<p>A recent $60 million donation by Edward Bass '68 will likely fund the renovation and construction of facilities for the sciences, University President Richard Levin said Sunday. </p>
<p>The gift - the second largest so far in the Yale Tomorrow capital campaign - brings Bass's individual contributions to the University to $100 million over his lifetime. The gift is one of five contributions of $50 million or more solicited during the two-year "quiet phase" of the campaign, Vice President for Development Inge Reichenbach said. The campaign, which was formally launched last month, has already raised $1.3 billion, 43 percent of its $3 billion goal. </p>
<p>While Bass, who co-chairs Yale Tomorrow, announced his gift to the campaign's executive committee last fall, the University had yet to announce the gift publicly. Only two of the five gifts - an anonymous $100 million contribution to the Yale School of Music, announced last year, and a $50 million gift from Maurice Greenberg for the Greenberg Yale-China initiative, announced last month - had previously been publicly acknowledged. Of the two remaining gifts, one is devoted to international purposes and the other, which will be received in a few years, is unrestricted, Levin said. </p>
<p>Levin said donors have various reasons for wanting the University to delay announcing gifts or for keeping gifts anonymous. </p>
<p>"I don't really question people who want to give 50 or 100 million dollars," he said. </p>
<p>The Basses, a prominent Texas family that originally made money in the oil business, have been among the largest contributors to Yale in its recent history. Two of Bass's brothers have also given large sums to the campaign. Robert Bass '71 and his wife Anne donated $13 million for the renovation of Cross Campus Library, and Sid Bass '65 contributed $20 million to finance the renovation of the Art and Architecture Building on York Street....</p>