314:. In 1962, he gave the school $ 250,000 to establish a chair in European history. In 1990, he donated $ 7.5 million to establish the Jacob Hiatt Center for Urban Education. The center was created to allow Clark faculty and Worcester public school teachers to work together on ways to improve public education, with an emphasis on issues related to the increased ethnic diversity of students. The donation was the largest in the university's history. In 1989, he also gave a large endowment to name the university's Frances L. Hiatt School of Psychology.
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211:, where he eventually rose to the position of company president. The company was later acquired by Whitney Box to form Dodge-Whitney Co. In February 1962, Dodge-Whitney and three other companies merged to create the Rand-Whitney Corporation. Hiatt remained in charge of Rand-Whitney until 1968, when his son-in-law, Robert Kraft, purchased half of the company in a
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In 1990, Hiatt, his daughter Myra, and his son-in-law Robert Kraft financed an endowed chair in Judaic studies at Holy Cross, along with an endowed chair in
Christian studies at Brandeis as part of a program that involved joint academic activities in comparative religion. He also provided funding for
175:, and German, Hiatt did not speak English when he arrived in the U.S. Frances Lavine, the secretary to the Worcester superintendent of schools, helped find him a school that taught English to immigrants. They married in 1937. In 1946 he earned a master's degree from
358:. The museum's Frances L. Hiatt Wing was named in memory of Hiatt's wife. He also provided money for the creation of the Frances Hiatt Scholarships at the Worcester Art Museum and the Hiatt FAME (Fund for the Advancement of Museum Education).
418: : 7 January 2021), Jacob Hiatt, 25 Feb 2001; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
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462:"Jacob Hiatt, 95; Entrepreneur, Championed Education, Israel"
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1068:"University Government Reform Aim of Probe"
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199:. His wife, Frances Hiatt, died in 1980.
957:"U.S. Gives $ 25,000 For Brandeis Study"
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1149:. Boston, MA. p. 133
519:"Worcester's Dream Maker"
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241:Displaced persons camps
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98:2 daughters, including
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1257:2001 deaths
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594:February 8,
362:Other works
23:Jacob Hiatt
1246:Categories
402:References
165:Lithuanian
140:Early life
127:(grandson)
125:Josh Kraft
122:(grandson)
117:(grandson)
100:Myra Kraft
35:1908-07-01
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