Roy Carver
1910-1981. Muscatine industrialist and entrepreneur, never resided locally, but his personal and foundation gifts to the University of Iowa, currently exceeding $100 million, have substantially impacted elements from sports to medicine, and art to public health. A wing of the UI Art Museum, a pavilion at UI Hospitals and Clinics, the Carver-Hawkeye Arena, College of Public Health, and the College of Medicine are among his beneficiaries. The Carver endowments of “distinguished faculty” chairs substantially broaden the scope of his impacts. Former UI president Sandy Boyd said of Carver: “His generosity helped shape the university that we have today.”