…d, Robert, currently reside in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. × Russell R. Gifford Board: 1989–1994 Appointing Authority: Trustees Committee Read Bio Russell R. Gifford Board: 1989–1994 Appointing Authority: Trustees Committee Russell Gifford retired as president of CNG Energy Services. He joined CNG in 1962 as a management trainee at the East Ohio Gas Company, becoming president of East Ohio Gas in 1989, then moved to CNG Energy…
…nt out grant notification letters and processed each of the hundreds of scholarships given to deserving college students over four decades, personally double-checking that the students received their checks. In 1972, Dorothy Ruth Graham—she married late in life—established the Dorothy and Helen Ruth Fund at the foundation with a gift of $1,000. In part to honor the memory of her mother, Ruth contributed from $700 to $1,000 saved from her modest…
…of Cleveland, he was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia, a rare and particularly aggressive form of cancer. Instead of chemotherapy, doctors at UH’s Ireland Cancer Center decided to treat Dr. Goodman with Mylotarg, a drug that had received Federal Drug Administration approval only five months prior. After 30 days of grueling treatment, during which time he received 19 transfusions of whole blood, Donald Goodman was declared cancer free….
…Ohio Gas Company, becoming president of East Ohio Gas in 1989, then moved to CNG Energy Services as president in 1994. Gifford served as chair of the Greater Cleveland Growth Association and North Coast Harbor Inc. He was a trustee of Cleveland Tomorrow, Greater Cleveland Roundtable and University Hospitals, and served on the boards of the Greater Cleveland Chapter of the American Red Cross, Baldwin Wallace College, Urban League of Greater…
…horities. But Carter’s unpaid and time-consuming leadership of Cleveland Homes should also be acknowledged as part of the Cleveland Foundation’s record of accomplishment. Convener: Establishing a Groundbreaking Interracial Forum 1964 Presbyterian minister Bruce W. Klunder died while protesting the construction of three public elementary schools that Cleveland’s civil rights community believed would perpetuate a system of segregated and inferior…
Forest City Hospital, a 100-bed general medical center built by a group of African-American physicians who wanted to practice in a hospital free of race restrictions, survived its difficult first year of operation with the help of the foundation’s $35,000 emergency grant. Its financial footing regained, Forest City served the residents of Cleveland’s far east side for 20 years. When the hospital closed, its assets were transferred to the new…
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…y respect the equal of her husband, Frederick Harris Goff. A woman of character and intelligence, she came from a family that helped to settle the portion of northeastern Ohio called the… Read Bio in Timeline Dorothy Ruth Assistant to the Foundation’s First Four CEOs Dorothy Ruth was, for many Clevelanders, the face of the Cleveland Foundation for more than 40 years. A graduate of Flora Stone Mather College of Western Reserve University,…
…ting on the advice of a team of 11 nationally known basic scientists led by cardiovascular-pulmonary specialist Alfred P. Fishman, M.D., of the University of Pennsylvania, the foundation agreed to support the rebuilding of CWRU’s basic sciences departments one at a time. Site reviews were to be conducted by the consultants prior to the release of funding for each successive department. Between 1981 and 1986, the medical school received four…
…. Yet the study’s recommendations, which Eckardt and foundation director Steve Minter continued to bring to the attention of new leaders at the concerned institutions over the next decade, planted seeds that ultimately bore fruit. In 1995, CWRU’s school of medicine, which had long been exclusively associated with UH, entered into a joint venture with the Cleveland Clinic to create a center of excellence in structural biology. With significant…