DES MOINES, IA--(Marketwired - July 15, 2015) - Sammons Enterprises, Inc., parent company of Des Moines-based Sammons Financial Group, has donated $1.0 million to Drake University for the Sammons Endowed Professorship in Actuarial Science, a program that supports a new or existing professor of actuarial science and will be used to retain or attract outstanding faculty members.