who is raymond perlman?
Raymond G. and Ruth C. Perelman. Amount donated in 2011: $227.3-million. Biggest beneficiary: University of Pennsylvania. Donorsâ background: Mr. Perelman is chairman of RGP Holdings, which owns businesses in finance, manufacturing, and mining. Mr. Perelman, 94, and his wife, Ruth, who was 90 when she died last summer, pledged $225-million to the University of Pennsylvania to endow the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine. The Perelmans placed no restrictions on how the money should be used.