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C.V. Starr noted that many Chinese lived to a venerable age, and calculated that improving living standards would likely cause a further decline in the death rate. Displaying a trait that would later become a hallmark of the American International culture, he formed his own company, hired prominent Chinese to serve on the board, and talented ...
The Starr Foundation was established in 1955 by C.V. Starr. Soon after Starr's 1968 death, Ta Chun (T.C.) Hsu, became President (1969) and remained in that position until 1999. Here he is shown at the opening of the C.V. Starr Pavilion, New York Hospital in 1984. The Foundation makes grants in a number of prioritized areas, including Education ...
The C.V. Starr Chair in Asia Studies was created in 1985 through a grant from the Starr Foundation, which was established by Cornelius Vander Starr, founder of what is now American International ...
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Below is an excerpt from the biography of Cornelius Vander Starr, published in 1970: When he was just 26 years old, Cornelius Vander Starr took a clerkship with the Pacific Mail Steamship Company in Yokohama, Japan. Among his major assets at the time were the job and a strong sense of his own worth. The latter proved too much for the former.
Cornelius Vander Starr (1892-1968) Below is an excerpt from the biography of Cornelius Vander Starr, published in 1970: When he was just 26 years old, Cornelius ...
Becoming a Business Man. After dropping out of college at the University of California, Berkeley, C.V. Starr returned to his hometown of Ft. Bragg, CA, where he opened an ice cream parlor and soda fountain in 1911. He later sold the business for $1,000. Starr next went to work for the James Nelson Realty Company, where he first developed an ...
