a board member of the Children's Cancer Research Foundation. Together with his wife, he also founded the Macula Vision Research Foundation, which aims to find cures for macular degeneration and related illnesses. Throughout his life he was active in fund-raising for a variety of events and organizations, including the Aberdeen Dad Vail Regatta and the Prince Music Theater, which he and his wife had been involved in bringing back into action after its bankruptcy in 2010. References Businesspeople from Philadelphia Philanthropists from Pennsylvania 1933 births 2014 deaths 20th-century American businesspeople 20th-century American philanthropists 21st-century American businesspeople 21st-century American philanthropists