for the Bunting Blaustein Building (cancer research building), 1995; announced in 1999 (George L. Bunting Jr. is trustee of the University and Johns Hopkins Medicine.)

*$10 million -- Lenox D. and Frances W. Baker to the University to create an endowed deanship in the School of Medicine, 1996. (Both Drs. Baker are 1963 graduates of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, and 1966 graduates of the School of Medicine, and Lenox Baker is a trustee of the University and of Johns Hopkins Medicine.)

*$10 million -- A. James Clark to the University for the construction of Clark Hall, a building for biomedical engineering on the Homewood campus, 1998. (Mr. Clark is a trustee of the University and of Johns Hopkins Medicine.)

*$10 million -- J. Barclay Knapp Jr. to the University to endow the James Barclay Knapp Deanship of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, 1999. (Mr. Knapp is a 1979 graduate of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and a University trustee.)

*$10 million -- Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation to the University for the Bunting Blaustein Building (cancer research building), 1999.

* Counts toward The Johns Hopkins Initiative campaign which ends June 30, 2000.

Updated July 28, 1999


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