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Max Heller
Winter Term, 2001
Max M. Heller
is a native of Austria who left his Nazi-occupied homeland in 1938
and came to Greenville to work as a stock boy at Piedmont Shirt
Company. He founded Maxon Shirt Company in 1948 and retired in 1969
to devote his time to public service. In 1971, after two years on
the Greenville City Council, he was elected to the first of two
consecutive terms as mayor of Greenville. He was a candidate for
the United States House of Representatives in 1978.
A former chair
of the State Development Board, he has played a leadership role
in civic and community organizations. He received the 1970 Man of
the Year Award from the National Council of Jewish Women, the Distinguished
Service Award and the Greater Greenville Ministerial Alliance, and
the Human Relations Award from the Greenville Human Relations Commission.
A former chair of the Greenville Chamber of Commerce and a past
member of the Furman Advisory Council, he is a recipient of the
Whitney Young Humanitarian Award from the Greenville Urban League.
Furman awarded him an honorary doctor of laws degree in 1975 and
the Bell Tower Award in 1998.
Max and his
wife, Trude, who received an honorary degree from Furman in 1999,
have three children, 10 grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.
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SENIOR
FELLOWS
Mr.
Jim Micali
Dr.
James Guth
Mayor
Deedee Corradini
HEAD-OF-GOVERNMENT
IN RESIDENCE
Wlodzimierz
Cimoszewicz, 2007
SCHOLARS
IN RESIDENCE
Anthony
H. Barash, 2005
PAST
FELLOWS
Madeleine
Kunin, 2009
Thomas
Boyatt, 2009
Marshall
Goldman, 2008
Eibhlin
Byrne, 2008
Peter
Beattie, 2008
Marjorie
Margolies, 2007
Ken
Menkhaus, 2007
William
Wilkins, 2006
Richard
Norton, 2006
Peter
Parussini, 2005
Andrés
F. Irlando, 2004
Anthony H. Barash,
2004
Dr.
George Folsom,
2004
Ambassador
James Lilley, 2004
Dr.
Merle Black, 2004
Hon.
Stevenson McIlvaine, 2003
Hon.
Mutahi Kagwe, 2003
Mr.
David Shipler, 2003
Mr.
John Simpkins,
2002
Hon.
Monica Frassoni, 2002
Sen.
Gaylord Nelson, 2001
Hon.
Max Heller, 2001
Hon.
Derek Shearer and Hon. Ruth Goldway,
2000
Hon.
Robert Rubin, 1999
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