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#60946. pjotr
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What is the relation, if any, between the former head of Coca-Cola Robert Woodruff who has donated millions of dollars to Emory University to George Woodruff, who the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering is named after at the Georgia Institute of Technology, both in Atlanta?
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robboy
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I believe George (GIT class of '17) is Robert's brother, an equally magnanimous benefactor to education, with GIT and Emory University in particular.
"Robert W. Woodruff's
generosity changed the face of Atlanta, inaugurating a new era in the city's history. Beneficiaries include the Woodruff Arts Center, created in the aftermath of the disastrous Orly air crash of 1962, Emory University School of Medicine and the component programs that make up the Woodruff Health Sciences Center, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and CARE. In 1979 Woodruff and his brother, George, donated $105 million to Emory, at that time the largest single gift ever made to a U.S. institution of higher education. This gift, combined with the leadership of Emory's president James T. Laney, transformed Emory into a national institution of academic distinction."
 http://www.whsc.emory.edu/bio_woodruff.cfm
Dec 10 05, 8:43 AM
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