Harvard Business School alum, benefactor C.D. ‘Dick’ Spangler dies at 86

Sunday, July 29, 2018 - 08:46 in Mathematics & Economics

Harvard Business School alumnus and former member of the Board of Overseers C.D. (“Dick”) Spangler Jr., M.B.A. ’56, died July 22 at his home in Charlotte, N.C. He was 86 years old. Extraordinarily accomplished in both the private and public sectors, after graduating from Harvard Business School (HBS) Spangler served two years in the U.S. Army. He went on to achieve great success in several industries, including his family’s construction business, which evolved into National Gypsum, and banking, chairing the Bank of North Carolina during the 1980s and playing a key role in its merger with the North Carolina National Bank Corp., now Bank of America. Spangler took great pride in recounting that while he was an M.B.A. student, his father was in the School’s Advanced Management Program. From 1998 to 2004, Spangler was a member of Harvard’s Board of Overseers and served as its president from 2003 to 2004. His devotion, generosity, and...

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