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...Ella Fondren has given far more than money to the causes she serves. Every Christmas she takes a load of silver dollars to the orphans of Waco, each week observes a "hospital day" when she tours the Methodist Hospital to find out if anything is needed. She has visited medical centers all over the U.S. to see if her own hospitals have the latest equipment, is always on hand for the annual Fondren Lectures at S.M.U. Says the Rev. Dawson Bryan, former pastor of St. Paul's Methodist Church in Houston: "She attends more committee meetings than anyone...
...spent a lifetime giving her time and money to Texas institutions, but in refreshing contrast to the flashier philanthropists of oildom, she has always insisted on staying quietly behind the scenes. Those who honored her last week at first despaired of getting her to the ceremony at all. Says Methodist Episcopal Bishop A. Frank Smith of Houston: "We practically had to drag her into the hall...
...knows exactly how much she has given (best estimate: more than $20 million), her bounty has been spread widely and well. Fondren money built the $500,000 S.M.U. library, furnished half the cost of the $2,000,000 library at Rice Institute. It helped build Houston's Methodist Hospital, and it also helps support Episcopal St. Luke's. It has done everything from building a gymnasium for the students of Houston's Kinkaid School to founding the Methodist Home (for orphans) in Waco and giving Houston's Texas Medical Center an Institute of Religion...