Henry Townley Heald was president of Armour Institute of Technology from 1938 to 1940, when it became Illinois Institute of Technology

Illinois Institute of Technology

Illinois Institute of Technology, commonly called Illinois Tech or IIT, is a private Ph.D.-granting university located in Chicago, Illinois, with programs in engineering, science, psychology, architecture, business, communications, industrial technology, information technology, design, and law...

 (IIT). He is credited with bringing architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a German architect. He is commonly referred to and addressed as Mies, his surname....

 to Chicago in 1938 to direct IIT's architecture program. He left IIT in 1952 to become president of New York University

New York University

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 and later, the Ford Foundation

Ford Foundation

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. He appeared on the cover of Time

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in 1957 for his work at the Ford Foundation. A scholarship

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 at IIT is named after him.