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
George C Hixon	Phil Gramm, Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush, Oliver North
Clive Runnells	Phil Gramm, Larry Pressler, Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush
Ross Farnsworth Sr	Phil Gramm, Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush, Oliver North
Harris Rosen	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Eugene Clay Shaw Jr, Connie Mack III, Republican National Committee, George H W Bush, Elaine Bloom
Forrest E Hoglund	Phil Gramm, Republican National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush
Michael Keiser	Phil Gramm, Connie Mack III, Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Jim Lightfoot
Henry A Rosenberg Jr	Phil Gramm, Republican National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush
Steve Wynn	Eugene Clay Shaw Jr, Republican National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Bob Graham
Emanuel Joshua Friedman	Larry Pressler, Republican National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Bob Graham, Thomas Lee Strickland, George H W Bush
Gay Hart Gaines	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Eugene Clay Shaw Jr, Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush
Jeremy Jacobs Sr	Eugene Clay Shaw Jr, Republican National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Bob Graham, George H W Bush
Jorge A Dominicis	Connie Mack III, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Bob Graham, Carrie Meek, Elaine Bloom, Javier D Souto
Joseph Rogers Jr	Phil Gramm, Connie Mack III, Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush
Bernie Marcus	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Phil Gramm, Larry Pressler, Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee
Joseph B Gildenhorn	Phil Gramm, Larry Pressler, Republican National Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Oliver North, John W Warner
J Morton Davis	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Larry Pressler, Republican National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush
Judy Black	Phil Gramm, Larry Pressler, Republican National Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush, John W Warner
Dean L Buntrock	Phil Gramm, Connie Mack III, Larry Pressler, Republican National Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush
Kenneth J Feld	Vito John Fossella, Eugene Clay Shaw Jr, Republican National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Republican Party of Florida, Bob Graham
Ivor Massey Jr	Phil Gramm, Connie Mack III, Larry Pressler, George H W Bush, Oliver North, John W Warner

Donor

Common Recipients

George C Hixon

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

Clive Runnells

Phil Gramm, Larry Pressler, Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush

Ross Farnsworth Sr

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

Harris Rosen

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Eugene Clay Shaw Jr, Connie Mack III, Republican National Committee, George H W Bush, Elaine Bloom

Forrest E Hoglund

Phil Gramm, Republican National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush