Just finished speaking with my dad and all is well on the home front. My mother continues to have a brilliant time in London - a true trip of a lifetime for her!Dad sent me some pictures of a day we spent with Cyrus Eaton who, if you don't know, was perhaps one of the most influential men in our history - see below.
It got me to thinking about the things I could do to make this world a better place to live. Cyrus Eaton was an extraordinary leader who made a real difference to the lives of everyone - not just at the time he was alive but for future generations. He was a man who literally put his money where his mouth was and used it to explore the notions of peace on earth. Present day leaders should further explore the life of Cyrus Eaton - the quiet man from Pugwash Nova Scotia who changed the face of the world!
"One of the great things I hope to accomplish is to get people of different faiths, different nationalities and different tongues to get together and find they are actually brothers after all." รข€” Cyrus Eaton.
CYRUS EATON
financier and philanthropist - born in Pugwash, Nova Scotia
- graduated from McMaster University
- became active in public utilities in the US, 1906-1912
- organized Continental Gas and Electric Corporation
- became director of the Otis and Co. banking house in 1925
- became interested in the steel business, and after a series of mergers formed Republic Steel Corp.
- founded the Pugwash Intellectual Life Conference - and the International Pugwash Conferences of Nuclear Scientists in 1957 in the fifties and sixties, he advocated the then unpopular view that there should be increased diplomacy with Russia
- Lenin Peace Price, 1960
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- books include:
- Financial democracy (1941)
- The professor talks to himself (1942)
- A capitalist looks at labor (1947)
- Canada's choice (1959)
