That first gift also endowed sixteen scholarships and provided for operating expenses.
A gift to the Union College in 1946 endowed a summer research fellowship in Civil Engineering in his name.
His gifts have endowed a wing at the Worcester Art Museum, another at the Holy Cross Library and a day care center at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center.
A $6 million gift from the family of Jerome L. Greene, a philanthropist who died in 1999, created the laboratory and endowed the director's chair.
He said he expected the gift would also endow three or four chairs and support the compilation of a video archive of interviews with business leaders.
Two recent gifts to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, totaling $6.5 million, endowed the conductor's chair of the Pops and of the symphony's Youth Concerts.
The center, to be housed in Dodge Hall on the campus, will accommodate 200 undergraduate and graduate students a year, and the gift will endow a LeRoy Neiman professorship.
The gift will also endow a professorship.
The gift will endow a professorship at each of the institutions, which are about 45 miles apart.
Another gift of $1 million to the Kentucky Horse Park Foundation will endow the International Museum of the Horse with the W. Paul Little Cultural and Learning Center.