LittleSis: George Batchelor

Aviation entrepreneur and philanthropist who is the namesake of the Batchelor Children's Research Institute at the University of Miami's School of Medicine. A pilot for 65 years, Batchelor founded Arrow Air in California in 1947 and moved it to Florida in 1964. He also founded Batch Air, an aviation maintenance firm, and International Air leases, which bought and sold aircraft. Batchelor is believed to have donated more than $100 million to South Florida charities. His $15 million gift to the University of Miami Medical School was used to build the build the Batchelor Children's Research Institute. Other benefactors included Metrozoo - which named a cheetah, King George, after him - the Miami Museum of Science, Community Partnership for the Homeless and public television. In 1985, a plane leased from Arrow Air crashed in Gander, Newfoundland, killing all 248 U.S. military personnel on board. The Federal Aviation Administration then grounded 10 other Arrow DC-8s. The company lost its business from the Air Force and soon filed for bankruptcy. Born in Shawnee, Okla., the American Indian descendant married five times, most recently three weeks ago to Amanda Rodgers, 41, of Houston. He is survived by his wife and two sons, Jonathan and Douglas; stepdaughters Amy and Sarah Thibodeaux; brothers Jim and Robbin; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Donor	Common Recipients
Trammell S Crow	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Phil Gramm, Larry Pressler, Republican National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush, Jim Lightfoot
Lanny Griffith	Phil Gramm, Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush, Jim Lightfoot, Oliver North, John W Warner
Theodore Cutler	Phil Gramm, Connie Mack III, Larry Pressler, Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Bob Graham, George H W Bush
Richard M Frank	Phil Gramm, Connie Mack III, Larry Pressler, Republican National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Bob Graham, George H W Bush
Mel Sembler	Vito John Fossella, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Eugene Clay Shaw Jr, Phil Gramm, Connie Mack III, Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee
Louis Beecherl Jr	Phil Gramm, Connie Mack III, Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush, Jim Lightfoot, John W Warner
C Boyden Gray	Phil Gramm, Connie Mack III, Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush, Oliver North, John W Warner
Edward W Easton	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Eugene Clay Shaw Jr, Phil Gramm, Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Bob Graham, George H W Bush
Edward C Levy Jr	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Eugene Clay Shaw Jr, Phil Gramm, Connie Mack III, Larry Pressler, Republican National Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Jim Lightfoot
James France	Eugene Clay Shaw Jr, Connie Mack III, Republican National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Bob Graham, Carrie Meek
Michael M Adler	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Connie Mack III, William Lehman, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Bob Graham, Thomas Lee Strickland, Carrie Meek, Elaine Bloom
Herb Kelleher	Phil Gramm, Larry Pressler, William Lehman, Republican National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Bob Graham, George H W Bush
John K Castle	Vito John Fossella, Eugene Clay Shaw Jr, Phil Gramm, Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush, John W Warner
Leonard Abess	Eugene Clay Shaw Jr, Phil Gramm, William Lehman, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Republican Party of Florida, Bob Graham, Carrie Meek, Elaine Bloom
C Douglas Dillon	Vito John Fossella, Eugene Clay Shaw Jr, Phil Gramm, Connie Mack III, Republican National Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush, Bill Grant
Edward A Lozick	Eugene Clay Shaw Jr, Phil Gramm, Connie Mack III, Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush, Oliver North
Wayne L Berman	Vito John Fossella, Eugene Clay Shaw Jr, Phil Gramm, Connie Mack III, Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush
Robert H Pickens	Phil Gramm, Connie Mack III, Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush, Jim Lightfoot, Oliver North
Harold Simmons	Phil Gramm, Connie Mack III, Larry Pressler, Republican National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Jim Lightfoot, Oliver North
John C Whitehead	Vito John Fossella, Phil Gramm, Connie Mack III, Larry Pressler, Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush

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Common Recipients

Trammell S Crow

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Phil Gramm, Larry Pressler, Republican National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush, Jim Lightfoot

Lanny Griffith

Phil Gramm, Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush, Jim Lightfoot, Oliver North, John W Warner

Theodore Cutler

Phil Gramm, Connie Mack III, Larry Pressler, Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Bob Graham, George H W Bush

Richard M Frank

Phil Gramm, Connie Mack III, Larry Pressler, Republican National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Bob Graham, George H W Bush

Mel Sembler

Vito John Fossella, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Eugene Clay Shaw Jr, Phil Gramm, Connie Mack III, Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee