Caltech Mourns the Loss of Eli Broad, 1933–2021 May 01, 2021
Eli Broad, founder of SunAmerica Inc. and KB Home, former member of the Caltech Board of Trustees, and a Life Member of the Caltech community passed away on April 30, 2021. He was 87 years old.
An entrepreneur, civic leader, and philanthropist who earned distinction as a patron of Los Angeles, Broad was an influential advocate for and generous benefactor of life sciences research, public education, and the arts. Throughout his life, he worked to create and foster new businesses, education organizations, scientific research institutions, and museums.
At Caltech, Broad s commitment was most evident through his enduring leadership on the Caltech Board of Trustees and his longstanding and continued investments in the Institute. In partnership with his wife Edythe, Broad donated more than $40 million to the biological sciences at Caltech through the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation. Their generosity helped to establ
Eli and Edythe Broad. Photo courtesy of the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation.
Billionaire art collector, philanthropist, and entrepreneur Eli Broad a towering figure in the cultural scene of the United States, and most of all, in his adopted hometown of Los Angeles has died at 87. His reign culminated with the founding of the Broad, a contemporary art museum showcasing the collection he and his wife, Edythe Broad, built together, which opened in 2015.
In his cultural pursuits, business activities, and education and science philanthropy, Broad proudly proclaimed himself “unreasonable.” (The title of his 2012 book was
The Art of Being Unreasonable.) He helped define what it meant to be a 21st century philanthropist, importing the kind of high expectations, metrics, and authority he embraced in business into his charitable activities. This approach, which he has described as “venture philanthropy,” made him widely influential and also divisive.
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Vartan Gregorian, the president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the former president of Brown University and the New York Public Library in the United States, illustrious scholar and steward of Andrew Carnegie’s legacy, died aged 87 on 15 April. Gregorian had been hospitalised for testing related to stomach pain.
Gregorian, a distinguished historian and humanities scholar, was the 12th president of Carnegie Corporation of New York.
During his tenure, from 1997 to the present, he championed the causes of education, immigration and international peace and security – key concerns of the foundation’s founder, Andrew Carnegie.
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Author Anne Fine has twice won the Carnegie Medal, Britain’s most prestigious children s book award, and has two Whitbread Awards, along with many other regional and foreign prizes. Twice voted Children’s Author of the Year, she was Children’s Laureate from 2001 to 2003, when she was also awarded an OBE for services to children’s literature and made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her work is translated into 45 languages. Her novel Goggle-Eyes was adapted for the BBC and Madame Doubtfire became a hit for Twentieth Century Fox as Mrs Doubtfire, starring Robin Williams. Anne has two daughters and four grandchildren and has lived in Barnard Castle with her partner, botanist Richard Warren, for 30 years.