Sure we all know Richard Mellon Scaife and the conservative causes he supports. But this item from today's Pittsburgh Post Gazette shows that there was another Scaife who was apparently cut from a different cloth.
"Mellon heiress left behind $324 million
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
By Rebekah Scott, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Details of the estate of Mellon heiress Cordelia Scaife May are emerging in Westmoreland County court..."
Here are some of the organizations to which she left her fortune.
"...the Pittsburgh Zoological Society, the Center for Community Interest, Pennsylvania Environmental Council, Earth Action Network, the bird-banding project at Carnegie Institute's Powdermill Nature Reserve, and the Association for Voluntary Surgical Contraception. "