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Shelby Davis is noted as an extraordinarily generous philanthropist, especially to educational causes. [16] Among the most significant recipients of his philanthropy are the United World College movement and his own alma mater, Princeton University, [17] of which he served as trustee starting in 2006, [18] and was one of the most generous donors to the university while on the board. [19]
Shelby Cullom Davis (April 1, 1909 – May 26, 1994) was an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. In 1947, he founded Shelby Cullom Davis & Company, which became a leading investment firm .
Shelby Davis may refer to: Shelby Cullom Davis (1909–1994), American investor and diplomat; Shelby M.C. Davis (born 1937), American investor; son of Shelby Collum Davis
The Davis United World College Scholars Program is the world’s largest privately funded international scholarship program. [1] [2] It awards need-based scholarship funding, aka the Shelby Davis Scholarship, to graduates of schools and colleges in the United World Colleges (UWC) movement to study at 106 select partner universities in the United States.
After her marriage to Shelby Cullom Davis on January 4, 1932, the couple began a career of financial investments, concentrating on the then-rising insurance industry, first, in the United States through opportunities provided by the Great Depression and, later, in the 1940s and 1950s, through expanding national and international investments ...
Damon Davis, multi-media artist [25] Percy Green II, social worker [25] Tef Poe, musician [25] LJ Punch, critical care surgeon [25] Blake Strode, civil rights lawyer [25] Organizations. Congressional Black Caucus PAC [27] Democratic Socialists of America [28] Friends of the Earth Action [29] Jewish Voice for Peace Action fund [30] Justice ...
Miles was born on 1 November 1918 in Sutton Coldfield, then in Warwickshire, now in the city of Birmingham. [1] He was the son of Eric Miles and Clarice Jarvis. [2] After a failed attempt to run away to the United States, [3] Miles left school at the age of 15 to work as an apprentice at Wolseley Motors, [2] who sent him to a technical school to broaden his knowledge of vehicle construction. [3]
This All Happened More or Less is a sculpture installation, and the first public art commission, by local artists Crystal Schenk and Shelby Davis. The work consists of eight small bronze statues, or "characters", on large dolomite boulders quarried in the Pacific Northwest , "strategically" placed along Southeast Division Street, between 11th ...