Stewart Mott, 70, a philanthropist who helped bankroll the presidential campaigns of Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern, has died.
Mott died of heart failure Thursday night at a hospital near his North Salem, N.Y., home, said Conrad Martin, executive director of the Stewart Mott Charitable Trust. He had been suffering from lung and throat cancer, Martin said.
Mott was a scion of a family that helped build General Motors Corp. and established one of the nation’s biggest grant-making foundations.
He gave heavily to organizations that promoted peace, population control, civil rights and government reform — the issue perhaps closest to his heart and one that didn’t sit well with some politicians.
William B. Stallcup Jr., 87, the interim president of Southern Methodist University in the aftermath of the 1980s football scandal, has died.
Stallcup died Saturday after a long illness at his home in Ranchos de Taos, N.M. His death was announced on the school’s website.
He was named SMU’s interim president in 1986 after the retirement of president L. Donald Shields when SMU was sanctioned by the NCAA. Widespread cheating prompted the NCAA to kill SMU’s 1987 season.
