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Guiding Lights

Many have contributed their visionary gifts to the benefit of Emory University. Some have contributed intellectually, some monetarily, some through leadership, and some by all of these and in other ways as well. Their contriubtions have helped to create the foundation that makes Emory today the destination university that it is.

Henry L. Bowden (1932C, 1934L, 1959H), Chair, Board of Trustees, 1957-1979

Marion Luther Brittain (1886C)

Asa Griggs Candler, Benefactor and Chair Board of Trustees, 1915-1929

Charles H. Candler, Chair, Board of Trustees, 1929-1957

Letitia Pate Whitehead Evans, First Woman member of Emory Board of Trustees

Roberto C. Goizueta (1990H)

Henry Hornbostel

Arthur Tufts

George Woodruff (1980H)

Nell Hodgson Woodruff

Robert Woodruff (1912C, 1979H)

 

 

 

 

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