Name Henry Heald | Awards Hoover Medal | |
Died 1975, Winter Park, Florida, United States | ||
Henry Townley Heald (1904–1975) was a university and foundation president.
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Career
Heald was president of Armour Institute of Technology from 1938 to 1940, when it became Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). He is credited with bringing architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to Chicago in 1938 to direct IIT's architecture program. He led a team that investigated the idea of a research institute on the west coast and made proposals that would result in the creation of SRI International.
He left IIT in 1952 to become president of New York University and later, the Ford Foundation. He appeared on the cover of Time in 1957 for his work at the Ford Foundation.
Legacy
A scholarship at IIT is named after him. Awarded the Hoover Medal in 1959.
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