Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Oct 10, 2023 6:25:14 GMT -5
From an obit in today's NY Times
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/09/business/charles-f-feeney-dead.html?campaign_id=51&emc=edit_mbe_20231010&instance_id=104804&nl=morning-briefing%3A-europe-edition®i_id=10059472&segment_id=146920&te=1&user_id=da580a4cd1e82ea0128214184976a2ac
During his lifetime, he donated $1 billion to Cornell.
....had a Catholic education, attending St. Genevieve’s Grammar School in Elizabeth and, on a scholarship, Regis High School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Unhappy there, he cheated on an exam, was expelled in his second year and switched to St. Mary’s of the Assumption High School in Elizabeth, graduating in 1949. He served four years in the Air Force, mostly with American occupation forces in Japan.
He graduated from Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration in 1956 and moved to Europe.
He graduated from Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration in 1956 and moved to Europe.
During his lifetime, he donated $1 billion to Cornell.
“Chuck Feeney is a remarkable role model, and the ultimate example of giving while living,” his fellow billionaire Bill Gates told Forbes in 2012. Another of the world’s richest people, Warren Buffett, presented a Forbes 400 Lifetime Achievement Award to Mr. Feeney in 2014, calling him “my hero and Bill Gates’s hero — he should be everybody’s hero.”
