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Joseph Haas |
(b Maihingen, 19 March 1879; d Munich, 30 March 1960). German composer. He was a pupil of Reger from 1904 and teacher in Stuttgart and Munich, where he strove, as president, to rebuild the Musikhochschule (1945-50). His works, including ‘folk oratorios’, Catholic masses and instrumental pieces, are popular music on the highest level.
| Wikipedia: Walter A. Haas |
Walter A. Haas, Sr. (May 111889 – December 71979) was a former President and Chairman of
Haas graduated with a BS degree from the UC Berkeley School of Business in 1910. He also earned an honorary degree from Berkeley in 1958. In 1989, the school was renamed the Haas School of Business in his honor. Haas had three children: Rhoda Haas Goldman, Peter E. Haas, and Walter A. Haas, Jr..
Haas served in the U.S. Army Field Artillery during World War I. A Republican, he was an alternate delegate to the 1952 Republican National Convention. He was Jewish, and served as president of the San Francisco Jewish Welfare Federation.
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