Herman Platt (1909–2005) was an American business executive and philanthropist.

Biography

Early life

Hermann Platt was born in 1909. His father, Benjamin Platt, was the founder of the Platt Music Corporation and co-founder of the

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Career

He served as the Chief Executive of the American retail chain,

Platt Music The Platt Music Corporation, founded by Benjamin Platt in 1905, was a national retailer. In 1984, Michael Glazer became chairman and chairman executive of Platt Music. Tom Bagan, president and COO of Chicago retail giant Marshall Field's Marsh ...

Corporation, until 1984 when he became Chairman of the Executive Committee.

Philanthropy

He was a key supporter of and fundraiser for

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a non-profit, Tertiary referral hospital, tertiary, 915-bed teaching hospital and multi-specialty academic health science centre, academic health science center located in Los Angeles, California. Part of the Cedars ...

, the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles, the Jewish Home for the Aging, the

City of Hope National Medical Center City of Hope is a private, non-profit clinical research center, hospital and graduate school located in Duarte, California, United States. The center's main campus resides on of land adjacent to the boundaries of Duarte and Irwindale, California ...

and the UCLA Foundation. He was also the President of Vista del Mar Charities. He served as the president of Sinai Temple from 1962 to 1964, after Edward Hyman. He was a co-founder of the

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. In 2005, Mount Sinai named its chapel and administrative buildings after Platt. Together with his wife, he endowed the Marjorie and Herman Platt Gallery on the campus of the American Jewish University.

Personal life

In 1946, he married Margie (née Cerf) Platt. They had one son, Kenneth Platt; and four daughters, Barbara Platt, Susan Platt Baggley, attorney Cynthia Platt Flagg, and producer Nancy Platt Arent Jacoby, as well as ten grandchildren."Lindsey Arent and Joshua Schank"
''The New York Times'', May 28, 2006. The Platt family has an archive at the UCLA library. The Benjamin Platt Papers (Collection 929) is located in the Department of Special Collections,

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, University of California, Los Angeles.

Death

He died in 2005 of natural causes.

References

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