Word: bannard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prominent among the gifts of the past year is one from the late Otto T. Bannard, Yale '76, National Chairman of the Yale Endowment Fund Committee: a fund of $540,000 for the University Library. This gift is in addition to his bequest of his residuary estate, estimated at over two millions, to the University for its general purposes. Other large contributors were the late Payne Whitney, and the late Chaunecen M. Depew...
Died. Otto Tremont Bannard, 74, Manhattan banker and alert citizen; of bronchial pneumonia; on the liner President Cleveland bound for the Philippines. He will be buried in New Haven, Conn...
...delivery boy for a country grocer in McGregor, Iowa, he saved enough money to set out for Yale University, where he was graduated in 1876. A classmate of his great & good friend, Arthur Twining Hadley, now Yale's President Emeritus, Bannard served Yale as a member of the Corporation and as chairman of the successful 1927 campaign to raise $20,000,000.? In 1909, he, no politician, ran for Mayor of New York City at the urgent request of his Republican friends; he finished behind William J. Gaynor and ahead of William Randolph Hearst. His business monument...
...will of Otto Tremont Bannard, filed last week, gave $2,000,000 to Yale University...
With all but $2,250,000 of the $20,000,000 Yale Endowment Fund raised, Chairman of the Yale Corporation Otto Tremont Bannard last week sent in his resignation. Said he, in the battered phraseology of President Coolidge: "I do not choose to run for the Yale Corporation in 1928." When he ran for Mayor of New York City against Justice William J. Gaynor in 1909, Mr. Bannard was described as "a wheel-horse."* Busy-body reporters trying to color his personality, inquired: "What is you favorite form of exercise?" The reply: "None. I tell...