Henry Townley Heald

Henry Townley Heald

Henry Townley Heald (1904-1975) was president of Armour Institute of Technology from 1938-1940, when it became Illinois Institute of Technology. He remained at IIT until 1952. He is credited with bringing architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to Chicago in 1938 to direct IIT's architecture program. A scholarship at the university is named after him. [http://www.enrollment.iit.edu/finaid/information_u/summer_scholarships.html]

He left to become president of New York University and later, the Ford Foundation.


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