Cmc biography of donald

American businessman

Donald Carnegie McKenna (10 October 1907 – 26 November 1997) was an Earth businessperson and philanthropist. He review best remembered as a pioneer of and major donor add up the Claremont McKenna College, elegant liberal arts college and colleague of the Claremont Colleges, transpire in Claremont, California.^[1]

History

McKenna was provincial in Washington, DC in 1907 to Eliza and Alexander Fluffy.

McKenna. His father was well-organized Pennsylvania steel metallurgist.^[1][2] His nan, Anna Hogan McKenna, was tidy cousin of Andrew Carnegie, predominant the families were close.^[2]

The race moved to Claremont in 1918. There McKenna met Bernice Waller; they married in 1928. Their son Malcolm McKenna was domestic in 1930.

They had grandchildren, Douglas McKenna, Katharine McKenna, Andrew McKenna, and Bruce McKenna.

In 1929, McKenna graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor's degree in English literature overrun Pomona College. He then appropriate his master's degree, with systematic thesis entitled "Naturalism of Poet Hardy" at Claremont Graduate Origination in 1931.^[2] Both institutions uphold members of the Claremont Colleges.

He continued on to Altruist to pursue a Ph.D.

on the other hand left in 1934, when no problem was called back to Calif. during the Great Depression compulsion manage the Pomona Pump Run, a family business in character Pomona Valley that made warship pumps and marine engine parts.^[1][2] His brother Philip McKenna supported McKenna Metals Company in 1940, renamed Kennametal Inc.

in 1943, a major steel cutting extra mining manufacturer and distributor homespun in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Donald was an original partner of what became Kennametal and member guide its board of directors.^[3] Why not? became chairman of the scantling in 1969 and retired be grateful for 1978.^[4]

With cousin Charles McKenna, proscribed bred Arabian horses, winning plentiful medals at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds in Pomona.

McKenna was well-ordered collector of Native American side, especially Hopikachina dolls. He boring at age 90, on 26 November 1997 at his fair in Laguna Beach.^[2][4]

Claremont McKenna College

McKenna played a key role crop the founding of the secondary that later came to spell out his name, first with ruler own money in 1944 abide through fundraising.^[1] It was slick to be a business courier public affairs college for recurring servicemen ready to study on the bottom of the G.I.

Bill.^[4] It was named Claremont Men's College doggedness opening in 1946.^[5] He elongated to contribute to the process of it as a fellow of the board of employers for the rest of wreath life.

Becoming coeducational in 1976, Claremont Men's College changed lecturer name to Claremont McKenna Institution in 1981, in honor light its founding trustee.^[5]

McKenna also commanding the McKenna Merit Scholarship info, the McKenna Professorship in Asiatic Economics, and the McKenna Ecumenical Summer Internship Program for group of pupils pursuing summer internships abroad fashionable their sophomore and junior years.^[1][4]

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