Joan Beverly Kroc (nÃÆ' Â © e Mansfield , formerly Smith ; August 27, 1928 - October 12, 2003), also known as Joni , is an American philanthropist. The third wife of McDonald's CEO, Ray Kroc, is also known for his involvement in McDonald's organization.
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Joan was born on August 27, 1928, at West St. Paul, Minnesota. His father, Charles Smart Mansfield, was a shopkeeper and then a railroad telegraph operator and a salesman. His mother, Gladys Bonnebelle Mansfield, was born 5 April 1906 in Luck, Wisconsin, to Herman Conrad Peterson and his wife Emma Bonnebelle. Mother Joan, a great violinist, studied music at the MacPhail School of Music in Minneapolis and began teaching at the age of 15.
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Marriage and family
In 1945, he married Rawland F. "Rollie" Smith, a naval veteran who will become a McDonald's franchisee, who eventually owns three stores in Rapid City, South Dakota. The sole child of the couple, a daughter named Linda, was born the following year.
Joan met the founder of McDonald's Corp., Ray Kroc while playing organ at Criterion Restaurant in St. Louis. Paul, Minnesota in 1957. Kroc said in his autobiography that he was "stunned by his blond beauty". However, they both are married. They met again at a McDonald's conference in 1969. Within six months they had divorced their spouses and married one another. Following the death of Kroc in 1984, he inherited his wealth.
Philanthropy
Joan's first philanthropic effort was Operation Cork in 1976 in La Jolla, California. It aims to inform doctors and other health workers about the dangers of alcoholism.
Ray and Joan Kroc have professional San Diego Padres baseball clubs. After Ray's death in 1984, he tried to donate the team to the city of San Diego (San Diego Padres went on to win the first National League banner of that year), but Baseball's Major League rules prohibit the ownership of the public team. Joan sold the team in 1990 and turned her attention to philanthropy. He drew the controversy when he alluded to paying the stars and the future of Ozzie Smith's Hall of Fame shortstop to defend his garden when he refused a pay raise by his team's general manager.
Joan B. Kroc Foundation donated $ 18.5 million to the San Diego Hospice Corporation (now known as San Diego Hospice and The Institute for Palliative Medicine) in 1985 to create a multipurpose hospice center. The donations include the cost of planning, land acquisition (6.5 hectares (26,000 m 2 )), interior construction and interior furnishings.
In 2002, Kroc Center, the large Salvation Army community center he helped to fund - up to $ 87 million - opened to the public. He then inherited an additional $ 1.6 billion to open the Kroc Salvation Army Center across the country, the largest one-time prize ever recorded. Several institutions in the San Diego area are named after him, including Joan B. Kroc's think tank for Peace and Justice at San Diego University, St. Vincent de Paul's Joan Kroc Center for Downtown Homeless and Kroc-Copley Animal Shelter in Morena District. The leading 'Peace' institution in America is probably the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, founded and endowed by Joan himself. Kroc prefers to donate anonymously, but accepting organizations often force to publish their prizes, hoping to attract new donors.
He also supports Ronald McDonald Children's Charities and Ronald McDonald Houses.
As the owner of Padres, he started the first employee assistance program of Major League Baseball for players and staff with drug problems.
Kroc is also politically active. In 1985, he spent millions of dollars to support nuclear disarmament, which included reprinting Missile Envy by Helen Caldicott, and publishing an advertisement in a major newspaper calling for disarmament. In response, Cal Thomas, a conservative syndicate columnist, called him "McNut."
He is well known to the citizens of Grand Forks, North Dakota and East Grand Forks, Minnesota, as "Angel" for his anonymous $ 15 million donation to help the cities after the devastating floods occurred there in 1997. He was revealed as a source of funds after journalists tracks the ownership of the jet he uses to fly into the area to survey damage.
After his death in 2003, a will of $ 225 million was made for National Public Radio (NPR) including $ 5 million for local public radio station, San Diego's KPBS.
Honor
Joan Kroc was inducted into the San Diego County Women's Hall of Fame in 2004 hosted by the California Women's Museum, the Women's Status Commission, the University of California, the San Diego Women's Center, and the San Diego University Women's Studies.
Death
Joan died of brain cancer on October 12, 2003, in Rancho Santa Fe, California, at age 75. She is buried at the El Camino Memorial Park in Sorrento Valley, San Diego.
Inheritance
His wishes included significant wills for a number of organizations.
- $ 1.6 billion for the Salvation Army
- $ 225 million for National Public Radio (including a $ 5 million will for KPBS mentioned below).
- $ 50 million to Joan B. Kroc University's Institute of Peace and Justice
- $ 50 million for Notre Dame University Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
- $ 20 million for San Diego Hospice & amp; Palliative Care (doing business as "San Diego Hospice and The Institute for Palliative Medicine")
- $ 10 million for the Zoological Society of San Diego, which manages the San Diego Zoo and San Diego Zoo Safari Park
- $ 5 million for public radio and television stations KPBS San Diego
Posthumous introduction
On August 25, 2009, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver announced that Kroc would become one of the 13 California Hall of Fame pioneers at the California Museum for a year. The induction ceremony was on December 1, 2009, in Sacramento, California. Kroc is also featured at the Museum "California Remarkable Women" exhibit, founded by Shriver in 2004.
In popular culture
Kroc is performed by actress Linda Cardellini in American biopic drama 2016 The Founder.
References
External links
- San Diego Union-Tribune obituary
- Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice - University of San Diego
- The Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame
- "Married Rich", San Diego Reader May 31, 2001 by Matt Potter
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