Wilbur Hugh "Ping" Ferry
Wilbur Hugh "Ping" Ferry (1910-1995) was the vice president of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions from 1954 to 1969.[1] Additionally, he was on the board of the DJB Foundation from 1970 until his death.
Ferry was born in Detroit.[2] He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1932. He married his first wife, Jolyne Marie Gillier, in 1937 but later divorced her. Much later, he married Carol Bernstein Ferry in 1973.[3]
Ferry worked at Earl Newsom & Company (ENCO), a public relations firm, from 1945 to 1954, and became a partner relatively quickly after starting there. At ENCO, he worked heavily with the Ford Foundation.[4] During this time, he suggested the founding of the Fund for the Republic, a subsidiary of the Ford Foundation.[5]
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- ↑ Eric Pace, "Wilbur H. Ferry, 84, Executive With an Iconoclastic Viewpoint," New York Times, October 3, 1995, Accessed April 4, 2011.
- ↑ James Arthur Ward , Ferrytale: The Career of W. H. "Ping" Ferry, Stanford University Press, 2002, p. 5
- ↑ Eric Pace, "Wilbur H. Ferry, 84, Executive With an Iconoclastic Viewpoint," New York Times, October 3, 1995, Accessed April 4, 2011.
- ↑ James Arthur Ward , Ferrytale: The Career of W. H. "Ping" Ferry, Stanford University Press, 2002, p. 35-36
- ↑ James Arthur Ward , Ferrytale: The Career of W. H. "Ping" Ferry, Stanford University Press, 2002, p. 48
