Bobst, Elmer Holmes, 1884-1978
Elmer Holmes Bobst (1884-1978), the third of five children of Isaac and Alice (Holmes) Bobst. Bobst's first wife, Ethel Rose, died in 1953. In 1961 he remarried the former Mamdouha As-Sayyid, a social scientist serving on Lebanon's delegation to the United Nations.
Elmer Holmes Bobst began his career as a pharmacist and later exerted tremendous influence over the modern pharmaceutical industry, becoming, in 1920, manager and treasurer of the Hoffman-LaRoche Chemical Works (later, Roche-Nutley); then as president and chief executive officer of William Warner Company (later, board chairman of Warner-Lambert). Bobst became a White House advisor on health issues during Richard Nixon's presidency. He was a noted philanthropist, with particular commitment to the support of the American Cancer Society. Further, his keen interest in education led him to make substantial gifts to Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, Franklin and Marshall College, the Elmer Holmes Bobst Institute of Clinical Research at Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital in Philadelphia, Chungang University in Seoul, Korea, and a $11.5 million gift to New York University for the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library and Study Center.
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