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In 1983, Walter Annenberg, class of 1927, made a gift of $12 million (equivalent to $36.7 million in 2023) to Peddie, the largest donation to a secondary school at the time. Ten years later in 1993, Ambassador Annenberg topped his gift when he made the groundbreaking donation of $100 million (equivalent to $210.9 million in 2023), allowing it ...
The Annenberg family moved to Long Island, New York, in 1920. [10] Walter attended Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey, where he graduated in 1927. [10] He was admitted to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, but dropped out without attaining a degree. [11]
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Nicholas, 25, who is an heir to publishing magnate Walter Annenberg’s fortune through his mother, Dana Hammond, didn’t seem to mind the chilly spring weather in NYC, showing off his arms in a ...
Walter Annenberg became interested in WFIL as it was one of the few radio stations that had FCC approval to also run a television station. Annenberg was granted the license to start WFIL-TV (now WPVI). Triangle also pioneered the concept of facsimile transmission (fax) over an FM band, transmitting its Philadelphia Inquirer as WFIL-FX. This ...
In the 1990s, billionaire Walter Annenberg, former ambassador to the United Kingdom under President Richard Nixon, was the United States' most generous living philanthropist. By 1998, Annenberg had given away more than $2 billion and the assets of the Annenberg Foundation he had established in June 1989 with $1 billion had grown to $3 billion ...
The $92-million project — split 50/50 between public money and donations to the National Wildlife Federation and its Save LA Cougars fund, including $26 million from Wallis Annenberg and the ...
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