Henry Townley Heald

Henry Townley Heald (1904–1975) was the first president of Illinois Institute of Technology and the Ford Foundation.

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Career

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

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

^ "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

A film clip "Longines Chronoscope with Dr. Henry T. Heald (September 15, 1952)" is available for viewing at the Internet Archive

Academic offices
Preceded by Clarence L. Clarke	President of the Illinois Institute of Technology 1937–1952	Succeeded by John Rettaliata
Preceded by Harry Woodburn Chase	President of New York University 1952–1956	Succeeded by Carroll Vincent Newsom

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This page was last edited on 15 September 2023, at 20:21

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