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4 hari yang lalu · John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist, founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust. Learn more about Standard Oil’s reorganization in the face of antitrust actions and about Rockefeller’s philanthropy.
6 hari yang lalu · Dwight N. Hopkins has been named the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor. Hopkins is a constructive social impact theologian (his first Ph.D. degree) with emphasis on wealth ownership informed by history, politics, and religion (his second Ph.D. degree).
6 hari yang lalu · Another benefaction received by the history school was the endowment in 1926 of a chair of political science by the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial.
5 hari yang lalu · A memorial erected at Newfound Gap, still intact today, commemorates the $5 million gift from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Foundation that paid half the purchase price of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Photo provided by Thompson Photograph Collection, Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection, Knox County Public Library.
5 hari yang lalu · In their Bainbridge Island community, friends Liesl Clark and Rebecca Rockefeller discovered that the beaches of Puget Sound were spoiled by a daily influx of plastic items and trash washing on shore.
5 hari yang lalu · The Spelman College student screamed, “Zahara Marley Jolie.” Social media users reacted to the apparent diss, with one writing, “Oh Zahara said her last name is Jolie, not Jolie-Pitt.”
5 hari yang lalu · From Shiloh Jolie to Elle King, see the celebrity kids see who decided to forgo their famous parents' last names. Being the child of a celebrity has a lot of perks ( the incredible closet archives...
