Harry F. Weyher Jr.

Harry F. Weyher Jr. (19 August 1921 – 27 March 2002) was an American lawyer and president of the controversial Pioneer Fund from 1958 to 2002.

Born in Wilson, North Carolina, Weyher attended the University of North Carolina. After serving in World War II, he earned a law degree at Harvard Law School. He died in La Grange, North Carolina. Loving the outdoors, Weyher was also an avid sportsman.

Harvard Bulletin, fall 2002:

During WWII, Weyher served in the European theater in the U.S. Army, becoming a first sergeant and earning two battle stars. According to classmate (Harvard Law School) Leon Baker, Weyher "was the first sergeant of a secret 120-member elite intelligence unit, which operated behind enemy lines." In 1945, while Allied forces were attempting to seize the Arnhem bridge, Weyher entered the deserted town of Remagen and discovered a bridge over the Rhine that had not been destroyed by German troops. "Nine weeks after the initial breakthrough at the Remagen bridge, the German army surrendered," wrote Baker.**

References

*Weyher, Harry F. (February 2, 1995). [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2008 'The Bell Curve' and its sources.] In response to The Tainted Sources of 'The Bell Curve'* (December 1, 1994). "New York Review of Books", Volume 42, Number 2.
*Rushton, J. Philippe (2002). The Pioneer Fund and the Scientific Study of Human Differences. "Albany Law Review" 66:209.

**http://www.law.harvard.edu/alumni/bulletin/2002/fall/memoriam_main.html