As per our current Database, Walter Shorenstein & family has been died on June 24, 2010(2010-06-24) (aged 95).
When Walter Shorenstein & family die, Walter Shorenstein & family was 95 years old.
Popular As | Walter Shorenstein & family |
Occupation | Real Estate |
Age | 95 years old |
Zodiac Sign | Pisces |
Born | February 15, 1915 (United States) |
Birthday | February 15 |
Town/City | United States |
Nationality | United States |
Walter Shorenstein & family’s zodiac sign is Pisces. According to astrologers, Pisces are very friendly, so they often find themselves in a company of very different people. Pisces are selfless, they are always willing to help others, without hoping to get anything back. Pisces is a Water sign and as such this zodiac sign is characterized by empathy and expressed emotional capacity.
Walter Shorenstein & family was born in the Year of the Rabbit. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rabbit enjoy being surrounded by family and friends. They’re popular, compassionate, sincere, and they like to avoid conflict and are sometimes seen as pushovers. Rabbits enjoy home and entertaining at home. Compatible with Goat or Pig.
Shorenstein was born to a Jewish family in 1915 in Glen Cove, New York, son of a clothier. His uncle, Hyman Schorenstein, was a political "kingmaker" in New York during the early 20th century, and ancestor to a number of New York politicians. In 1934, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1941, he enlisted in the United States Air Force.
In 1945, Shorenstein married Phyllis Finley of Wellington, Kansas. She met her husband while working as a volunteer ambulance driver at Travis Air Force Base, where Shorenstein was stationed during World War II. Phyllis converted to Judaism. Mrs. Shorenstein had a heart ailment and died in 1994 at the age 76 in San Francisco. They had three children:
Upon his discharge from the Air Force, Shorenstein moved to San Francisco with savings of $1,000. He worked as a commercial real estate broker, becoming a partner at Milton Meyer and Co., a firm he bought in 1960 upon its founder's death and renamed after himself. He and others attributed his success in Business to "street smarts".
Shorenstein became active politically and was a significant fundraiser for the Democratic Party. He was a major donor to civic and charitable causes, as well as higher education. He was prominent in the Jewish-American political and philanthropic community. In honor of his daughter who died of cancer in 1985, Shorenstein founded the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy — renamed the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy in 2014 — at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He also endowed the Walter H. Shorenstein Forum for Asia Pacific Studies at Stanford University. In 1993, he and Mikhail Gorbachev established the Gorbachev Foundation in San Francisco.
In 1993, Shorenstein helped an investor group purchase the San Francisco Giants baseball team thus preventing the franchise from moving to Florida.