Difference between revisions of "Morris Schapiro"
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Revision as of 01:05, 4 December 2007
Morris A. Schapiro CC '23 was a businessman. The brother of art historian Meyer Schapiro, he funded Schapiro Hall. At Columbia, he was an avid chess player, and was persuaded to donate $7 million for the building when Dean Robert Pollack brought the 1984 Columbia chess team to his house.
