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Henry Townley Heald
Henry Townley Heald
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His father, Frederick DeForest Heald, was a distinguished plant pathologist. Henry Heald received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1923 from Washington State College.
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Under his leadership, the Foundation established programs in the arts, the physical sciences and engineering, and in demographics; expanded overseas programs to Africa, Latin America, Japan, and Australia; inaugurated major school and community programs in low-income city neighborhoods; stimulated the growth of noncommercial television; created the Educational Facilities Laboratories; and initiated a special and extremely valuable program of unrestricted grants to support the long-range development of private universities and colleges. The Foundation, under his able leadership, demonstrated, often in a brilliant and imaginative way, how much a great 120
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Dr. Heald's business affiliations included directorships of Equitable Life Assurance Society, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, United States Steel Corporation and Lever Brothers Company.
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