15 Facts About Helen Reichert

Helen Reichert was an American talk show personality, New York University professor, founder of The Round Table of Fashion Executives, and the oldest living alumnus of Cornell University at the time of her death at age 109, just seven weeks before she would have become a supercentenarian.

In 1925, Helen Reichert graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in English from the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University.

Helen Reichert experienced anti-Semitism in Ithaca as a Cornell student and had to change her name from Kahn to Keane due to Collegetown realtors refusing to rent an apartment to a Jewish woman.

In 1931, Helen Reichert earned a master's degree in psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Helen Reichert later transferred to Montgomery Ward, a mail-order catalog and retail company, and worked as a fashion coordinator.

Helen Reichert's husband was a founding member, trustee, and governor of The American College of Cardiology, and served as its executive director from 1952 to 1962.

Dr Helen Reichert died on March 19,1985, at the age of 87.

Helen Reichert founded the Helen F Reichert Scholarship, awarded to medical students of Weill Cornell, in honor of her husband, who resolved to become a doctor after watching a doctor tend to his dying father.

Helen Reichert had three siblings: sister Leonore Reichart and brothers Irving Kahn, the noted value investor, and Peter Keane, a Hollywood cinematographer and film executive, who changed his last name from Kahn to Keane to avoid anti-Semitism.

Later in life, Helen Reichert confessed that there is no reason why she should have lived as long as she did.

Helen Reichert hated vegetables, getting up early, and most things associated with living a healthy lifestyle.

Helen Reichert loved rare hamburgers, chocolate, cocktails, and nightlife in New York, including exotic restaurants, Broadway shows, movies, and the Metropolitan Opera.

Helen Reichert died of natural causes on September 25,2011, in her Park Avenue apartment in New York City at the age of 109.

Helen Reichert rewrote her will under undue influence and disinherited many of her devoted family members.

Helen Reichert asked the pool about the details of their living habits: nutrition, alcohol consumption, smoking, physical activity, sleep, education, status, and spirituality.