…simply… Read More in Timeline Donald and Ruth Weber Goodman Perpetuating Life-Saving Medical Care In October 2000, Donald Goodman, a retired dentist, returned to his Pepper Pike home after his morning exercise and abruptly collapsed on the floor. After being rushed to University Hospitals of Cleveland, he was diagnosed with acute… Read More in Timeline On January 3, 1914, the day after the board of the Cleveland Trust bank…
…ols commissioned by the Cleveland Foundation. Ayres’s critical report resulted in a number of changes within the school system. At the outbreak of U.S. involvement in World War I, Lt. Col. Ayres volunteered to lend the Russell Sage Foundation’s statistical expertise to the Council of National Defense. After the war he moved to Cleveland, where he served for 26 years as vice president and chief economist of the Cleveland Trust bank….
…ared a curriculum for introducing the teaching of hygiene that was later adopted for all junior high schools in Cleveland. She was a board member of the Child Health Association and the Eliza Jennings Home. Like his mother, Harvey Hobson also graduated from Western Reserve (B.A., 1934; LL.B., 1936). After earning his law degree, he joined the firm of Thompson, Hine & Flory. He was a member of the board of overseers for the WRU law school and…
…enriching experiences and caring adults. The Treu-Mart Youth Development Fellowship, a professional development program initiated in 2004 by the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and now housed at the university’s Weatherhead School of Management, strengthens the community’s capacity to produce positive outcomes for its youth. The program has introduced dozens of area agencies that work with…
…epartment to observe procedures, ask questions and review documents. By the spring of 1980, the Operations Improvement Task Force (headed by Eaton Corporation chair and chief executive officer E. Mandell de Windt, who had recruited Voinovich to run) had produced more than 800 recommendations. These ranged from computerizing the city’s record-keeping to amending the city charter to provide a four-year term for the mayor. The Voinovich…
…, the Case School of Applied Science, concluded that the two institutions should be merged into a municipal university to rival those in New York, Boston and Chicago. Because of alumni pride in the independence of their alma maters, the two schools deferred federation until 1967. To signal its continuing strong support for the union, the Cleveland Foundation awarded its first-ever $1 million grant in 1971 to Case Western Reserve University…
…-commissioned recreation survey, completed in 1919, recommended improvements in the variety of wholesome leisure-time activities available to Clevelanders. Goff had already hired a survey director, Allen T. Burns, whom he recruited from Pittsburgh, where in 1907 the Russell Sage Foundation, a newly formed national philanthropy dedicated to supporting social science research, had commissioned an influential study of living and working conditions…
…ould put this talent to use at Cleveland’s National Acme Company, a major maker of machine tools, becoming president in 1926 and increasing business by 300 percent. That number soared to 1,100 percent after the outbreak of WWII. He continued as president until age 82, also serving on the boards of other companies and as president of the A. M. McGregor Home and Holden Arboretum. A 1944 profile of Chapin in the Plain Dealer labeled him a “hopeless…
Title VIII (the “Federal Fair Housing Act”) of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, signed by President Johnson a week after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., advanced the struggle for integration taking place in Cleveland’s eastern suburbs and elsewhere across the nation. The March on Washington, August 28, 1963, at which Martin Luther King Jr. called upon the nation to make good on democracy’s promise of social and economic freedom for…
…d to Cleveland and joined the manufacturing company founded by his father. In 1929, he formed the John C. Virden Company, which became one of the nation’s leading manufacturers of electrical lighting fixtures. During WWII, Virden was regional director of the War Production Board and in 1946 served as central field commissioner for Europe in the Office of Foreign Liquidation Commissioner. In that same year, he was elected a director of…