Harold “Gerry” Lenfest died on August 8, 2018. Attorney turned media entrepreneur and philanthropist, Lenfest was the primary moving force behind the new Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia. His cable television company, founded in 1974, eventually became one of the top twelve in the country and was sold to COMCAST in 2000. Among the most magnanimous philanthropists in Pennsylvania history, he founded the Lenfest Institute for Journalism and served on the boards of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Curtis Institute of Music, and Washington and Lee University, as well as Columbia University and the James Madison Council of the Library of Congress. Lenfest was a leading supporter of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Drexel University, Franklin and Marshall College, the Fund for the Philadelphia School District, and dozens of programs for youth and underserved communities in and around Philadelphia and beyond. In October 2017, he and his wife, Marguerite, accepted the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy
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