…rsity, where he was a leader on two PAC championship basketball teams. He captained the team before graduating in 1986 with a degree in communications. Harris had deep roots in the city’s media communities, working in radio, newspapers, television and advertising before rising to lead WEWS’s news, information and entertainment operations. He served on the boards of several community and nonprofit organizations, including the Greater Cleveland…
…herself (Vassar, 1886) would make her own indelible mark on the city as one of 15 founders of the Federation for Charity and Philanthropy—a model for federated fund-raising organizations throughout America that evolved into today’s United Way. Married in 1894 to Frederick Harris Goff (1858–1923), a corporate lawyer who would also become president of a major bank in town—Cleveland Trust—and who would establish the Cleveland Foundation, Frances…
…Visitors Bureau of Greater Cleveland, Terminal Tower information center, $25,000 1982 Cleveland Institute of Art, renovation of the Factory building, $300,000 The Temple, major repairs of national landmark building, $53,000 Ruffing Montessori School, building program, $50,000 1983 WCPN, start-up capital and operating support, $300,000 Food Communities Organization of People, new Food Co-op facility, $50,000 Viaduct View, Inc., construction of…
…he 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 romanticist,” a lover of all things French—including Helen LaRue, the Minnesota-born woman of French heritage whom he married in 1899. In 1915, he designed a Normandy-style weekend chalet on the Chagrin River in Kirtland Hills, building much of its furniture in his own woodworking…
…Cleveland Homes proved unable to raise an additional $2 million required by the federal government. Nevertheless, during his brief tenure as chair of the housing corporation, Carter helped to lay the groundwork for the construction of the first three public housing projects in America. Before PWA decided in early 1934 to assume full responsibility for the first 1,028 units Cleveland Homes had planned to build, the housing corporation had…
…to enable it to serve those who were too ill, incapacitated or elderly to visit a library branch. CPL, which had been making books available to hospitals, other institutions and the blind with federal support, developed a first-of-its-kind program to deliver materials to shut-ins in their homes. The Judd Fund program is still in operation today….
…ls, museums, stadiums, a convention center and a medical technology showplace. The Cleveland Foundation supported many of these endeavors, typically by providing planning, site analysis or design grants or supplementing construction budgets with funding for public amenities. The foundation also facilitated improvements in downtown infrastructure and downtown transportation, providing planning grants for a county-wide Regional Transit Authority…
…levy to allow Cleveland’s Metropolitan Park Board to make its first purchases of parkland in outlying districts. The levy passed, and the park board set about assembling what has become one of America’s premier park systems. Today, the Cleveland Metroparks, which recorded more than 16 million recreational visits in 2012, encompasses the Metroparks Zoo and more than 22,000 acres of interconnected green space in 18 reservations. In 2013, the City…
The F. James and Rita Rechin Fund was the first donor-advised fund established at the Cleveland Foundation. “Our fund is modest in the worldly scheme of things,” said Jim Rechin, a retired TRW Inc. group vice president, at the time of the fund’s creation in 1985, “but to those on the receiving end, it’s very significant. And that makes us feel wonderful.” Natives of New York, the Rechins began creating a lasting philanthropic legacy as a young…
…he Army as a first lieutenant, Bank capably performed the duties of brevetted major during the Korean War and was awarded a Bronze Star. He knew no one when he arrived in Cleveland in 1957 to join Thompson, Hine & Flory. Today he is revered as one of the city’s most outstanding humanists and among the nation’s finest lawyers. Bank played a major role in the evolving design of the Cleveland Foundation’s governance structure and corporations,…