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Funston, Keith

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Funston, (George) Keith (1910–1992)

US business executive and college president. From 1945–51 he was president of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where he managed to increase the college endowment by 50%. He led the New York Stock Exchange through a period of revival and sustained expansion from 1951–67 before ending a varied career as part-time chairman of the Olin Mathieson Chemical Company (1967–72).

The son of a banker, he was born in Waterloo, Iowa. He worked his way through Trinity College and Harvard Business School before becoming a salesman for American Radiator and, later, Sylvania.



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