Henry W. Bloch
Henry Wollman Bloch (born July 30, 1922[1]) is the co-founder and (since 2000[1]) the chairman emeritus of H&R Block. Henry and his brother, Richard Bloch, founded H&R Block in 1955 in Kansas City, Missouri.
[edit] Personal life
Bloch was born in Kansas City. He attended Southwest High School, and was an undergraduate at University of Missouri–Kansas City and the University of Michigan, graduating from Michigan in 1944.[1] Through the Army Air Corps he received graduate training at the Harvard Business School.
Bloch and his wife Marion married in 1951 and live in the Kansas City metropolitan area.[1]
The Henry Wollman Bloch Memorial Fountain[2] in front of Union Station in Kansas City is named in his honor, as is Henry W. Bloch School of Management at the University of Missouri–Kansas City[3] and the Bloch Building, a major addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Mr. Bloch was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 2001.
Henry Bloch founded the H&R Block company with his brother Richard in 1955.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d Biography of Bloch from the H&R Block website
- ^ "City of Fountains - Find a Fountain". KCFountains.org. City of Fountains Foundation. http://www.kcfountains.org/find_fountain/displayfountain.asp?FID=170. Retrieved 2010-12-03.
- ^ About Henry Bloch from the UMKC Bloch School website
- ^ "H&R Block and founders had roots in Kansas City", Wichita Eagle and Kansas.com, April 26, 2010.
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