Evelyn Lauder was an Austrian American businesswoman, socialite and philanthropist who has been credited as one of the creators and popularizers of the pink ribbon as a symbol for awareness of breast cancer.
14 Facts About Evelyn Lauder
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Evelyn Lauder was born Evelyn Hausner in 1936 in Vienna, Austria, to a Jewish family.
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Evelyn Lauder graduated from Hunter College High School in 1954.
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Evelyn Lauder then attended Hunter College, part of the City University of New York, where she studied Psychology and Anthropology and where she met her future husband, Leonard Lauder, then a trainee naval officer, on a blind date.
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Evelyn Lauder was the Senior Corporate Vice President of the Estee Evelyn Lauder Companies and a member of the board of overseers at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
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Evelyn Lauder worked as the training director for Clinique and was the first person to wear the trademark white lab coat, now worn by Clinique salespeople at cosmetic departments worldwide.
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Evelyn Lauder helped raise an additional $5 million to create an endowment to be used to fund clinical research there.
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Self magazine's first annual issue for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month came after an April 1991 lunch at the 21 Club, at which Evelyn Lauder discussed ideas for articles about breast cancer with her friend Alexandra Penney, who was then editor of Self.
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Together with Penney, Evelyn Lauder established The Breast Cancer Research Foundation and formalized the pink ribbon as a symbol for breast cancer awareness as part of Self magazine's second annual Breast Cancer Awareness Month issue in 1992.
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Evelyn Lauder made the commitment to have the ribbons placed on the company's cosmetics counters across the United States.
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Evelyn Lauder's husband paid for the cost of registering The Breast Cancer Research Foundation in all 50 states.
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Evelyn Lauder was married to Leonard Lauder, former chairman of the Estee Lauder Companies, from 1959 until her death.
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Evelyn Lauder died at home in Manhattan from complications of nongenetic ovarian cancer.
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Evelyn Lauder was a longtime resident of Palm Beach, Florida.