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Vor 4 Tagen · The winner of the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Lifetime Achievement Award is Sam Peters. Sam is the current President of Release Marine and Marine Tables in Savannah, Georgia. Sam grew up in the Savannah area where his family had a millwork and door manufacturing business in the 1970s, specializing in historical reproductions.
Vor 5 Tagen · Kirk’s book does much to demolish the conventional view of Winthrop Rockefeller as a nonentity whose unhappy marriage and stormy divorce prompted him to leave New York and become a cattle rancher in Arkansas. What emerges instead is a portrait of an upper-class person who was something of a misfit in the world from which he came and found another one where he fit better as a result of the ...
Vor 4 Tagen · They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (born January 29, 1874, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.—died May 11, 1960, Tucson, Arizona) was an American philanthropist, the only son of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., and heir to the Rockefeller fortune, who built Rockefeller Center in New York City ...
Vor 23 Stunden · The political change of Arkansas from a solidly “Blue Democratic” state to a “Ruby Red Republican” state took several generations to happen but sped up exponentially in the past decade or so, the executive director of the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville said Friday.
Vor 4 Tagen · Laura Spelman Rockefeller (born September 9, 1839, Wadsworth, Ohio, U.S.—died March 12, 1915, Pocantico Hills, New York) was an American educator and philanthropist who was the wife of John D. Rockefeller of the famed Rockefeller family. Both of Spelman’s parents were active in social causes; her father, a wealthy businessman, was an ...
Vor 3 Tagen · By 1919 the Rockefeller General Education Board and the Rockefeller Foundation had paid out more than $5,000,000 to Johns Hopkins, Yale and Washington University in St. Louis medical schools. In 1919 John D. Rockefeller granted another $20,000,000 in securities, “for the advancement of medical education in the United States.” That would be comparable to about $340 million today, a huge sum ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Analysis: NPR citing sources targeting fossil fuel industry funded by similar donors. The Rockefeller Foundation helped launch NPR’s Climate Desk in 2022. Two Rockefeller funds, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Rockefeller Family Fund, are dedicating billions of dollars to fund a range of groups, including the Environmental Integrity ...
