An IRS auditor who said she was held back as a Jewish woman left $22 million in stock to Yeshiva University, a school she had no ties to

Anne Scheiber worked as an auditor at the Internal Revenue Service. J. Weekly reported that her highest salary there was $3,150 a year. In a letter to Yeshiva University's president, Rabbi Norman Lamm, she wrote that her career had been stymied because she was Jewish and a woman. She retired in 1943 or 1944. She lived alone in a rent-stabilised apartment in Manhattan. She died in January 1995 at 101. Her will left about $22 million, a portfolio of 140 securities including Bristol-Myers Squibb, Coca-Cola, Chrysler and Paramount, to Yeshiva University. She had no previous connection to the school. The bequest funds scholarships and loans for women at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and at Stern College. It was the second largest gift in the university's 109-year history. Money magazine's January 1996 cover story said she had turned $5,000 into $22 million from 1944, a 22 percent annual return. Her executor, Benjamin Clark, who knew her for 25 years, said she was investing well before that: her 1936 tax return showed $900 in dividends and about $3,000 in capital gains. That points to about $21,000 in stocks in 1936 and a return close to the market's. Her largest early winner was Schering Corp., later Schering-Plough. She rarely sold, which kept her capital gains tax and commissions low.