Henry Townley Heald (1904–1975) was the first president of Illinois Institute of Technology and the Ford Foundation.

Career

Heald was president of Armour Institute of Technology from 1937 to 1940, at which time it became the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT); he served as its president until 1952. He is credited with bringing architect

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to Chicago in 1938 to direct IIT's architecture program. He led a team that investigated the idea of a

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on the west coast and made proposals that would result in the creation of SRI International. He left IIT in 1952 to become president of

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. In 1956 he became the president of the Ford Foundation, where he served until 1965.

Honors and legacy

He appeared on the cover of ''

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'' in 1957. In 1959, Heald was awarded the

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, which recognizes civic and humanitarian achievements by engineers. A

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at IIT is named after him.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Heald, Henry Townley 1904 births 1975 deaths Presidents of Illinois Institute of Technology Illinois Institute of Technology faculty Presidents of New York University 20th-century American academics