50th Anniversary Honor Roll of Donors

Major Donations to ACOR, 1968–2018

$10 Million and Above

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
The United States Information Agency (USIA)/Bureau for Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA)
The United States Department of State

$500,000–$1 Million

The Joukowsky Family Foundation
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
USAID American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (ASHA)

$250,000–$499,999

Joy Hebert
The United States Department of Education

$100,000–$249,999

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Henry Christensen III and Constance Christensen
The Getty Foundation
The Samuel H. Kress Foundation
United Technologies
Judy and Hal Zimmerman

$50,000–$99,999

Mohammed Abduljawad
The American Schools of Oriental Research
The Cleveland H. Dodge Foundation
Bert and Sally de Vries
The Embassy of Canada to Jordan
Nancy Frederick

Louis L. Gonda and the Gonda Family Foundation
Bruce Gould
Edgar and Paula Harrell
George E. Mendenhall
S. Thomas Parker
The Selz Foundation

$25,000–$49,999

Roger and Aina Boraas
Nirmal and Ellen Chatterjee
Robert Coughenour
Richard M. DeVos
Anne M. Dunn
East-West Group, Ltd.
Harold and Carol Forshey
Harry Fowler
Jane Fletcher Geniesse and Robert L. Geniesse
Lawrence T. Geraty

Burton MacDonald and Rosemarie Sampson
Mobil Oil Corporation
Anne Cabot Ogilvy
John P. Oleson
Thomas R. Pickering
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
The Teagle Foundation
TRH Prince Raad Bin Zeid and Princess Majda Raad

$10,000–$24,999

Mohammed Asfour
William and Penelope Bardel
Biblical Research Foundation
Pierre and Patricia Bikai
Karen Borstad
The Canada Fund Organization
Joyce Chelberg
Citibank
Nicholas Clapp
Continental, Inc.
Miriam and Ralston Deffenbaugh
The Dick and Betsy DeVos Foundation
Jerry Fischer and John Turner
James Garland
Elizabeth Gebhard
Global Heritage Fund
Adib and Reem Habayeb
John H. Hall
F. Johnson
Cecily Klingman
Øystein and Asta Sakala LaBianca
P.E. MacAllister
Hazem Malhas

Margaret McCamish
Jenna Morton
Moors Myers
Randolph B. Old
Elizabeth Platt
Barbara A. Porter
Thomas Ragan
The Richard and Joan Scheuer Family Foundation
Donald Saunders
Thomas and Marilyn Schaub
Leila Sharaf
Shell Companies Foundation
Suha Shoman
Luther Soules III
John A. and Theresa Sprague
Wendy Steward
T.C. Swartz and TCS Expeditions
The Violet Jabara Charitable Trust
Miriam Welker
Peter and Penelope West
James R. and Margaret L. Wiseman
Zion Research Foundation

$2,500–$9,999

Anne H. Aarnes
Raouf Abujaber
Susan Ackerman
Michael Ameen
American Express
B. Anderson
Andrews University
Anonymous
Anonymous
Laird Barber
Mary Barker
Claire Bedat
Keith Beebe
Mary Ella Bell
Thomas and Francesca Bennett
Robert Boling
Martha Boling-Risser
Laurie Brand
Robin Brown
Joseph Bruder IV
Roger and Connie Brummel
Carlson Group, Inc.
James Cassanos
Cavaliere Foundation, Inc.
Central Bank of Jordan
B. C. Christensen
Douglas R. and Carmen Clark
Nancy Coinman
Steven Collins
Dorothy Conant
Lloyd Cotsen
The Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE)
The Cynthia Infantino Trust
Humberto Da Silveira
Said Darwazeh
P. M. Michèle Daviau
Fred Donner
Susan Downey
Elisabeth Dudley
Wesley and Virginia Egan
Endowment for Biblical Research
The Eugene and Emily Grant Family Foundation
Nancy Ferguson
Paul Fitzpatrick
Judy Flath
Friends of Archaeology and Heritage of Jordan
Daniel and Nancy Gamber
Roddy Garcia
Seymour Gitin
Edward W. and Peggy Gnehm
Mark Gravener
Grindlays Bank PLC
Sami and Lily Habayeb
Farid and Nancy Habib
Lewis and Gemma Hall
Jim Harpel
Carol Harper
Brooke B. and Philip J. Harrell
Nelson Harris
Eloisa Haudenschild
Doris Borthwick Heinemann
Laurel Hendrickson
Herman Miller, Inc.
Ellen Porter Honnet
Housing Bank
Alfred Howell
J. Huizenga
Steve and Cynthia Percak Infantino
International Resources Group (IRG)
Jacobs Engineering Group
Jordan-Gulf Bank
Widad Kawar
Morag Kersel and Yorke Rowan
Rami Khouri

James Knight
The Kyle Kelso Foundation
George and Carol Landes
Nancy Lapp
John Lee
Peter and Anna Levin
Thomas Levy
Hunter Lewis
Stephen Lintner
Joan Porter MacIver
Anthony Marshall
Michel Marto
The Mary King Estell Trust
David McCreery
Philip and Doris Miller
John Neerhout, Jr.
David Nickols
Northrop Corporation
Paul Ostergard
William Overstreet
Jean Peyrat
Dwight and Christina Porter
Diana Putman and Adam Messer
Walter Rast
Benjamin Rauch and Margaret Scott
Raytheon
Barbara Reeves
Ann Boon Rhea
Suzanne Richard
Austin Ritterspach
David and Sarah Roberts
Anne and Charles Roos
Russell Colgate Fund, Inc.
Bonnie Sampsell
Santa Fe International
Peter and Sylvia Sauer
Susan A. Sauer
Edwin Schick
Warren Schultz
Lee and Murray Seeman
Lola and Lita Semerad
Seven Wonders Travel
David Shaffer
Cynthia Shartzer
James Shea
Khalid Shoman
Neil Silberman
Sandra Smith
Squibb Middle East, S.A.
Herbert Stetzenmeyer
The Stewart A. Dunn Foundation
Sally Strazdins
Elizabeth Stryker
Yasser Tabbaa
Yassin Talhouni
Gough Thompson
Robert B. Trainer and Shirin Devrim Trainer
Warren Trepp
Christopher A. Tuttle
Alia Twal
Union Bank
University of California San Diego
Tony and Gail Vander Heide
Ronald Verdoorn
The Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation
Gladys Vocci
Bethany J. Walker
Fredrick Winnett
Deborah Winters and Daniel Onstad
Timothy Wirth
Woodward & Dickerson
Randy Younker
Nicola Zwaschka

$1,000–$2,499

Alexander Abraham
Ahmad and Sirine Abu Ghazaleh
Hayder Abu Jaber
Peggie Abujaber
Judith Adams
Susan Alcock
Mitchell Allen
American Schools of Oriental Research in Canada (CASOR)
American Women of Amman
Anacortes Sister City Association
Donna Antoon
Archaeological Institute of America
Talitha Arnold
Nabil Atalla
Stephen Bache
Roger Bagnall
Elizabeth Bartman
Bechtel Corporation
Leigh-Ann Bedal
Horton Beebe-Center
Robert and Mette Beecroft
John and Virginia Bennett
Augusta Bishop
Boeing Corporation
Gail Boesel
Leslie Boring
Doris Brigham
Melva Bucksbaum
Frances Cairncross
Calvin College and Calvin Seminary
Helen Cecil
Mohammad Chalabi
Sandra Chesrown
Caroline Chester and John McDonald
George and Emma Christopher
Geoffrey Clark
Gilbert Cleasby
Randall Cone
Carlton Cramp
Tom and Anne Crane
Curtis Dahleen
Caroline Davies
Piet de Klerk and Victoria Rubin de Klerk
Michel de Konkoly Thege and Harriette Resnick
Michel de Salaberry
Emme and Jonathan Deland
Vanessa Diebold
Susan Downey
The E. K. Zuckerman Foundation
Jessie Easton
Mary Emerson
Margaret Fallers
Christine Faltermeier
Ruth Farnham
Tim Ferrell
First Interstate Bank
Fleischmann Foundation
Debra Foran
Caroline Forgason
Robert Forney
Sumio Fujii
George Fuller
The Gambs Family Foundation
Meryle Gaston
George A. Fuller Company
Anna Gonosová
Carl Graesser
Nikolas E. Granger
Eugene Grant
Crawford Greenewalt, Jr.
Jeanne Griest
The Gruber Family Foundation
John Hale
Jane A. Hallaby
James Hargrove
Spencer Harper III
Matthew P. Harrell and Elizabeth Lowe Harrell
Charles Harris
Timothy Harrison
Harza Engineering
Ray Anita Hemphill
Donald Henry
Herman Smith Associates International
Valerie Hird
Harry and Adriana Hopper
Siegfried H. Horn Museum of Archaeology
Ruth Hughes
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)
Moawiyah Ibrahim
The Jacobs Family Foundation
Jeffrey and Anne-Marie Jannuzzo
William Jarvis
Yona Joest
Johnson Bible College
Cameo Jones
Jordan Kuwait Bank
Jordan Tourism Board
Jordan Valley Authority
JWM Production
Omar and Nancy Kader
Kosmo Kalliarekos
Virginia Kanick

Kawar Sons Co.
Donald Keller and Margaret Sablove
Dale Burchard Kenney and Gene Kenney
Norma Kershaw
Abdelelah Al Khatib
Emily King
Robert Kleinschmidt
Jim and Morley Knoll
Herbert Krosney
Landmine Survivors Network
Mary Ellen Lane
Eleanor Lawson
Albert Leonard
Billy Libby
Sara Lipscomb
Lockheed Corporation
Helen Lovejoy
The Malcolm Hewitt Weiner Foundation
Guillaume and Christine Malle
Lysbeth A. and Skye Marigold
Marriott International
The Martin
Gerald Mattingly
Marcia McHam
Anne Melvin
The Mereville Foundation
Eugene H. and Janet L. Merrill
Dale Meyers
Eric and Carol Meyers
Charles Miller
Noor Mulder-Hymans
National U.S.-Arab Chamber of Commerce
North Carolina State University
Peter Northouse
R. Olfenschmidt
San Orr
Eileen Page
J. Patterson
Jon Pearl
Megan Perry
Julie Peteet
Glen Peterman
Barbara Peterson
Petra International Banking Corporation
Jim Pickup
Marian Pillsbury
Susanne Pinkerton
Samuel Popkin
Richard D. Powell, Jr.
John Prinscott
Mary Raiser
Jennifer Ramsay
Lewis and Margaret Reade
Nancy Reynolds
Rockwell International
Gary Rollefson
Jonathan and Jeannette Rosen
Charles Rubinger
Kay Russell
Cheryl Salbtean
Sandra Scham
Norman Schiff
Denise Schmandt-Besserat
Wertheim Schroder
Charles Schutt
John Scott and Kelly Pine
John Scoville
Joe Seger
Alan Simmons
Herman Smith
Kathleen Smith
Pamela Smith
Patricia Smothers
Ted Smyth and Mary Breasted Smyth
Joseph Stanik
Stanley Consultants
Suzanne and Jaroslav Stetkevych
Ruth Anna Stolk
Paula Swart
TAMS, Inc
Jane Taylor
Tell Madaba Project
Henry Thompson
Britt Tidelius
TOMAC Foundation
Nancy Turck and Patrick Maley
Richard Undeland
University of Victoria
Gerald Vincent
David Voelter
The Wang Family Foundation
Makoto Watanabe
Webster Charitable Foundation
Thomas and Theresa Whetstine
Russell Wilkinson
Grant Wilson
Donald Wimmer
The Young Presidents’ Organization and World Presidents’ Organization (YPO/WPO)

ACOR wishes to express its utmost gratitude to the donors who have supported us throughout our first 50 years in Jordan. We could not have made it this far without you.

If you have a question about your donation history or a correction to your donor recognition, please contact us at acor@acorjordan.org.

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