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
Betty Sembler	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Eugene Clay Shaw Jr, Connie Mack III, Larry Pressler, Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Florida, George H W Bush
George Steinbrenner III	Connie Mack III, Republican National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Republican Party of Florida, Bob Graham, George H W Bush
John Catsimatidis	Vito John Fossella, Connie Mack III, Republican National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Bob Graham, George H W Bush
Larry J Hochberg	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Eugene Clay Shaw Jr, Connie Mack III, Republican National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, John W Warner
Leonard Litwin	Vito John Fossella, Larry Pressler, Republican National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush
Amin J Khoury	Eugene Clay Shaw Jr, Connie Mack III, Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush
David S Mack	Eugene Clay Shaw Jr, Connie Mack III, Republican National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee
Edward A Brennan	Larry Pressler, Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Bob Graham, George H W Bush
Joyce Farmer	Phil Gramm, Republican National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Republican Party of Florida, Bob Graham, George H W Bush
Marlene Malek	Eugene Clay Shaw Jr, Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush, John W Warner
Gary L Wilson	Larry Pressler, Republican National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush
Mary Stewart Kohler	Vito John Fossella, Phil Gramm, Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush
Peter O'Donnell	Phil Gramm, Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush, Jim Lightfoot
Ronald L Platt	Connie Mack III, Larry Pressler, William Lehman, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Bob Graham, Carrie Meek
Herbert J Siegel	Vito John Fossella, Larry Pressler, Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush
Russell L Carson	Vito John Fossella, Eugene Clay Shaw Jr, Republican National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Thomas Lee Strickland
Sylvester Lukis	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Connie Mack III, William Lehman, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Bob Graham, George H W Bush
Melvin A Dow	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Phil Gramm, Larry Pressler, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Bob Graham, Thomas Lee Strickland
Edgar Bronfman Jr	Republican National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Bob Graham, Thomas Lee Strickland, George H W Bush
Colleen Fain	Vito John Fossella, Republican National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Bob Graham, Carrie Meek, Elaine Bloom

Donor

Common Recipients

Betty Sembler

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Eugene Clay Shaw Jr, Connie Mack III, Larry Pressler, Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Florida, George H W Bush

George Steinbrenner III

Connie Mack III, Republican National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Republican Party of Florida, Bob Graham, George H W Bush

John Catsimatidis

Vito John Fossella, Connie Mack III, Republican National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Bob Graham, George H W Bush

Larry J Hochberg

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Eugene Clay Shaw Jr, Connie Mack III, Republican National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, John W Warner

Leonard Litwin

Vito John Fossella, Larry Pressler, Republican National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush