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Robert Winship Woodruff (December 6, 1889 – March 7, 1985) was an American businessman who served as the president of The Coca-Cola Company from 1923 until 1955. With a large net worth, he was also a major philanthropist, and many educational and cultural landmarks in the U.S. city of Atlanta, Georgia , bear his name.
Evans remarried to Colonel Arthur Kelly Evans, a retired Canadian Army officer, in 1913. They made their home in Hot Springs, Virginia.. In 1919, the Woodruff family purchased Coca-Cola from Asa Candler, and Robert Woodruff as its president came to work closely with Evans, who had been president of the bottling company since she was 36.
The school is named after Nell Hodgson Woodruff, wife of long-time president of The Coca-Cola Company Robert W. Woodruff. Mrs. Woodruff left nursing school when she married, but she supported nursing causes throughout her life. [1]
In 1976 Woodruff established the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, a summer forum for the development of new plays that is still flourishing. [3] It was here that Woodruff first worked with the writer Sam Shepard, on a libretto that Shepard had developed for the national bicentennial celebrations, The Sad Lament of Pecos Bill on the Eve of Killing His Wife.
Woodruff was born on August 18, 1961 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, the son of Frances Ann (Dawson) and Robert Norman Woodruff Jr., real estate agents. [1] [2] [3] Woodruff graduated from the private Cranbrook Kingswood school in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in 1979. He earned a B.A. in 1983 from Colgate University, where he played lacrosse ...
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After 32 years of marriage, Ice Cube knows a thing or two about making love last. The rapper-actor, 55, married wife Kimberly Woodruff in 1992, and in a recent episode of Cam Newton’s podcast ...
Sir Robert Woodruff lived there in 1608. [1] By 1633, George Wyrall, Edward Machen's brother-in-law, was the owner. [1] The house stayed in the Machen family until 1883. [1] Eastbach Court was acquired in 1987 [3] by Lord Rowe-Beddoe, and his wife, who undertook restoration.