Ruth altshuler biography
Ruth Collins Sharp Altshuler was an American philanthropist living in Dallas, Texas.
Ruth Collins Sharp Altshuler (1924 – December 8, 2017) was an American philanthropist living in Dallas, Texas....
Ruth Sharp Altshuler
American philanthropist (1924–2017)
Ruth Collins Sharp Altshuler (1924 – December 8, 2017) was an American philanthropist living in Dallas, Texas.
The Dallas Morning News wrote that she helped raise tens of millions of dollars for charity.[1] Altshuler was the first woman to serve or chair several boards, including the Salvation Army Dallas Advisory Board, the board of Goodwill Industries, and the chair of the Board of Trustees of Southern Methodist University.[2] She was also inducted into the Texas Woman's Hall of Fame.
Early life
Altshuler grew up in a mansion with her two brothers and parents in Dallas.[3] Her father, Carr Collins Sr., had founded the Fidelity Union Life Insurance Company in the 1920s.[4] Altshuler graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas, and spent her summers at an exclusive girls' camp in Texas Hill Country.[3] One of her brothers, James M.
Collins, would become a m