American businessman, investor, and philanthropist, Robert Addison Day was the founder and former chairman and chief executive officer of Trust Company of the West until 2009. He is the chairman and president of the W. M. Keck Foundation.
Who is Robert Addison Day’s wife Marlyn Gates?
Day was married to Marlyn Gates, Day was the controlling owner of the Foley Timber and Land Company, which owned approximately 560,000 acres of timberland in Florida, making him one of the largest landowners in Florida at the time.
The W.M. Keck Foundation later gave a US$110 million gift to the University of Southern California in 1999, creating the Keck School of Medicine of USC. In 2011, the W.M. Keck Foundation gave a US$150 million naming gift to USC.
The university’s academic medical enterprise was named Keck Medicine of USC, comprising Keck Medical Center of USC and the Keck School of Medicine. The Foundation gave another US$10 million to USC in 2017, renaming a building previously known as Healthcare Center 2 to Willamette Keck Day Healthcare Center
