Harold W. McGraw, Jr., Chairman Emeritus and Former CEO, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Died at His Home This Morning
Announcing the formation of the education prize, Joseph L. Dionne, who succeeded Mr. McGraw as chairman of the McGraw-Hill board that year, said, "There is no greater, more generous friend to education and literacy than Harold McGraw. We honor and support his special, continuing commitment."
Additional philanthropic activities included Mr. McGraw's personal funding of a major renovation of the McGraw Rotunda at the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue, named in honor of his parents Harold and Louise McGraw. Other recipients of his generosity included the Children's Wing of his hometown library in Darien, Conn., the Reading Room in the Bunn Library of the Lawrenceville (N.J.) School, and several settlement houses on the West Side of Manhattan, including classrooms and a playground at Hartley House dedicated to his daughter, Suzanne McGraw, a teacher.
- People:
- Harold "Terry" McGraw III
- Places:
- New York City