WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Two Jesuit-run Catholic universities have received the largest philanthropic gifts in their history, while a third has been given $8 million by the owners of the New Orleans Saints football franchise. Georgetown University in Washington received an $87 million endowment to support medical research at its medical center, while businessman and Fordham University alumnus Mario J. Gabelli donated $25 million to the New York school to expand student scholarships and faculty chairs and to create a new Center of Global Investment Analysis. The $8 million gift to Loyola University New Orleans from the Gayle & Tom Benson Charitable Foundation, run by the Saints owners, will be used to renovate a former library building to house the Tom Benson Jesuit Center and a chapel. The Georgetown endowment originated in a $1.2 million charitable trust established by the will of the late Harry J. Toulmin in 1965. His widow, Virginia, managed the trust for the next 45 years and grew it to its current value. She died June 13 at age 84. The gift will fund the Warwick Evans and Mary Mason Washington Evans Medical Research Endowment in honor of Harry Toulmin's grandparents.
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