Thanks, I guess you all know me by now that I like to make simple matter complicated
I went ahead and select the Privileges, and the box ask me to provide the recipient show up for me to enter the detail:
and after I enter and confirm my Privileges selection, it did say "
Friend awarded with Altitude status"
and the gift account did get to E35K status right away.
So, the E50K status might work the same next week, will see who will get it then