Eugene Lang
Eugene M. "Gene" Lang (b. 1919, New York City) is an American philanthropist who founded REFAC Technology Development Corporation in 1951. He created the I Have A Dream Foundation in 1981, Project Pericles in 2001, and the Lang Youth Medical Program in 2003. He has also made large donations to Swarthmore College, The New School's undergraduate liberal arts college - Eugene Lang College - and the Eugene M. Lang Center for Entrepreneurship at Columbia Business School, which is part of Columbia University.
In 1996 President Bill Clinton awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His philanthropies, focused primarily on education, altogether exceed $150,000,000. Due to his philanthropy in education, he now holds 29 honorary degrees.
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