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This website seeks to explore and interrogate the past at a school dedicated to the new. Contributions by students, staff, faculty, alumni, and researchers.

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Julia L. Foulkes, Professor of History
Mark Larrimore, Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Wendy Scheir, Director, New School Archives and Special Collections

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Eugene Lang

Posted on Tuesday April 24, 2018

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Eugene Lang (1919-2017) was an American philanthropist known for creating the REFAC Technology Development Corporation in 1951. His large donations to the New School allowed the undergraduate liberal arts college to be named after him. Due to his philanthropic efforts at many other institutions, he held 38 honorary degrees in his name.
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Posted on Tuesday April 24, 2018

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Eugene Lang made large donations to The New School’s undergraduate liberal arts college – Eugene Lang College. You can read more about him here.

If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Eugene Lang, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions.

swarthmore college bulletin. Web. 03 Nov 201

Eugene Lang
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