Sidney E Frank was an American businessman and philanthropist.
20 Facts About Sidney Frank
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Sidney Frank became a billionaire through his promotion of Grey Goose vodka and Jagermeister.
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Sidney Frank grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, and graduated from the Norwich Free Academy in 1937.
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Sidney Frank attended Brown University but left because he could only afford one year of tuition.
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Sidney Frank later made enormous gifts to the university to help ensure that no student would ever be forced to leave Brown because of inability to pay tuition.
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Sidney Frank joined Schenley after his marriage and rose to the company presidency, but was forced out in a family dispute in 1970.
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In 1973 his wife died and he started his own company, Sidney Frank Importing Company, where he served as chairman and chief executive officer.
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Sidney Frank is based in New Rochelle, New York, where Frank lived.
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Sidney Frank gave large bonuses to his employees and made a $12 million donation to The Norwich Free Academy in 2005.
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Sidney Frank gave a donation of $5 million to the New York Medical College psychiatry department, leading to the creation of the Sidney Frank fellowship which gives medical students early exposure to the field of psychiatry.
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Sidney Frank's foundation has been a supporter of the Israel Olympic Committee and has helped to offer scholarships in several Israeli sports.
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In 2004, Sidney Frank gave $100 million to his alma mater Brown University, at the time the largest single contribution in the university's history and still tied with two other gifts for that distinction.
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In 2005, Sidney Frank donated $5 million to Brown to help with its Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
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Sidney Frank is the single most generous donor in the university's history.
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Sidney Frank died January 10,2006, on a private plane in flight between San Diego, California, and Vancouver, British Columbia, at the age of 86 from heart failure.
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Sidney Frank is buried in the Rosenstiel family plot at United Jewish Cemeteries in Cincinnati.
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Sidney Frank is an artist and a co-founder of the Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana.
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Daughter Cathy Sidney Frank figured prominently in a highly publicized case regarding her grandfather's will that led to the disbarment of the controversial lawyer Roy Cohn.
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Jagermeister bought the entire company and Cathy Sidney Frank is no longer an officer in the Jagermeister owned company.
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Sidney Frank Importing Company changed its name to Mast-Jagermeister US after its takeover by the German herbal liqueur producer in 2015.