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Beinecke, William S., 2007 November 9

 Series
Call Number: RU 1037

Dates

  • 2007 November 9

Creator

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Collection materials are closed to research until January 1, 2029, after which access is subject to review by University Archives staff.

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Biographical / Historical

Yale Corporation Fellow 1971-1982, successor trustee.

Yale benefactor.

William S. Beinecke graduated from Yale College in 1936 and from the Columbia University Law School in 1940. In 1986, Yale awarded him an Honorary LLD degree. He served on the University Council 1963-68 (Executive Committee 1967-68), on the Committee on the Operational Uses of the Social Sciences concerning the founding of the School of Management, and on the Yale Corporation from 1971, until he reached the then mandatory retirement age. In 1999, his children established the William S. Beinecke a professorial Chair in Management Studies in his honor at the School of Management. When his daughter Frances was elected to the Corporation in 1995, they were the first father and daughter to serve.

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