Doctor, LHS graduate, makes gift of $10 million value to UNC

by Staff report The Robesonian

Dr. Hugh 'Chip' McAllister Jr., a former Lumberton resident, recently donated $8 million in artwork and $2 million to the Ackland Museum and School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina. This piece is at the entrance of UNC Hospital.

Staff report

CHAPEL HILL A 1957 graduate of Lumberton High School, Dr. Hugh Chip McAllister Jr., recently donated $10 million in artwork and money to the University of North Carolina. The donation benefits the Ackland Art Museum and the McAllister Heart Institute at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.

The gift, which was announced on April 12, includes a bronze sculpture that now welcomes motorists at UNC Hospitals driveway.

Im told, McAllister said, with abstract art you never know the larger figure is the father, and the smaller is the child. Information is being passed from one to the other.

McAllister donated the sculpture, Next Generations II by Allan Houser, in honor of his father, Hugh McAllister Sr., who received a medical degree from UNC in 1935, and practiced obstetrics and gynecology in Lumberton. The two are the only father and son to serve as presidents of the UNC Medical Alumni Association and to receive the School of Medicines Distinguished Medical Alumni Award.

Dick Taylor, a graduate of UNC and member of the UNC Board of Governors, knew McAllister Sr.

His father was a gynecologist here for many years, said Taylor, who owns Taylor Insurance Agency. He was a very outstanding and prominent physician. I think I met his son once. His generosity is to be applauded.

The portion benefiting the Ackland Art Museum artwork valued at $5.5 million is the largest gift of art in the museums history. It includes works by 19th century painters Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran; examples by members of the Taos School, such as Oscar Berninghaus, E L. Blumenschein and Joseph Sharp; and contemporary sculpture by Willem de Kooning, Allan Houser, Jesus Moroles and Reuben Nakian. Several examples of American Indian pottery and textiles are also included.

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