Henry Townley Heald

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Henry Townley Heald (1904–1975) was a university and foundation president.

Career

Heald was president of Armour Institute of Technology from 1938 to 1940, when it became Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). He is credited with bringing architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to Chicago in 1938 to direct IIT's architecture program.^[1] 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.^[2]

He left IIT in 1952 to become president of New York University and later, the Ford Foundation. He appeared on the cover of Time in 1957 for his work at the Ford Foundation.

Legacy

A scholarship at IIT is named after him.^{[citation needed]}

References

↑ "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.

External links

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

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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Academic Programs and Institutes	Center for Sustainable Enterprise Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions Chicago-Kent College of Law Oyez Project Gas Technology Institute IIT Institute of Design IIT Physics Department IIT Research Institute IIT Stuart School of Business Institute for Food Safety and Health Institute on Biotechnology and the Human Future VanderCook College of Music

Buildings	Academic Campus S. R. Crown Hall McCormick Tribune Campus Center Rice Campus State Street Village

People	Alumni Faculty

Presidents	Frank W. Gunsaulus (1892–1921) Howard M. Raymond (1922–1932) Willard E. Hotchkiss (1933–1937) George N. Carman (1896–1936) Dugald C. Jackson, Jr. (1936–1938) Fred A. Rogers (1938–1940) Clarence L. Clarke (1938–1940) Henry Townley Heald (1937–1952) John T. Rettaliata (1952–1973) Maynard P. Venema (1973–1974) Thomas Lyle Martin, Jr. (1974–1987) Meyer Feldberg (1987–1989) Henry R. Linden (1989–1990) Lewis Collens (1990–2007) John L. Anderson (2007–)

Student life	Pi Nu Epsilon Student groups WIIT

Persondata
Name	Heald, Henry Townley
Alternative names
Short description	American university president
Date of birth	1904
Place of birth
Date of death	1975
Place of death

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