…y respect the equal of her husband, Frederick Harris Goff. A woman of character and intelligence, she came from a family that helped to settle the portion of northeastern Ohio called the… Read Bio in Timeline Dorothy Ruth Assistant to the Foundation’s First Four CEOs Dorothy Ruth was, for many Clevelanders, the face of the Cleveland Foundation for more than 40 years. A graduate of Flora Stone Mather College of Western Reserve University,…
…Civic Affairs 1988 Cleveland Council on World Affairs Dev.& expand ed.progs.: CPS $25,000 Education 1988 Cleveland Development Foundation New Cleveland Campaign $500 Civic Affairs 1988 Cleveland Development Foundation Phases II & III: mktg.strategy $100,000 Economic Development 1988 Cleveland Development Foundation Inner-City School Fund $500,000 Education 1988 The Cleveland Education Fund General support $500 Administrative 1988 The…
…Annual Report Mass Polio Immunizations PACE’s School Library Campaign 1963 1963 Annual Report John Sherwin Start-up of Cuyahoga Community College The Cleveland Foundation ranks as the country’s largest community trust 1964 1964 Annual Report Assets surpass $100 million Establishing a Groundbreaking Interracial Forum First significant bequest for arts and culture received 1965 1965 Annual Report Bringing Public Television to Cleveland…
…om the Evergreen Cooperatives underpins the feasibility of this potentially revolutionary undertaking. The initiative’s most visible accomplishment is Uptown, a high-density, mixed-use superblock at the eastern edge of the CWRU campus. The Cleveland Foundation set the redevelopment in motion with a $1 million grant for urban design services and made a series of loans totaling $4 million to support the initial phase of construction of the $150…
…Sarah Lawrence College, she married Howard M. Hanna III in 1935; a year later he would die of a brain tumor. She served with the American Red Cross as director of an Army Air Forces rest facility in England during World War II. It was at the headquarters of the U.S. Eighth Army Air Force that she met Lt. Royal Firman Jr. They married in 1944. In addition to being a fine horsewoman and running a farm in Kirtland, Ohio, Firman devoted her…
…rd member of the Cleveland Institute of Art and Holden Arboretum. He remained closely tied to his alma mater, becoming a Case trustee in 1949 and serving as acting president from 1958 to 1961. He advocated for the consolidation of Case and Western Reserve University, and the two institutions merged in 1967 as Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). In 2010, the Kent H. Smith Charitable Trust donated $10.5 million to CWRU’s new university center,…
…ment came with the understandable qualifier that he would serve “as long as he could”). He played his most significant leadership role in directing an effort to redevelop Cleveland’s slums that led to the Depression-era construction of the first public housing in America. Carter’s path to the Cleveland Foundation was similar to that of the foundation’s first director. Like Raymond Moley, who was six years his senior, Carter was born in rural,…
…hat same year joined Keithley Instruments, holding various positions in manufacturing, sales, marketing and division management. In 2010, the company was acquired by Danaher Corporation. Keithley is a member of the board of trustees of Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and the visiting committee of the Case School of Engineering. He also serves on the advisory council of Cornell University’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He…
…nstead, graduating from Holy Cross College (B.A., 1920) and Western Reserve University (LL.B., 1923), and establishing a private practice. In 1930, he was appointed assistant county prosecutor, resigning seven years later to run for a municipal judgeship. He lost, vowing never again to enter a race for public office. But that decision would change. When Frank Lausche was elected Cleveland mayor in 1941, he appointed Burke as his law director….
…g local resources and promoting local giving through the creation of a community foundation. He spoke with all who approached him for information, granted interviews, and addressed civic groups, bar association meetings and trust bankers’ conferences. The editor of Trust Companies became an overnight ally and regularly published articles on the formation and activities of community foundations. Because of the American banking industry’s high…