Henry Townley Heald
Henry Townley Heald (1904–1975) was the first president of Illinois Institute of Technology and the Ford Foundation.
Career
[edit]Heald was president of Armour Institute of Technology from 1937 to 1940, at which time it became the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT); he served as its president until 1952.[1] He is credited with bringing architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to Chicago in 1938 to direct IIT's architecture program.[2] 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.[3]
He left IIT in 1952 to become president of New York University. In 1956 he became the president of the Ford Foundation, where he served until 1965.
Honors and legacy
[edit]He appeared on the cover of Time in 1957. In 1959, Heald was awarded the Hoover Medal, which recognizes civic and humanitarian achievements by engineers. A scholarship at IIT is named after him.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Past Presidents". Illinois Institute of Technology. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
- ^ "Henry T. Heald". Illinois Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2011-12-28.
- ^ Nielson, Donald (2006). A Heritage of Innovation: SRI's First Half Century. SRI International. pp. F1-4. ISBN 978-0-9745208-1-0.
- ^ "First-Year Student Scholarships". Illinois Institute of Technology. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
External links
[edit]- A film clip "Longines Chronoscope with Dr. Henry T. Heald (September 15, 1952)" is available for viewing at the Internet Archive
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