Arthur R. Taylor
 Arthur R. Taylor    (banker, media executive) | ||||||||||||
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| Born | July 6, 1935 Elizabeth, New Jersey | |||||||||||
| Died | December 3, 2015 (Age 80) | |||||||||||
| Nationality | American | |||||||||||
| Alma mater | Brown University | |||||||||||
| Member of | Bilderberg/Steering committee, Phi Beta Kappa, Trilateral Commission | |||||||||||
American banker, media executive and member of the Bilderberg Steering Committee. President of media corporation CBS. Also working for David Rockefeller.
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Arthur R. Taylor was an American banker, president of media corporation CBS, and member of the Bilderberg Steering Committee.[1]
He resigned as president of Muhlenberg College in 2002, in the face of mounting pressure from faculty members and complaints about his behavior, including accusations of sexual harassment.[2]
Education
Taylor was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University.
Career
He began his corporate career with the First Boston Corporation.
He was later Vice President Finance and Executive Vice President of International Paper Company.
He was president of CBS from 1972 until 1976.[3][4]
After the ouster Taylor became the founding president of the New York City Partnership, a business and civic lobbying group formed by the banker David Rockefeller and affiliated with the Chamber of Commerce. Taylor was also the founding president of the Entertainment Channel, a joint venture by the RCA Corporation and the Rockefeller Group.[5]
He also founded Arthur Taylor & Company, a private investment concern.
In 1985, Fordham University named him dean of its Graduate School of Business Administration.[6]
Taylor also was president of Muhlenberg College for a decade (1992–2002), during which Muhlenberg tripled its endowment, halved its debt, and saw a significant rise in admissions selectivity.[7] Despite these institutional successes, Taylor's resignation in 2002 followed several meetings by the College Board of Trustees over his increasingly concerning behavior; this included an ongoing investigation by the Board that Taylor had been sexually harassing employees, supplemented by an anonymously-authored document submitted to the Board detailing those actions and other inappropriate behaviors.[8]
He was married to Kathryn Pelgrift Taylor. Arthur Taylor died on December 3, 2015, from pulmonary failure in Allentown, Pennsylvania.[9]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1972 | 21 April 1972 | 23 April 1972 | Belgium Hotel La Reserve Knokke | The 21st Bilderberg, 102 guests. It spawned the Trilateral Commission. |
| Bilderberg/1977 | 22 April 1977 | 24 April 1977 | United Kingdom Imperial Hotel Torquay | The 25th Bilderberg, held in Torquay, England. |
| Bilderberg/1979 | 27 April 1979 | 29 April 1979 | Austria Baden Clubhotel Schloss Weikersdorf | 27th Bilderberg, 95 guests, Austria |
| Bilderberg/1981 | 15 May 1981 | 17 May 1981 | Switzerland Palace Hotel Bürgenstock | The 29th Bilderberg |
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20140202095633/http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/former-steering-committee-members.html
- ↑ https://archive.is/20230411051210/https://www.chronicle.com/article/muhlenberg-president-quits-under-fire/
- ↑ http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-muhlenberg-arthur-taylor-dies-20151204-story.htm
- ↑ Sally Bedell Smith, In All His Glory: The Life and Times of William S. Paley and the Birth of Modern Broadcasting, New York: Random House, 2002, p. 232.
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/10/business/media/arthur-r-taylor-ex-cbs-president-who-sold-yankees-to-steinbrenner-dies-at-80.html
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/17/nyregion/banker-fills-fordham-post.html
- ↑ http://www.muhlenberg.edu/latestnews/featuredstory/name,340659,en.html
- ↑ https://www.chronicle.com/article/muhlenberg-president-quits-under-fire/
- ↑ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/arthur-taylor-dead-cbs-president-847469
