David G. Mugar
David G. Mugar | |
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| Born | David Graves Mugar April 27, 1939 Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | January 25, 2022 (aged 82) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Education | Cambridge School of Weston |
| Alma mater | Babson College |
| Occupation(s) | Businessman, producer |
| Known for | Involvement with Boston's Fourth of July celebration |
| Children | 3 |
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David Graves Mugar (April 27, 1939 – January 25, 2022) was an Armenian-American businessman from Belmont, Massachusetts. He was a member of the Mugar family of Greater Boston. He was CEO and chair of Mugar Enterprises. His father, Stephen P. Mugar, was the founder of the Star Market supermarket chain and was also a major Boston-area philanthropist.
Life and career[edit]
Mugar was born on April 27, 1939.[1] He attended the Cambridge School of Weston and in 1962 graduated from Babson College.[2] The Mugar Omni Theater at Boston's Museum of Science was named after Mugar's parents, and Mugar was a museum trustee. Boston University's Mugar Memorial Library, the university's main study and research library, is named after his grandparents.[3]
Mugar worked as an executive producer of Boston's Fourth of July celebration—since the mid-1970s, closely associated with the Boston Pops concert at the Hatch Memorial Shell on the Esplanade—organized by the Boston 4 Celebrations Foundation,[4] a not-for-profit organization founded by Mugar.
In 2002, Mugar gave $5,000,000 for a new wing at the Cape Cod Hospital, in Hyannis, Massachusetts.[5]
In 2011, Mugar was entangled in controversy when it was discovered that the CBS national coverage of Boston's Fourth of July celebration included digitally-altered fireworks clips. During the broadcast, fireworks were seemingly exploding behind famous Boston landmarks, such as home plate at Fenway Park, the Massachusetts State House, and Faneuil Hall. A research scientist from Brighton, Massachusetts, Karl Clodfelter, and a computer programmer from Ostrander, Ohio, David Perry, noticed the geographical impossibility of these clips and alerted The Boston Globe. A front-page story in the newspaper on July 8, 2011, broke the story to the public.[6]
According to the Federal Election Commission, in 2011 Mugar donated $250,000 to Restore Our Future, Inc., the super PAC supporting Mitt Romney's presidential campaign.[7]
Mugar died on January 25, 2022, at the age of 82.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Kahn, Joseph P. (January 26, 2022). "David Mugar, philanthropist who added fireworks to Hub's July Fourth celebration, dies at 82". The Boston Globe. Retrieved January 26, 2022.
- ^ "Where Massachusetts' Wealthiest People Went to College". Boston Magazine. March 15, 2018. Retrieved November 27, 2019.
- ^ "About the BU Libraries » BU Libraries | Boston University". www.bu.edu.
- ^ "About Us". Boston 4 Celebrations Foundation. Archived from the original on June 14, 2007. Retrieved June 25, 2007.
- ^ Mark Mumford (August 16, 2002). "Mugar's munificence making a difference at hospital". Barnstable Patriot. Archived from the original on August 25, 2007. Retrieved June 25, 2007.
- ^ James H. Burnett III (July 8, 2011). "Boston gets a nonreality show". Boston.com.
- ^ "Schedule a for ALL Line #'s". query.nictusa.com. Archived from the original on July 13, 2012. Retrieved June 6, 2022.
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