Donors

$1 million and above
American Cancer Society Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Berrie *
Estate of G. Holbrook Barber Jr.
Ms. Jane Chace Carroll and Mr. Malcolm G. Chace
Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust Parkinson's Disease Foundation
Procter & Gamble *
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Ruane
Sherman Fairchild Foundation *
Madeline C. Stabile Foundation Inc.

$500,000 - $999,999
American Heart Association
Commonwealth Fund
Council for Tobacco Research
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Mrs. Fiona Druckenmiller
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Kaiser
Muscular Dystrophy Association
Pfizer Inc.
United States Surgical Corporation

$100,000 - $499,999
American Institute for Cancer Research Inc.
Anonymous
Arrow International Inc.
The Arthritis Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Ashkin *
Asthma & Allergy Foundation of America
Estate of Alice T. Baker
The Banbury Fund
Dr. George L. Becker Jr.
Arnold & Mabel Beckman Foundation
Dr. Paul J. Bilka *
Estate of Richard A. Blow
Mr. Jeffrey Boyko
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Gladys Brooks Foundation
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund
CaP Cure
Mrs. Maureen A. Cogan
Charles E. Culpeper Foundation
Charles A. Dana Foundation
Elizabeth K. Dollard Charitable Trust *
Dystonia Medical Research Foundation
Estate of Elleanor S. Ellinger
Essel Foundation Inc.
Friends of Incarnation Children's Center
Foundation for Heart Failure Research
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Gallen
Colleen Giblin Foundation
Arnold P. Gold Foundation
Mr. Albert F. Gordon
Mr. Albert H. Gordon
Mortimer J. Harrison Trust
John A. Hartford Foundation Inc.
The Helis Foundation
Hereditary Disease Foundation
Irma T. Hirschl Trust *
International Human Frontier Science Program
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Irving *
Janssen Pharmaceutica Research Foundation
Juvenile Diabetes Foundation
Mr. Stanley P. Kaufelt *
Mr. David H. Koch
Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
Emily Davie & Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation
Mrs. Lilyan G. Kreitchman
The Kresge Foundation
Leukemia Society of America
Estate of Frederick J. Lueders
Leon Lowenstein Foundation
Dr. Ines Mandl
March of Dimes
Mr. Leonard Marsh *
T. J. Martell Foundation for Leukemia, Cancer, and AIDS Research
G. Harold & Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation *
James S. McDonnell Foundation
Merck Company Foundation *
Henry & Lucy Moses Fund
Mr. John A. Mulheren
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Murphy *
Musee Du Petit Palais
National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression
National Retinitis Pigmentosa Foundation Inc.
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
Estate of Lorenz C. Nicol
Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation
Pacific Fruit Inc.
Ara R. Parseghian Medical Research Foundation
Partridge Foundation
Pediatric Cancer Foundation
Pharmacia & Upjohn Inc.
Mr. Homer Rees
Research Institute of Medical Sources Company
Research to Prevent Blindness Inc.
Roche Laboratories Inc.
Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund
Mr. Jack Rudin
May & Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc.
Schering-Plough Research Institute
Schwarz Pharma
The Beatrice & Samuel A. Seaver Foundation *
Prince Saud Shalan
Mr. Saud M. A. Shawwaf
Alexandrine & Alexander L. Sinsheimer Fund
Smart Family Foundation Inc.
Dr. Robert M. Sonneborn *
St. Giles Foundation *
Mrs. Anne Youle Stein *
Sulzberger Foundation Inc. *
Sulzer Innotec
J.T. Tai & Company Foundation Inc.
Henry & Marilyn Taub Foundation *
Van Ameringen Foundation Inc.
Dr. and Mrs. Clyde Wu and family *
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Yawney *
Mr. Marcos Zaltar

$50,000 - $99,999
Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association Inc.
American Diabetes Association
American Health Assistance Foundation
American Parkinson Disease Association
American Skin Association
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association
Arthritis Foundation
Mrs. Katharine J. Baker
Sol & Margaret Berger Foundation
Estate of Frank E. Beube
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Cancer Research Institute
Chiroscience Limited
Elizabeth Marie DiBella Memorial Foundation
Charles Edison Fund *
EJLB Foundation
John E. Fetzer Memorial Trust Fund
GE Medical Systems
Frank Gillespie Fund
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
Estate of Frederick W. Harsen *
Howmedica Inc.
Immunex Corporation
International Anesthesia Research
The Helen and Martin Kimmel Foundation
Estate of George Harold Kojac
Dr. Burton J. Lee III; Julie Gould Fund *
Mrs. Helaine Heilbrunn Lerner *
Mrs. Margaret Lesse *
Eli Lilly and Company Foundation
Thomas J. Lipton Company
Mr. David S. Loeb *
Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Foundation
The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience *
Mellam Family Foundation
Morgan Guarantee Trust Company of New York
Myoclonus Research Foundation
NAMI Research Institute
New York Academy of Medicine
Nextran
Mr. Stephen A. Ollendorff
Open Society Institute
Mrs. Audrey Wallace Otto
Elsa U. Pardee Foundation
Robert L. Patterson & Clara Guthrie Trust
Mr. Bruce Paul The Pew Charitable Trust
Mr. Harvey Picker; The Branta Foundation
The William F. Quarrie Trust
Radiological Society of North America
Estate of Della Rothenberg
Estate of Robert J. Ruby
Louis and Rachel Rudin Foundation Inc.
The Sallie Foundation Inc.
Charles Slaughter Foundation
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
SmithKline Beecham Pharm!ceuticals
Solvay Pharmaceuticals
Mr. Harvey Sorkin
Mr. Peter V. Tishman
The V Foundation
Valcor Engineering Corporation
VZV Research Foundation
Estate of Cornell Woolrich
Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories
ZW Biomedical Research AG

* includes partial payment on a larger pledge

A Foundation Is Built

Columbia's partnership with private philanthropy dates as far back as the founding of the original college. Columbia's predecessor, King's College, sprang from the patronage of King George II of England, whose royal grant in 1754 was allocated to the "Instruction of Youth in the Learned Languages and the Liberal Arts and Sciences." Slightly more than a decade later, in 1767, a partnership of private benefactors encouraged the college to form a pioneering medical faculty.
Though consisting of only six professors and three students, the budding medical school was the first in the American colonies to confer the Doctor of Medicine degree. Almost two centuries later, one partnership between mother and son generated a second alliance of historic importance. Anna M. Harkness and Edward S. Harkness, leading members of New York society, chose Columbia University and the Presbyterian Hospital as recipients of a 22-acre parcel of land in northern Manhattan.	Edward Harkmess
Edward Harkness proposed this site as the birthplace of a new kind of medical institution, combining education, research, and patient care at a single location. His vision, and the gift that he and his mother made, succeeded in joining university and hospital to create Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, the first academic medical center in the world. Once the new medical complex was in place, other benefactors came forward. Among them was businessman William Black, whose gift built the William Black Medical Research Building. It soon proved too small to accommodate all the critical scientific studies carried out at the medical school, and the university sought assistance from another partner, Dr. Armand Hammer. As a P&S graduate who left medicine to become an oil tycoon, Dr. Hammer agreed to provide funds for construction of the Julius and Armand Hammer Health Sciences Center. Both the Black and Hammer buildings remain essential to the P&S infrastructure and remind us that today's successes are essentially the end products of past collaborations. Above: Dr. Armand Hammer in front of the Julias and Armand Hammer Health Sciences Center in 1989. Partnerships Today The College of Physicians & Surgeons received $65,148,087 in major gifts from private sources during 1996-97. Most of those gifts were made with the hope of improving the well-being of society, but each may facilitate only one or two steps on the journey to that goal. Because both the donor and the scientist care so much about reaching a destination that can seem very far away, it is important for them to be good traveling companions. Finding the right match for partners among the many funding opportunities at P&S is the job of P&S's fund-raising partnership, the Alumni Office and the Office of Development. Together, they provide the services that bring the needs of science to the attention of philanthropy. During the past year, for instance, under their combined guidance, six new endowed professorships were established at P&S, bringing the total to 71, and raising expectations that the college will have 100 academic chairs in place by 2003. Such endowments are expected to provide perpetual annual income, supporting departmental objectives far beyond the lifetime of the donor, the chair's honoree, or the person holding the chair at the time of its establishment. Among the new chairs, two went to the Department of Medicine. The first, supporting osteoporosis studies, is named for the late Madeline Stabile (see Legacy Strengthens Research), whose family's foundation also established the Tony Stabile Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Osteoporosis in 1996. A gift from Dr. Robert Sonneborn and his wife, Hortense, endowed the department's second chair, the Dr. Robert Sonneborn Professorship in Medicine. The Department of Neurology honored Dr. Lewis P. Rowland's years of leadership by naming a professorship for its chairman, which was made possible by gifts from many friends, colleagues, and patients, as well as a major contribution from the Lucy Moses Foundation. The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery completed an endowment for the Robert A. Carroll Professorship in Hand Surgery with welcome rapidity, thanks to the generosity of Dr. Carroll's family. In psychiatry, the Dollard Foundation established the Elizabeth K. Dollard Chair to address issues arising at the interface of medicine, ethics, law, and society. Urology was the recipient of funds from the Mortimer J. Harrison Trust for Cancer Research to establish a chair bearing that name for prostate cancer research and treatment. The Alumni Office and its more than 6,000 partners in the P&S Alumni Association work together on a continuing basis to raise money for special projects at the school. Each year, letters of solicitation to alumni bring in funds of up to several million dollars that are put to many diverse uses. An entire class once combined its donations to endow a chair that celebrated the merits of the teaching they had enjoyed. Other P&S alumni, grateful for the quality of their own medical education, provide scholarship money to pooled funds or create their own awards. The 1996-97 P&S Alumni Annual Fund reported nearly $10 million given to the medical school by and through alumni and their estates. The success of the campaign is a credit to the leadership of the late Abbie I. Knowlton'42, chairwoman of the fund for 15 years. Extraordinary as the remarkable generosity of the P&S alumni and friends was during the past year, even more impressive is the fact that it represents a sustained giving level for P&S over the past several years. Few schools can boast such a high level of loyalty and pride in their alumni body, the foundation on which so many lasting and fruitful partnerships have been built. When alumni, or other friends of the medical school, choose to enter into a planned giving partnership with P&S, both the donor and the institution receive special returns. Paul J. Bilka'43, who attended P&S on a full scholarship during World War II, wanted to give back in kind to the school that set him on the path to his successful career as a rheumatologist. He created a charitable remainder annuity that will, eventually, be the foundation of a P&S scholarship fund named for himself and his wife, Madge. During his lifetime, Dr. Bilka receives all income from the principal of his trust, which is invested by Columbia. With his 1996-97 contribution of $100,000, the trust now totals more than half a million dollars. Judith Sulzberger'49 is another graduate of P&S who chose to enter a long-term collaboration with her alma mater. After retiring from medical practice, Dr. Sulzberger found that her fascination with science remained unquenchable and returned to the college as an adviser for Columbia's genome center. She sees the new center as a crucial component in the worldwide reshaping of biomedicine based on genetic data. When the effort seemed to flounder from temporary budget problems, she offered much needed start-up funding. Her gift kept the project alive until the National Institutes of Health awarded P&S a major grant for the center. Dr. Sulzberger's ongoing partnership is integral to the center's rising success, which, after expanding its programs university-wide last year, attracted long-term support from a prominent industrial partner (see Genetics Research Increases Treatment Possibilities). Some partnerships are distinguished by the irresistible force of their mission, a dedication so strong that it attracts additional donors to support their cause. When the immensely talented opera star Cecilia Bartoli wanted to thank P&S neurosurgeon Dr. James G. McMurtry III for his kindness and skillful attention to her family, she chose a splendid gift that would be uniquely hers to give. Ms. Bartoli offered to perform a benefit at Carnegie Hall in the fall of 1997, with all proceeds going to the endowment of an academic chair supporting brain tumor research and named in honor of Dr. McMurtry. Her determination and enthusiasm were contagious. Funds needed simply to initiate such a major event soon came from Edward and Susan Yawney and Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Gallen, two other families with reason to be grateful to Dr. McMurtry. The new partners made major gifts to cover all expenses for the gala, thereby increasing the probability that Ms. Bartoli's dream of honoring Dr. McMurtry and furthering brain cancer research will come true. P&S's most prominent partner for the past year was Russ Berrie, who with his wife, Angelica, gave financial assistance sufficient to complete an important new research building and to develop a center in that building for comprehensive diabetes treatment (see A New Home for Research and Diabetes Care). Theirs was an exceptional gift. Yet the Berries, like Cecilia Bartoli, gave even more. Their philanthropy became a catalyst that strengthened and drew new members to a Columbia partnership of families already focused on progress for diabetes treatment. JoAnn and Joseph Murphy, who lead that group, have brought endless energy to the sponsorship of better diabetes research, education, and patient care. When two of their five children were diagnosed with diabetes, the Murphys took action, helping to establish a local chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. Then they sought new partners from the world of biomedical expertise and are now co-chairs of the Health Sciences Diabetes Advisory Committee at P&S. In 1996-97, not only Russ and Angelica Berry, but also Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Carrus, as well as members of the Ashkin family, joined the Murphys to make significant gifts that will enhance programs at the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center. In 1996, Drs. Richard Mayeux and Michael Shelanski made new friends and partners, who helped them extend existing funding from the NIH for Alzheimer's disease research and to draw interest from other new donors. The Henry and Marilyn Taub Foundation, recognizing the importance of investigations already under way at Columbia, made a three-year pledge to establish the Taub Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research. Their generosity not only provided a solid basis for this vital research, but also was fundamental in leveraging important additional backing for the cause from the Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Foundation. Diseases such as Alzheimer's, HIV-AIDS, or any cancer cause such widespread concern that they are a constant focus for fund raising. But many diseases go almost completely unrecognized and very few major gifts are made to help improve their treatment. During the past fiscal year, however, two patients at P&S who had been treated for peripheral neuropathy--a common, but little understood condition that can deaden sensation and physical response all over the body--teamed up to provide neurologist Dr. Norman Latov with new funding for research in this area. Peter V. Tischman and David Loeb wanted to become personally involved in changing the outlook for patients who suffer from this disease. Their joint gift will enable Dr. Latov to make new discoveries that could eventually help thousands of people. Collaborations with private philanthropists in 1996-97 intensified research enterprise on several fronts at P&S. The Molecular Cardiology Program grew with welcome financial assistance from the Kaiser Family Foundation in honor of Allan Schwartz'74. The emotional needs of children will be better served through the Ruane Center for Childhood Disorders, an undertaking established with William and Joy Ruane's investment in work directed by Dr. David Shaffer, Irving Philips Professor of Child Psychiatry and director of the division of child psychiatry at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Among the strongest and longest lasting partnerships that P&S has shared over the years are those with Herbert and Florence Irving, the Rudin family's foundations, and the Gold Foundation. Mr. and Mrs. Irving have been mainstays of support at Columbia-Presbyterian for decades, accumulating a history of generosity unrivaled at the medical center (see Ongoing Relationship Aims for End of Cancer). The Rudin foundations invest across many areas of the medical school, offering their assistance where it is most needed. The Gold Foundation is dedicated to infusing the teaching and practice of medicine with new attention to compassion for those undergoing treatment (see Symbols of Compassion). During 1996-97, P&S received $500,000 from the Rudin foundations and another $200,000 from the Gold Foundation. The largest and most inclusive partnership in which P&S participates is the Columbia-Presbyterian Health Sciences Advisory Council. The group of 70 distinguished men and women give their time, their interest, and their financial support to assist in maintaining the medical center's worldwide reputation for unsurpassed quality in education, research, and patient care. Council members, who usually contribute to a personal area of medical interest, also give annually to the Dean's 21st Century Fund. This flexible resource supports faculty leadership, provides student aid, helps to build and repair the shared physical infrastructure of the medical school, makes it possible to acquire new technology, and gives added assistance to cutting-edge research. The 21st Century Fund is also the financial reserve that can be called upon to meet unforeseen challenges and take advantage of unexpected opportunities. Continuing education is a vital part of any physician's life and academic medical centers hold the responsibility for making such programs accessible. The expense of seminars, conferences, and classes would be prohibitive for medical centers without their partners in industry. Last year, pharmaceutical and medical device corporations provided $910,383 in assistance, making it possible for P&S to present the most comprehensive continuing education available to the medical community.